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Bedtime Stories

Once upon a time, a man watching this movie fell asleep…

Structure / Premise / Logic

It doesn’t take long for a bad movie to reveal its flaws. In the first few minutes, Adam Sandler’s father sells his hotel and the new owner demolishes it and builds a spanking-new highrise hotel in its place. The problem? Adam now has no objective. Even worse, he has no reason for being the maintenance man of the new hotel. The little hotel he grew up in is gone, the name is gone…it’s history. There’s nothing to reclaim. And if he so desires to run his own place, then why doesn’t he try to do so all these years? It’s so obvious that the battle, Adam’s objective, should be to get control of the original hotel before its torn down for a new one.

Then there’s a double-whammy of implausibility- Adam and his sister get along, yet he hasn’t been to her house nor seen his nephew and niece in four years (because her ex-husband “didn’t like him”). He doesn’t even know that Bobbi is the girl. All this to create a blank slate for him to start a relationship, and thus tell stories, to the kids. Ridiculous.

Finally, we learn that the new new hotel will not replace the new one, but be built in place of a school. A vibrant elementary school. This is so stupid and illogical that…that…I won’t waste any more time on it.

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