Bedtime Stories  Thursday 18 December 2008 7:38PM (view full
episode)  Adam Sandler plays a maintenance guy in a luxury hotel
who gets his big chance when there's a competition to come up
with a new décor theme, and win the manager's job. He mumbles
his way through this with his usual schtick, an underachiever
with a chip on his shoulder that I didn't warm to, though the
children in this film find him hilarious.  He has to babysit his
niece and nephew and tells them bedtime stories that are thinly
veiled workplace revenge fantasies, mostly about his snobby
superior and competition rival Kendall (Guy Pearce). With the
kids' input, the stories magically start to come true. The
message here is that your future is only as big as your dream,
but I'm not rooting for Sandler on his road to redemption.
Jason Di Rosso