Bedtime Stories (2008) 8/10

Starring : Adam Sandler, Keri Russell, Guy Pearce, Russell Brand
Director : Adam Shankman
Running Time : 100 mins

Skeeter Bronson (Sandler) is a handyman at his late father’s hotel, and is given the opportunity to run one of his own if he can come up with a good enough theme for the new hotel. Following a series of seeming coincidences, he becomes convinced that his niece and nephew can control his reality through their bedtime stories and tries to use them to improve his life.

This is a great children’s story, but many adults probably wouldn’t appreciate it. The idea is simple, yet sort of moves between being coincidence and miracle so that it’s hard to tell which the writers are aiming for. Pearce is just campy enough as the requisite villain, with Lucy Lawless backing him up all the way, but the plot development is a little too obvious to keep adult audiences entertained for long. All in all, a great movie for the young.

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