Tuesday 30 December 2008

Bedtime Stories (PG)

I took the kids to see Bedtime Stories today, it's nice enough as it goes and pretty much what you'd expect from the trailers.

There is one absolutely brilliant scene though. Imagine the most implausible comedic scenario in sit-com history:
1. Adam Sandler (a likeable version of Ben Stiller) is a humble maintenance man who has been given a chance to present his ideas for a theme for a new hotel;
2. If he manages to impress the Big Boss Man, he gets the top job at said new hotel;
3. His tongue has swollen to improbable size as a result of being stung by a bee that was on his ice cream, so he can only mumble incoherently;
4. Russell Brand, his side-kick, dressed in a hula skirt and coconut fake breasts, offers to interpret his ideas; obviously he messes some up like saying "alligators" instead of "elevators".

This probably sounds incredibly un-funny, but it isn't. Honest.

2 comments:

CROWN said...

I saw it today with the kids - 'emergency, there is no TV'

Mark Wadsworth said...

As a child of mad Victorian/Modern Parents who wouldn't have a telly in the house, I didn't laugh at that. But ringing the other babysitter before she had even left the house was a nice touch.