I think this was one of the best films of 2008. If you have kept up with my blog you know that I have seen a lot of movies this year, and to be completely honest I haven't written about most of the movies I have seen.
I know there has been a lot of talk about Bedtimes Stories not being so good. I respectfully disagree. I loved it.
I think it is harder to do clean comedy. In the heady times of the Apatow era that we are living in, the audience might be looking for 'adult' comedy of sex jokes, bad words, and gross-out humor. Bedtime Stories stars Adam Sandler who appeals highly to the 10 to 13 old boy crowd, and now the age range just got lower. This movie seems to be made to try to recreate the magic of Night at the Museum of a couple years ago, which was a wonderful movie that put adult comedy stars to make a clean kids movie, and somehow came out with really good family.
The story is quite simple. Adam Sandler finds himself working as a handyman in a Los Angeles hotel. His estranged sister asked him to babysit her two children while she goes to a job interview in Arizona, because the school, which she is the principle, is being torn down. She raises her kids without such good things as T.V. and sugar.
In Sandler fashion, he plays a blue-collar hero that doesn't get along with the snobby people he encounters. He takes on his new job as baby-sitter without qualms. He likes the kids and the kids feelings are mutual. The conflict comes in two folds. The owner of hotel sets up a competition with the snobby villain to see who will run the next big hotel in his company. The next conflict is that he doesn't get a along with his sister's pretty friend who is also looking after the kids, who is a bit of perpetually exasperated eco-enthusiastic, Felicity. I mean Kari Russell.
Sandler starts telling bedtime stories to get the kids to go to bed, and he finds out that stories come true the next day. Of course, his stories are narcissistic self involved hero stories about himself.
Sandler is helped by his friend Micky who is played by Russel Brand; who you might remember from Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
Bedtime stories is a charming comedy. Totally clean,and totally funny.
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