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Things we have learnt from movies

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

High FiveIt is always possible to park directly outside any building you are visiting.

A detective can only solve a case once he has been suspended from duty.

If you decide to start dancing in the street, everyone you bump into will know all the steps.

Most laptop computers are powerful enough to override the communication systems of any invading alien civilization.

It does not matter if you are heavily outnumbered in a fight involving martial arts – your enemies will wait patiently to attack you one by one by dancing around in a threatening manner until you have knocked out their predecessors.

When a person is knocked unconscious by a blow to the head, they will never suffer a concussion or brain damage.

No one involved in a car chase, hijacking, explosion, volcanic eruption or alien invasion will ever go into shock.

Police Departments give their officers personality tests to make sure they are deliberately assigned a partner who is their total opposite.

When they are alone, all foreigners prefer to speak English to each other.

You can always find a chainsaw when you need one.

Any lock can be picked by a credit card or a paper clip in seconds, unless it’s the door to a burning building with a child trapped inside.

An electric fence, powerful enough to kill a dinosaur will cause no lasting damage to an eight-year-old child.

Television news bulletins usually contain a story that affects you personally at that precise moment you turn the television on.

Bedtime Stories

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

Review

It’s really something to see Adam Sandler, king of rude and slapstick comedy, doing a children’s movie, but that doesn’t mean it’s any good. Bedtime Stories follows a young man whose father sells off his small hotel to a developer, thereby avoiding bankruptcy. The father asks the developer to let his son run the hotel but the developer hasn’t followed through on his promise after many years. Now the man’s son (Adam Sandler) is working as a general repairman at the hotel waiting for his big break. After being asked by his divorced sister to baby sit Sandler begins telling the kids bedtime stories, some parts of which come true the next day. He must learn how it works to get his way.

The story is boring, slow and only gives a few sympathetic laughs mostly brought on by Bugsy, the giant hamster. Just because it’s a kids movie doesn’t mean it has an excuse to be dull and boring. In fact, it should be the opposite. Although young kids will enjoy it, this movie is below even tween interest and will probably leave fidgety audiences with little to remember.

The bedtimes Stories are well done, despite Adam Sandler being more annoying than entertaining. They will take you from Rome to Space with decent CG effects and interesting sets.

What is really strange is that there is no real explanation of how this coming to life of the stories came to be or why it’s happening. It’s just happily accepted that these kids hold some power over real life through the stories.

All in all this seems more like a sad attempt to rob a young audience’s parents of their hard earned cash. However thanks to the lack of new kids movies out this month the movie will probably not fall on its face, although with school just beginning there’s no extreme need to see a movie this weekend.