After sitting through this fractious fairy tale, we feel as plucked as a Christmas goose.
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12/29/08
Bedtime Stories (2008)
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Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:6
Rotten:19
Average Rating:4.7/10
Consensus: Though it may earns some chuckles from pre-teens, this kid-friendly Adam Sandler comedy is uneven, poorly paced, and lacks the requisite whimsy to truly work.
Theatrical Release:Dec 25, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $109,993,847
Synopsis: Having promised to make a film his own kids could enjoy, Adam Sandler (YOU DON'T MESS WITH THE ZOHAN) delivers the goods in the charming fairy tale BEDTIME STORIES. As the film opens we meet Marty... [More]
Starring: Adam Sandler, Guy Pearce, Keri Russell, Richard Griffiths
Director: Adam Shankman
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Reviews for Bedtime Stories
Top CriticAn innocuous but haphazard family comedy that seems less crafted for children than dreamed up by a team of them.
12/29/08
Top CriticFor a creative premise, it's downright dispiriting to see such a banal interpretation.
12/29/08
Top CriticIt's a delightfully innocent movie that the actor can actually show to his two baby daughters without blushing.
12/29/08
Top CriticRichard Griffiths best gets the antic spirit of this enterprise, relishing his multiple roles as Sandler's phobic boss and several fantasy characters.
12/29/08
Top CriticI didn’t like one part of this movie.
12/29/08
Top CriticIt’s a sweet kids movie and I commend Sandler for trying something different in his career.
12/29/08
Top CriticIf you listen carefully to the strains of 'When You Wish Upon a Star' during the Disney corporate intro, you may hear Walt moaning in his grave.
12/29/08
Top CriticFor prepubescent kids, Bedtime Stories will be a perfectly enjoyable work -- a PG-rated introduction to a heralded comic actor trying to inspire a new generation of Adam Sandler fans.
12/29/08
Top CriticIn Bedtime Stories the pain of this artistic limbo is written all over Adam Sandler's character, a resentful hotel handyman named Skeeter.
12/25/08
Top CriticWhen it comes to holiday tales, it would be best to reread The Night Before Christmas rather than waste time or money on Bedtime Stories.
12/24/08
Top CriticJudged as a piece of family entertainment, it's too haphazard and poorly paced to satisfy viewers too young to have ever attended a kegger.
12/24/08
Top CriticSloppy, choppy, and saved by an affably low-key and typically sophomoric Sandler performance.
12/24/08
Top CriticThose other Adam Sandler comedies? Turns out they were the grown-up efforts.
12/24/08
Top CriticBedtime Stories champions imagination while having too little originality itself.
12/24/08
Top CriticThe new Disney movie Bedtime Stories presents a taste test for moviegoers: Do you prefer your Adam Sandler regular strength or in the new mild format?
12/24/08
Top CriticIt's a dispirited, galumphing mess in which Sandler, as a hotel handyman who spins out tall tales for his niece and nephew, pictures himself in assorted historical-kitsch guises.
12/24/08
Top CriticBedtime Stories is not my cup of tea. Even the saucer. Fairness requires me to report, however, that it may appeal to, as they say, 'kids of all ages.'
12/24/08
Top CriticBedtime Stories is baloney on Wonder Bread with a Kraft Single and some Miracle Whip -- barely lunchable.
12/24/08
Top CriticThe novelization of the screenplay probably would make a pretty decent bedtime story.
12/24/08
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December 23, 2008:
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December 23, 2008:
There is one big Sandler moment, when he discovers how to use a sandwich to brush his teeth. But I'll pass on the Cinderfella part, where instead of shoes, he promises to stick around 'like the stink on your feet.' Nose clips, please. 
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