Easily one of the most overrated movies of the year.

This was an enjoyable family movie. My son loved the much maligned Bugsy. It was nice to see, for once, a pretty CLEAN kids movie. It's unfortunate that Hollywood can't let kids movies just be for the kids - there are certainly plenty for us adults to see on our own.

Marty Feldman died in 1982 at the age of 49. "Bedtime Stories" pays homage to the bug-eyed comic actor by displacing Feldman's signature feature onto a guinea pig. This lame, alleged comedy shares with Darren Aronofsky's misunderstood "The Fountain", a diegesis informed by the laws of Buddhism, as evidenced by the rodent with Marty Feldman eyes. Reincarnation( the recycling of souls) is an eastern belief that finds puerile expression in "Bedtime Stories", when Skeeter Bronson(Adam Sandler) and the people from his current life appear together, over and over again, across different epochs in time. The same story, boy proves his love for girl through the performance of a heroic deed, gets recycled for its timelessness. Regardless of genre, the story works. "Bedtime Stories" posits storytelling as Buddhist in nature, after all, each story has been told before in some other form. It has structural similarities: a formula. People are recycled. Plots are recycled. "Bedtime Stories" performs an alchemy on the imagination by recasting Buddhism as an avenging god who killed all the Greek muses. If this commingling of disciplines(religion and the arts) had an origin story, a bedtime story, ahem, it would have film theorist Robin Wood writing his article on genre theory("Ideology, Genre, Auteur") under a bodhi tree. In one scene, "Bedtime Stories" seems to refute Christianity as the film practices its religion by recycling Paul Thomas Anderson's frogs in "Magnolia". This time it's gumballs; this time it's not a miracle. The gumball sequence shows how every miracle can be undermined by a logical explanation. While the film challenges the hegemony of the dominant ideology, it doesn't change the fact that the story itself is tired and worn out, you know, recycled. Maybe god is a truly original screenplay. Maybe god doesn't exist.… Expand

First, i would like to say that zt just committed plagerism by copy/paste the "wall st. journal" review. Second, this movie is the lowest most unfunny form of funny that you can imagine. It aloso SHOULD NOT be titled as a disney movie.

Adam Sandler seems he is the comedy king who will do anything, whether the script is good or not, he takes it; This is probably the rare "Bust" movie that was developed by Disney pictures. Oh, it even fails as a kids movie. Defining a kid movie, in age, is about 4-9, maybe age 10. But i can only say this would only become a "wow" to a 1 year old. This is Disaster Movie all over again, except its little kid friendly, but yet it fails. Maybe it's the lack of creativity, or maybe it's so unrealistic that we can't seem to put it to our imagination. The only good thing about this movie is if you (i am talking to ages 6+) have a hard time falling asleep, "BEDTIME STORIES" kicks in. So, the positives? [really the negatives] 1. It makes you fall asleep BORING 2. Audience 10+ will get great laughs from the werid plot and script, seriously, if you want REALLY REALLY GOOD LAUGHS (not the good ones in critisim), then..... watch this Weird, unthinkable, Illegal for all ages movie. Illegal for all ages means a movie is so bad, but it can be good if you want a laugh.… Expand

It was a cute movie for kids and for adults can be boaring at times.

An enjoyable escape for a family film.

Hilarious throughout, even for a family film.

Perfectly good Adam Sandler movie; not his best but also not deserving of the critical panning. If you've liked his other under-rated films, you'll like this one.

Appallingly bad - I don't even know what to say.

Hilarious family entertainment. This film is a gem.

That the critics panned this movie doesn't surprise me. I have mental block whenever I try to imagine a movie critic laughing. For those who like to laugh, this is good medicine. My family (who don't take themselves too seriously) laughed out loud with the rest of the cinema. Thanks go to Adam and Co for making us laugh again.

Very funny, and a little bit moving at times, this movie is entertaining and enjoyale, and in my opinion, there's nothing negatie about it at all.

Imaginative, as well as disappointing. They could have done a lot more with the story. Adam Sandler displays his usual inane not very funny style of humor. Some good effects, expectantly fine production from Disney. Overall, it's fair.

Not half as bad a most of the stuff my 9 year old makes me go see. It was pretty good

Maybe one needs to see this movie with their kids to appreciate it, but we really enjoyed it. My boys aged 7 and 10 laughed all the way through it, and the audience clapped at the end.

A surprisingly fun and imaginative family film. The overused "divorced mom" sideplot was a unnecessary and the ending was somewhat bland, but Adam Sandler was really fun to watch throughout (wow, did I really just say that?), and the blending of fantasy and reality was shockingly restrained, and all the better for that.

An enjoyable Adam Sandler movie, much, much better than his previous 2008 movie, Zohan. Yes it may be geared towards kids, but I'm an adult, and I still laughed!

A really great movie, one I recommend for fans of comedies, it's absolutely hilarious movie, it is surprisingly enjoyable for adults too, if you like Adam Sandler and want to see him in a not so dirty movie, than this is for you.

Bedtime Stories is a classic! Absolutely hilarious and a fantastic family film. I find the overall rating ridiculous, it should be a lot higher. It's very imaginative and very clever, great for children.

i saw this movie back when it came out. and i enjoyed it. this movies is mostly a kids movie but its still pretty good. and actually better than most of adam sandlers newest movies....

Believe me, its a lot smarter than most of the movies from Adam Sandler and its actually family friendly unlike a lot of movies from Sandler.