The newest Adam Sandler movie had some intriguing previews about a bedtime storyteller whose silly story ideas came true the following day. The beginning was unusually slow, but once the stories started flowing it turned into a satisfying bundle of laughs. The initially despondent Sandler character, whose father was a storytelling genius before his death, makes a feeble attempt for his estranged niece and nephew but it ends with "...and then he jumped in the moat and died. The end." But by the end of the film, the family jells, fortunes turn around, and a tidy moral emerges: When things seem most bleak, that's the time that heroes make their own ending by doing something remarkable.
You can safely wait until this one comes out on video or made-for-TV.
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