The Disney movie Bed Time Stories is a comedy directed by Adam Shankman and the leading role is played by Adam Sandler. The movie has received a wide variety of ratings from a zero to a 75. Altogether its rating on metacritic.com is 33%. The story is about a man who is babysitting his sister's kids for a week and has to tell them bedtime stories to get them to go to sleep. These bedtime stories magically become reality for Skeeter (Adam Sandler).
Joe Morgenstern of the Wall Street Journal gave the movie a big fat zero. He feels that this movie does not live up to the children's movies that are normally created by Disney. Although this movie is rated PG and directed towards a young audience it contains the crude humor we are used to seeing from films with Adam Sandler. This film is not the wholesome family entertainment it was advertised to be.
This movie received another poor rating from Peter Travers of the Rolling Stone Magazine. He felt that the movie earned a rating of only 25 out of a 100. Again, the major disappointment of this movie was found in the lead part played by Adam Sandler. Travers uses a quote by Sandler in the movie to sum up how he felt about Adam Sandler's acting as well as the entire movie; "I'm like stink on your feet - I'll always be there."
The movie also receive a mixed review of 50%. This rating was given by Michael Phillips from the Chicago Tribune. He thought although the movie had the normal crudeness and unnecessary cleavage of a normal Adam Sandler film it was not dominated by the comedy. Instead it dutifully delivered a more meaningful message of how a man's life filled with constant disappointment was able to escape it through these stories where anything could happen. Again the movie was safe enough to have the Disney label, but it is more suitable for an older audience.
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times had a different take on the film when giving it a rating of 63. He felt that it was a "harmless and pleasant Disney comedy." Although he thinks that this film would be appealing to kids of all ages, he did not feel it was really that entertaining. It definitely had its funny moments in this unlikely story where anything can happen and just about anything and everything does happen. This movies shows that all you need to do is believe and anything can happen.
The last and best review received was given by Jonathan Curiel from the San Francisco Chronicle. He gave the film a 75, feeling that Adam Sandler made a pretty successful attempt at a type of comedy he is not really used to. Sandler plays a safe role, one of which he hopes his children will watch someday and "be able to look [him] in the eye" afterwards. Curiel felt this movie definitely did not have the cutting-edge Sandler that landed him on Saturday Night Live. Rather it was a more conserved comedian "trying to inspire a new generation of Adam Sandler fans." Although it was not the performance we are used to seeing from him, he played a good part which appealed to a younger audience.
Altogether the movie is not considered especially enjoyable by any of the critics, but felt that it could be a entertaining movie for children between the ages of 6 and 10. Most of the movie is focused on Adam Sandler which is normally how it is when he is in a film. This movie does not seem like it would be the best choice when choosing what to watch for family night, but is a glimpse of the new Adam Sandler and his hopeful career in kid-friendly movies.
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