Bedtime Stories – “Now that was a really cute movie!”
Bedtime Stories – “Now that was a really cute movie!”
Rated: PG Time: 1:39
Stars: Adam Sandler, Courtney Cox Arquette, Keri Russell, Teresa Palmer and others
Final Grade: B+
Summary: Hey, I didn’t make that quote up. That and applause was heard after the movie in the theater I attended it in. And, I after to agree!
Our story starts out with one Skeeter Bronson(Sandler) seeing the hotel that was his father’s dream and the family business sold out due to failing financial environments. But, Skeeter is promised a job with the new hotel and soon establishes his career as a maintenance man with the hotel. But his luck is about to turn.
His single parent sister Wendy(Arquette) is about to lose her job as principal at the local elementary school and is asking him to help her friend Jill(Russell) keep an eye on the kids while she travels for a job interview. Well, the kids have been raised on eating bean sprouts, pine nuts, tofu and living the lifestyle that would make Euell Gibbons and Al Gore(when he’s not busy calculating his own carbon footprint) very proud – but it’s a life that’s very sheltered and boring. Skeeter is about to introduce them to life, hamburgers, TV and a few other things. In tern, they’re going to change his life a bit.
I’m not going to give a lot of the details because it could ruin the movie for you, and I really don’t want to do that. Suffice it to say that the kids are now being introduced to bedtime stories, Skeeter style. The interesting thing is that what the kids add to the story at night appears to come to fruition the next day. Quickly learning how this game is working, Skeeter tries to manipulate them into fixing up his social life and help him take over the management of his father’s former hotel. The tidbits that the kids add to the nightly stories are as hilarious as they are eclectic. But the suspense mounts as their evening stories create a competition for the new management position of the new hotel and Skeeter has to figure out how it all plays out.
Frankly, it’s good to see one of the former Friends folks making a movie this weekend that I can take my kid to without any reservations or qualifications and she have a good time. My 11 year old and the audience loved it. And I think your kids and you will as well.
I’m Don Rima, and that’s the way I saw it, From Where I Stand.
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