Blog Review: Bedtime Stories

Director: Adam Shankman
Producers: Adam Sandler, Andrew Gunn, and Jack Giarraputo
Written by: Matt Lopez and Tim Herlihy
Starring: Adam Sandler

Bedtime Stories is another comedy starring Adam Sandler that is a family oriented film. Adam Sandler has always done comedy and in this film he tries to show his acting skills by doing a family oriented film but of course it has a lot of comedy in it just like all of his films.

This film is about Skeeter Bronson (Adam Sandler) who is a hotel handyman. His sister Wendy (Courteney Cox) asks him to watch her kids due to problems at work. After meeting the kids and starting to get them to fall asleep, they ask him to read them a bedtime story so he makes a story up about a medieval squire and as he goes through the story, the kids add their own opinions as to what happens. They come up with gumballs start raining and the story ends after some concluding thoughts. Little does Skeeter know though that this little add on to the story come true in real life and Skeeter decides he is going to try and make this help out his current situation. After attempting to try and make a free Ferrari appear, he comes to the conclusion that the kids are the ones that have the powers so he attempts to make them make his wishes.

Even though this film is about family more then Adam Sandler’s typical comedy film, it still retains a lot of aspects from most of his films. Almost every film he plays in, he is the underdog and has to find a way to come out on top and does in the goofiest way. There are a lot of aspects of the types of film in this and when it really comes down to whether he did show that he could act in different types of films or not, some would have to say the latter of the two. He should just try to stick with what people love him for instead of trying to broaden his range of acting.

After everything is said and done with, I would recommend anyone to go out and see this movie. It really is interesting and I haven’t seen another movie like it in a long time. I really did like how creative the kids were in the film and it really made the film interesting and funny.