Bedtime Stories

About two weeks ago on the Movie Network the movie Bedtime Stories was on for the first time. It is a Disney film about how the bedtime stories that Adam Sandler tells his niece and nephew come true the next day. It is a good movie for families to watch, it is funny and has action and really good bedtime stories.

Skeeter played by Adam Sandler was asked by his sister to watch her kids for a week when she went to Arizona to apply for a new job. So every night Skeeter would tell his niece, Bobby, and his nephew, Patrick, a story, just like Skeeter's father did for him. The main character in all of these stories was Skeeter. Every time that Skeeter would tell a story the kids would make up the ending, like during the first story the kids said that the story ending with is raining gumballs. When Skeeter was driving home from work the next day gumballs started to fall from the sky and he realized that the kids control the story and what happen to him. So Skeeter tries to get the kids to end the story with the with something really good happening to Skeeter, because his life at the time was really bad. The kids imaginations worked differently the Skeeters though, when they would say something Skeeter would see it differently in his head than they did, so what he thought was going to happen to him would work a bit differently. An example being when Patrick said that Abe Lincoln was going to show up Skeeter thought that the actual guy was going to be there, but instead an American penny fell on his head.

I thought that the idea of the kids controlling the stories was a good idea because the are innocent and Skeeter was trying to make the stories make his life better. Another good part of the movie was the end when Skeeter was racing through the city on a motorcycle and the clip kept cutting to Skeeter's characters in the stories he told racing through their own worlds, i thought that was really cool. I though that the idea of Skeeter being overlooked his entire life was not very original because a lot Disney movies have a hero who is under appreciated, like William Turner in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Aladdin or Hercules. And of course the Disney movie ending with all of the heroes of the movie living happily ever after. I would give Bedtime Stories a rating of 3 out of 5.