Bedtime Stories: Critic Reviews

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MovieWeb: 10 reviews

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RottenTomatoes: 107 reviews

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

17

It'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.
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Jeannette Catsoulis New York Times (Top Critic)

30

In Bedtime Stories the pain of this artistic limbo is written all over Adam Sandler's character, a resentful hotel handyman named Skeeter.
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Peter Bradshaw Guardian [UK] (Top Critic)

40

There's a surface liveliness to the movie, but it has that plasticky Disney quality and lack of real heart.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Claudia Puig USA Today (Top Critic)

50

When it comes to holiday tales, it would be best to reread The Night Before Christmas rather than waste time or money on Bedtime Stories.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Dan Kois Washington Post (Top Critic)

An innocuous but haphazard family comedy that seems less crafted for children than dreamed up by a team of them.
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Wesley Morris Boston Globe (Top Critic)

50

Bedtime Stories is baloney on Wonder Bread with a Kraft Single and some Miracle Whip -- barely lunchable.
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Joe Neumaier New York Daily News (Top Critic)

40

Bedtime Stories champions imagination while having too little originality itself.
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Joe Morgenstern Wall Street Journal (Top Critic)

If 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.
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Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

63

Bedtime 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.'
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Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

50

Bedtime Stories is clean enough to fly the Walt Disney Pictures flag, yet it's full of bimbos and cleavage and shots of Adam Sandler getting kicked in the shins by a dwarf.
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Andrea Gronvall Chicago Reader (Top Critic)

Richard Griffiths best gets the antic spirit of this enterprise, relishing his multiple roles as Sandler's phobic boss and several fantasy characters.
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Steven Rea Philadelphia Inquirer (Top Critic)

63

Sloppy, choppy, and saved by an affably low-key and typically sophomoric Sandler performance.
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Daniel Getahun Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top Critic)

75

It's a delightfully innocent movie that the actor can actually show to his two baby daughters without blushing.
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Arizona Republic (Top Critic)

50

The novelization of the screenplay probably would make a pretty decent bedtime story.
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Lael Loewenstein Variety (Top Critic)

Sandler has delivered on his promise to make a movie his kids can enjoy. What's more, he's managed to do so without alienating his core audience.
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Kyle Smith New York Post (Top Critic)

25

Those other Adam Sandler comedies? Turns out they were the grown-up efforts.
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Roger Moore Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

40

Box-office commodity Adam Sandler is repositioned as kid-friendly in Bedtime Stories, a Disney movie that plays better on a balance sheet than a screen.
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Jason Anderson Toronto Star (Top Critic)

50

Judged as a piece of family entertainment, it's too haphazard and poorly paced to satisfy viewers too young to have ever attended a kegger.
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Liam Lacey Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

50

The 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?
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James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

50

For a creative premise, it's downright dispiriting to see such a banal interpretation.
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Kirk Honeycutt Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

In a modern-day fairy tale about hopes, aspirations and family, Sandler displays a winning form under the light and mischievous direction of Bringing Down the House's Adam Shankman.
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Christy Lemire Associated Press (Top Critic)

Harmless, sure -- but also needless.
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Richard Corliss TIME Magazine (Top Critic)

After sitting through this fractious fairy tale, we feel as plucked as a Christmas goose.
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Peter Travers Rolling Stone (Top Critic)

25

The shortage of wit and the excess of goo can be summed up in Sandler's line to these children of divorce: 'I'm like the stink on your feet -- I'll always be there.'
Full Review » 3 years ago
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

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