Monday, May 11, 2009

Monday’s Movie: Bedtime Stories

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I invite everybody to participate in the weekly MEME and write about any movies, television or big screen, that you’ve seen over the past week and write about it.  Please feel free to use the above logo photo in your post and/or link back to the site.  I will post every Sunday Night or Monday Morning on the movie I’ve seen from the past week.  I’m hoping that there are other movie buffs out there who will enjoy the MEME as much as I’m hoping to!  The only small request that I have is that you rate the movie out of 5 bags of popcorn (so, 1 bag out of 5, 2 bags out of 5, and so on). 

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Movie:  Bedtime Stories

Starring:  Adam Sandler, Keri Russell, Guy Pearce, Courteney Cox, Russell Brand, Lucy Lawless, Jonathan Pryce, Teresa Palmer, Richard Griffiths

Genre:  Comedy/Family/Fantasy

Runtime: 99 Minutes

MPAA Rating:  PG

Directed By: Adam Shankman

Happy Mother’s Day was an early dinner, a couple of games of Sequence with the twins and then we rented Bedtime Stories.  A few minutes into the movie, I was snoring away on the couch.

But, wait! 

After I wake up from a long evening nap and the girls go to bed, I start the movie back up.  It was DELIGHTFUL!  I thought it was a terrific family movie and it had everything in it that you could possibly hope for (for kids and parents). 

This movie reminded me, a bit, of The Princess Bride, but more “modern day.”  In other ways it was a bit like Night At The Museum.  This movie had adventure, fantasy, good vs. evil, romance, and humor.  I enjoyed the movie so much that I found myself giggling aloud while I watched it. 

The characters were terrific and I thought the casting for this movie was perfect.  I loved the guinea pig, “Bugsy” (so cute).   Adam Sandler is ideal for playing “the funny uncle” and I think his talent was well applied to this role.  

Overall, this movie was good, clean fun.   Disney & Sandler’s production team hit a home run with this movie.  Out of 5 bags of popcorn, genre family… I give this:

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