Bedtime Stories… yes, it’s another review

It was Angel’s birthday, and as I promised, I took her to a movie together with Ralph Emerson and Edgar Allan. Her choice was Bedtime Stories starring Adam Sandler and am I glad of her choice.

All I can say is WOW! The movie is full of metaphors, similes and other figuratively written dialogues. Personally, the movie was a treat for me. A fantasy movie which really tried so hard to put logic in its real world part.

As you may already know by now, Skeeter (Sandler) tells his nephew and niece made-up bedtime stories. And these came true in his life, which Skeeter tried to use to his advantage. He learned later that it was not him, but the kids creative interruptions which made the stories come to life.

Quite a tall order, but Skeeter’s cleverness allowed him to convince the kids to say what he wants to happen… or did he?

Like I said, while the movie dwells on fantasy and make believe, things don’t just happen to Skeeter in real life without logic. An example – how would it suddenly rain gumballs? You wouldn’t believe it.

A long hauler truck carrying a load of packed gumballs suddenly turned its long haul upside down while on a bridge, causing the gumballs to ‘rain’ down. Coincidentally, Skeeter was under the bridge and the gumballs fell on him. Clever!

And in the last story, it was Skeeter’s paranoia that actually made him ‘caught fire‘ as the kids suddenly inserted in the last part of his bedtime story. Another clever metaphor unleashed.

Although the movie lost a bit of credibility in the ‘hokey-pokey’ portion and in the last part where Skeeter suddenly talked to the narrator which was his dead father.

Still, it was great movie. One that I really enjoyed. Great story, great script, great dialogue.

In one sitting, you already watched a medieval, western, and futuristic movie. So despite the flaw in the solution of final conflict, you won’t complain.

I had no regrets. I had great time.

By the way, this is a Disney Movie.

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