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.
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?
Bedtime Stories is a family comedy about Skeeter Bronson (Adam Sandler) whose life changes when the lavish bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew start to magically come true.
You Don’t Mess with the Zohan is a comedy about an Israeli hero named Zohan Dvir (played by Adam Sandler) who fakes his own death in order to achieve his own dream of becoming a hairstylist in New York.
Zohan Dvir is a Mossad agent that every Palestinians hate. While on vacation at Bat Yam beach, Zohan’s Hacky Sack prowess has attracted several women and capturing the attention of every beach-goer. He cooks fish in the nude using plentiful amount of hummus. As he finishes cooking, an Israeli Defense Forces helicopter arrives, taking him away from his well-earned vacation.
Zohan agrees to do another mission of recapturing a key Palestinian terrorist, the “Phantom” (John Turturro). When Zohan tells his parents about his desire to start a new life, his parents assume he would become an electronic store manager as every Israelis would. But when Zohan says he wants to become a hairstylist in New York City, his parents just laugh it off.
The dissatisfied Zohan fakes his own death during the pursuit of the Phantom, who is deceived into believing he had killed Zohan. Zohan smuggles himself into a flight to New York City in a pet crate of two dogs named Scrappy and Coco. Changing his hairstyle into a 1980s Paul Mitchell’s Avalon style, he lands his feet on New York City with a new alias, “Scrappy Coco”.
Initially, Zohan is unsuccessful at getting a job as a hairstylist in numerous salons. However, Zohan earns himself a place to stay when he saves Michael in the street.
As his fellow Israeli friend, Uri (Ido Mosseri) has recommended, Zohan attempts to land a job in a salon owns by a Palestinian woman named Dhalia (Emmanuelle Chriqui). In the beginning, Zohan only gets to sweep the floors for free. However, when Zohan manages to please a senior lady with a satisfying haircut and sex, Dhalia gives Zohan the freedom to roam freely. Zohan’s reputation becomes an instant hit, even Paul Mitchell personally invites Zohan to work for him but Zohan has rejected.
Eventually Zohan is recognized by a Palestinian cab driver called Salim (Rob Schneider), whose goat Zohan had stolen after Salim threw his shoe at Zohan and spit in his face. Salim tries to convince his friends to help him exact revenge on Zohan. They decide to build a handmade bomb, but they are unsure how to do so. Thinking that they need “chemicals,” Salim and his friends walk into a pharmacy and try to ask for liquid nitroglycerin, however, due to Salim’s mispronunciation, the pharmacist instead sells Salim with Neosporin. Finding that the Neosporin doesn’t destroy Zohan’s workplace, Salim reluctantly informs Phantom through a Hezbollah hotline. Phantom pays a visit to New York to hunt Zohan down after Salim threatens to reveal Phantom’s killing of Zohan is fake.
Zohan realizes that he has fallen in love with Dhalia when he discovers that he has unexplainable erectile dysfunction except during her presence. However, Dhalia rejects Zohan’s feelings for her after she finds out that he was formerly an Israeli counter-terrorist operative. Zohan decides to leave Dhalia and confront the Phantom. His fight is cut short with sudden news of the Middle Eastern block being attacked by white arsonists dressed in Arabic clothing. The arsonists are actually hired by Walbridge (Michael Buffer) to instigate an inter-ethnic riot between the Israelis and Palestinians so that he can take over their stores with less hassle.
When Zohan and Phantom work together to save the block, Dhalia shows up and reveals herself as the Phantom’s sister – or “Fattoush” as she calls him. Zohan’s personal dossier allows him to discover the arsonists’ true identities as rednecks hired by Walbridge. Zohan and Phantom lead the united Israelis and Palestinians of the block to save their shops, defeating the rednecks, thwarting Walbridge’s plans. The police arrive to arrest Walbridge for his crimes.
With the Israelis and the Palestinians united, the block is transformed into a mall, in which Zohan and Dhalia realize their dream, opening a joint beauty parlor. The Phantom also achieves his lifelong passion of opening up a shoe store. The movie ends happily as Zohan’s parents give him a surprise visit and approve of his new wife (Dhalia) and their hair salon, called “Dalohan”.
Overall, You Don’t Mess with the Zohan is a humorous movie with mostly lame jokes and involvement of many lewd situations.
Kung Fu Panda owns Adam Sandler’s You Don’t Mess With the Zohan as it earned an impressive $60 million during the opening weekend over Adam Sandler’s flick which earned just over $40 million.
For Kung Fu Panda, that blockbuster $60 mil opening ranked No. 9 on the all-time list of animated premieres, and it was the best yet for a non-sequel from DreamWorks Animation (only Shrek 2 and Shrek the Third banked more on their first weekends). It was almost parallel with the $60.1 mil that Pixar’s Cars bowed with on this weekend a couple of years ago.
What do you get when you put two comedians into one movie? You get a movie that is way too hilarious sometimes it doesn’t seem any funny as it is. In "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry", Adam Sandler and Kevin James (of The King of Queens fame) acted as husband and husband, though, in many occasions, everyone refers Sandler as the wife.
Chuck Levine (played by Adam Sandler) and Larry Valentine (Kevin James) are firefighters and very good friends. Larry’s a widower with two kids while Chuck is single and a big-time womanizer. One day, while on a rescue mission, Chuck playfully dares Larry to eat a dead rat, but Chuck falls from the ladder that he is going to the drop the rat from. Larry saves Chuck but the two are rushed to the hospital and quickly recover. Larry calls in that favor big time when civic red tape prevents him from naming his two kids as his pension beneficiaries. All that Chuck has to do is claim to be Larry’s domestic partner on some city forms. They think it will be easy because nobody will ever know.
After Larry becomes worried after an initial visit from an officer. They then go to consult Alex McDonough (Jessica Biel), a super hot lawyer as Larry is worried he’ll get caught for cheating government’s money.
Alex suggests that Chuck and Larry get married officially in Canada. After Chuck agrees to the ruse, the two men go to Niagara Falls in Canada to get married. As time goes on, an official named Clinton Fitzer from the city council keeps popping up in their neighborhood suspiciously while Larry and Chuck tries to fend him off continuously. As the movie goes on, Chuck and Larry are brought to the court to face justice by Clinton Fitzer. Will Chuck and Larry be able to defend their lies? Watch the movie to find out!
Overall, this is a somewhat funny movie with a lot of slapsticks that are related to gays and lesbians. Sometimes, the movie may seems a little offensive to the gay community. Or maybe not. It’s fun to watch, just don’t watch it with your kids.
We all know Adam Sandler’s a funny man. And we all know that Kevin James from the sitcom ‘The Kings of Queens’ is equally amusing. What about a movie with both of these nutheads in it – playing husband and wife? Whoa, that’s inane!
