“Until Gravity Do Us Part”, “To All The Little People”, “It’s Bugsy”, gag reel, deleted scenes, previews, DVD copy of the film ---

I hate Adam Sandler. Or more to the point, I hate most of his films because quite frankly they are idiotic. They don’t age well unless you’re trapped in a time warp. That said, I liked “Bedtime Stories” quite a bit because it doesn’t feature the endless juvenile humor that dominates most of Sandler’s films. He’s got an appealing presence on screen and can be quite funny in the right vehicle. Luckily “Bedtime Stories” IS the right vehicle for Sandler. ***

Sandler plays Skeeter Bronson (what’s with the name of the characters he plays?) the son of Marty Bronson (played all too briefly by Jonathan Pryce and providing narration) who established one of the most popular motels in Los Angeles. Down on his luck Marty has to sell his motel to Barry Nottingham (Richard Griffiths) but extracts a promise from the hotel mogul ; to give his son Skeeter the chance to run one of the Nottingham hotels himself someday. Now Skeeter finds himself a repair technician at his father’s old revamped and upgraded motel. When Skeeter’s sister asks him to watch her kids in the evening (her friend Jill played by Keri Russell) because of a job interview in Arizona (in a timely plot twist she’s been laid off), he discovers the fantastic bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew come true. In competition for the manager’s job against Kendall (Guy Pearce) the manager of the front desk, Skeeter decides to use these bedtime stories to help him win the Nottingham’s daughter (played by Teresa Palmer), improve his life and gain the manager’s job at the new hotel. ---

Image & Sound:

“Bedtime Stories” looks as colorful as a kid’s candy coated dream. Colors pop in a rich looking transfer with great fine detail and solid blacks. Audio sounds quite good as well with a nice 5.1 track that uses the surround speakers very well particularly during the fantasy sequences of the film.

The Blu-ray version of the film like other recent Disney releases comes with a standard DVD which is nice for families that make long drives during vacations or holidays. Heck, it comes in handy when the kids might want to watch the movie in their bedroom or the family room. It’s more useful in my mind than having a digital copy that you can download on an iPod or mp3 player. ***

The extras aren’t all that extensive but kids rarely are interested in DVD or Blu-ray extras anyway unless they are games. We don’t get much though. “Until Gravity Do Us Part” shows us how the zero g battle between Skeeter and Kendall was shot. It’s actually an interesting but brief extra that vies us behind-the-scenes footage. ***

“To All The Little People” features amusing behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with the two children playing Skeeter’s niece and nephew. *** “It’s Bugsy” demonstrates the creation of the buy eyed guinea pig in the film which provides a bit of comic relief (a bit I might add). We also get deleted scenes and a gag reel. ---

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