Normally when Adam Sandler is in more PG-13 or R rated movies you find him hilarious, because the film has extra content that makes you more prone to laugh. My first initial thought was that I would hate this movie because of the PG rating, but I will admit that this movie made me laugh a lot more than I expected. This actually might seem a little childish or kid friendly, but sometimes you have to forget about that and enjoy the movie for what it is. With a script written by half-retarded monkeys and an audience that is increasingly satisfied with mediocrity: how can Bedtime Stories not be the biggest hit of the holiday movie season? Sandler is a moronic hotel handyman with daddy issues. His sister is going out of town because the school she works at is being destroyed. Sandler must take care of her kids and tell them bedtime stories. These stories end up happening in real life and Sandler games the kids to get his way in the real world. Sandler ends up saving the school and getting the job. Quite likely what I expected, “Bedtime stories” is not a haphazardly thrown together series of sketches to get a few laughs and showcase CGI.
There is a good story, starting with a 30-some-years-ago prologue of how a man (a delightful cameo of Jonathan Pryce) who ran a family motel in L.A. (with his little daughter and son) lost the business to a tycoon (Richard Griffiths) who turns it into a modern-day mega-hotel which he now intends to tear down and replace with a mega-mega-hotel. The little boy, now at the point of a mid-life crisis (Adam Sandler), is working in the hotel as a lowly maintenance man despite the tycoon’s one-time promise to his father to look after him well. If you are Adam Sandler Big Fans, then bedtime stories movies is worth to watch
The plot of the movie is actually a very basic one. Journalist John Grogan gets his wife a puppy to take his wife’s mind off kids, and their lives are never the same for it. We watch Marley grow into a ninety pound, underwear stealing, jewelry eating, drywall chewing wrecking ball, but we also see his unconditional love for his family, through the good times and the bad. And in we end, we see the inevitable end of Marley’s long life and his family’s loss at having to let him go. There are many funny moments in this movie, but this is by no means a Beethoven knockoff canine-comedy. This is a story of life, and a story of love in spite of difficulty, and this is the story that many people have shared as they have watched a beloved pet grow old and die.
Marley and Me isn’t just a film about a wild and untrained dog who does silly gags that we’ve seen before. This is a movie about the cycle of life and how life if often not what we expect. Through the introduction of the dog, Marley, we see how the characters grow and adapt and finally we see exactly how unimportant all those things we thought were so crucial really are. The film captured the way a dog can steal your heart and how they truly are a member of the family and it pulls all the right heart strings at all the right moments. But is it a good film? Dog lovers will be captivated by the experience and have their hearts broken in the last 20 minutes while everyone else will probably just see a mediocre date movie with a cute puppy and routine performance from Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson.
Wonderful movie about life as the characters played by Jennifer Anniston and Owen Wilson get married and start their life together with the “most stupidest dog in the world”. Lots of laughs in this movie but also as the story unfolds with the Grogan’s careers and family they all love their dog “Marley”. This can be quite the tear jerker however I found the movie to be quite heart warming and very beautiful. We watch as the family grows and how their silly dog is a very important part of the family. Anyone who has had a dog can relate the movie moves along at a nice pace. Both Anniston and Wilson did very well here especially Wilson as we get to see him acting a serious part and doing it so well.
