Skeeter Bronson (Adam Sandler) works at a hotel as a janitor and has a low life. After spending half his life cleaning toilets and doing mundane work, he gets a shot at baby-sitting when his sister offers him to look after her kids.
What's not: Sandler seems to have lost his charm of late. Even in his last release (You Don't Mess With The Zohan) he struggled through the script banking on slapstick rather than edgy dialogues which were his forte. Here he seems lost in spinning stories where he looks way out of place. The special effects are average and don't really impress you in places they should. Courteney Cox is wasted in a shoddy role as Skeeter's sister. Guy Pearce who gave us Memento and LA Confidential is reduced to a half-baked caricature as Sandler's main enemy.
What to do: Lacking the technical suave of today's digital effects, Bedtime Stories is reduced to passable fare thanks to the lack of a solid script and performances that hardly impress.
Bedtime Stories
**
Dir: Adam Shankman
Cast: Adam Sandler, Courteney Cox, Guy Pearce
