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26 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt"Stories" makes a better Christmas movie than those generic comedies manufactured this time of year. The hits-to-misses ratio for its gags is above average, the sentimentality is kept in check and the film plays well to its audience.
- 70VarietyVarietyWith Bedtime Stories, Sandler has delivered on his promise to make a movie his kids can enjoy. What's more, he's managed to do so without alienating his core audience.
- 63Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThis is a harmless and pleasant Disney comedy and one of only three family movies playing over the holidays.
- 50USA TodayClaudia PuigUSA TodayClaudia PuigThe fantasy segments, played up in trailers, get bogged down amid the ho-hum tale of a loser making good.
- 50Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsChicago TribuneMichael PhillipsClean enough to fly the Walt Disney Pictures flag, yet it's full of bimbos and cleavage and shots of Adam Sandler getting kicked in the shins by a dwarf.
- 40EmpireEmpireMore ho-hum than ho ho ho.
- 40New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierNew York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierSandler's shambling Yogi Bear-ness will be the big appeal to holiday-vacation audiences.
- 25Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversThe shortage of wit and the excess of goo can be summed up in Sandler's line to these children of divorce: "I'm like the stink on your feet — I'll always be there."
- 25New York PostKyle SmithNew York PostKyle SmithSandler's bizarrely clunky kiddie flick, is a sort of upside-down "Princess Bride."
- 25Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanIt's a dispirited, galumphing mess.