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"This movie unites Guy Pearce, Lucy Lawless, Richard Griffiths, Keri Russell and Jonathan Pryce together in one movie, not to mention Adam Sandler, Courteney Cox, and Russell Brand -- just watching these actors should be entertaining all by itself, no matter what they're doing. And yet Bedtime Stories puts them in roles so slim and dull that it saps the life from them, so Griffiths feels like a pale imitation of Richard Attenborough in Jurassic Park, Lawless is reduced to little more than a snarl, and Keri Russell just has to look pretty, even when she's annoyed with Sandler's character.

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Near the end of Bedtime Stories, a scene occurs in which, without warning, Kendall bursts into song. He sings a brief show-tune-like jingle and even dances a bit while Lucy Lawless's character, dressed in a skimpy Hawaiian outfit, accompanies him on the piano. It's brilliant and energetic and goofily charming, although the film obviously would like us to be thinking is that it's dorky for this guy to be singing show tunes at this moment in the film. The characters react in that way, and suddenly this shining moment ends, and the film descends into an inane scene with Brand and Sandler."