Bedtime Stories is a fantasy-comedy movie starring Adam Sandler as Skeeter Bronson. Skeeter Bronson’s dad, Martin runs a hotel business, everything was fine except that Skeeter’s dad has poor financial management until his hotel business is bought over by Barry Notthingham (Richard Griffiths) who promises Martin, he will let Skeeter runs his chain of hotels when he grows up.
SPOILER WARNING: Plot and/or ending details follow.
Adam Sandler and Teresa Palmer in "Bedtime Stories"
Skeeter Bronson is only a handyman in a hotel runs by Barry despite his promise to Skeeter’s dad. Barry has a new business plan to build a huge hotel on a site currently occupied by a school. Skeeter’s hope fade away when Barry announces that Kendall (Guy Pearce) will be the General Manager of the new hotel instead of him. Also, Kendall has started a new relationship with Barry’s daughter, Violet (Teresa Palmer).
Skeeter’s sister, Wendy (Courtney Cox) loses her job as the school principal as the school has to close down. Wendy plans to go out of town for a week and asks Skeeter to take care of her kids at night while her friend, Jill (Keri Russell) will take care of them in the morning. When the bedtime stories Skeeter tells his nephew and niece become true the next day, he attempts to take advantage of it and make up outlandish tale so he can make a fortune out of it only to realize only the kids can make the story comes true.
His fortune changes when he is given a shot at running the new hotel when Barry gets him and Kendall to present him a new theme for the new hotel on his birthday party. Skeeter moves in to the hotel to fully focus on his presentation and the kids move in with him as well. Mickey (Russell Brand), Skeeter’s waiter friend also occasionally drops in.
Skeeter tells a tale of him getting a free red Ferrari (in the dream, it’s a red horse named Ferrari) and his niece adds that he will save a damsel in distress and while the damsel tries to kiss him, an angry dwarf kicks him and even before the next day, he hurriedly goes out to the Ferrari’s showroom only to get his wallet stolen. But he manages to save Violet from the paparazzi and she almost gives him a kiss except that an angry dwarf really appears and kicks him.
Skeeter wants his last bedtime story to depict him beating Kendall to the General Manager position at Barry’s birthday party and even though his wishes come true, his fears of getting killed by a big fireball had him uses the fire extinguisher on Barry’s birthday cake which gets him fired.
He loses not only his job but his trust from Jill, who is upset over the news that the hotel’s new location will be on Patrick and Bobbi’s elementary school. When the narrator tells Skeeter he still has hope, he dashes to the land office to stop Barry from demolishing the school. So happen, the person in charge in the land office is his old schoolmate and Barry’s application to build a new hotel over the school has been denied. Cleverly, Skeeter gets Barry a new location in Santa Monica’s beach, which was previously rejected. Barry and Skeeter then hug each other despite the fact that Barry’s afraid of contacting germs.
Skeeter gets to run a successful but low-rise beach hotels where Kendall and Aspen (Lucy Lawless) are the waiter and room cleaner respectively. Whereas Barry disposes his hotel line to go into health services and Mickey dates Violet and becomes the 9th richest man in the world.
Overall, Bedtime Stories is a funny family film which tells a tale that dreams do come true and even not all stories have a happy ending, sometimes, it’s up to one’s course of action. Bedtime stories, anyone?
My ratings: 7 out of 10.
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the movie seems to be good nad fun to watch i think it will be a valentine attraction and might do really well
it is doin really well i really happy wit the movie ………..
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