Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Cristal The movie really just wants to entertain people.

HotToastyRag I didn't figure it out until a third of the way through this movie, but Bedtime Story is the original version of the beloved comedy and subsequent Broadway musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels! The two movies are so incredibly similar, from the writing to the acting, that no matter which one you watch first, you'll be in for a hilarious evening. There's really only one little difference, and while I prefer the way the original was written, the remake is still very cute.David Niven, as studly as ever, is a conman who preys on rich American women. He pretends to be a royal prince desperately in need of money to free his enslaved people, and after a seduction, the women gladly surrender their jewelry and checkbooks. Marlon Brando, not particularly studly, also cons women in giving him money-for his nonexistent sick grandmother who needs an operation. The characters are introduced separately to the audience, and each set of scenes is totally hilarious. When they finally reunite on the screen, there's a side-splittingly funny battle of the wits as they try to top each other in the con game. I could tell you more of the plot, but there's really no need. The first fifteen minutes is funny enough on its own to make you want to watch the entire rest of the movie. Stanley Shapiro's-the Oscar-winning writer of Pillow Talk-and Paul Henning's script is quick, witty, clever, and charming. I highly recommend watching Bedtime Story, or Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, whenever you need a good laugh. You'll be laughing for days.

JasparLamarCrabb The oddball pairing of Marlon Brando and David Niven works very well. They're con men on the Riviera who play a very funny game of oneupmanship as they con one rich woman after another. Things gets dicey when Shirley Jones shows up. Niven is great, but it's Brando (very much a stranger to comedy) who is hysterical. He really shows his comic range, whether he's acting like a helpless invalid or as Niven's phony feral brother. Though set in the south of France, this comedy has a very stylized studio feel to it thanks to director Ralph Levy. Levy, a veteran TV director (he worked on a lot of Jack Benny programs) keeps the pace moving and he's very much abetted by a clever script by 1960s high gloss experts Stanley Shapiro and Paul Henning. Dodie Goodman & Marie Windsor pop up as two of the pair's unfortunate victims.

bkoganbing For David Niven, Bedtime Story was the kind of part he could play in his sleep although he's quite wide awake here. But for Marlon Brando this was his second foray into comedy, he would not do another until the Nineties when he was accepting roles for money to pay his son's lawyers. Brando does quite well in Bedtime Story as the sleazy GI conman. We meet both of them separately at the beginning, Niven in his guise as a prince living in a palace on the French Riviera, fleecing money from rich tourists trying to free his country from the rebels, presumably Communists. And Brando manages to con his commanding officer Parley Baer more worried about getting his promotion to general than in dealing out justice to the guy who disgraced his daughter into an early discharge with a private separation package.Brando as civilian meets with Niven on board a train heading to the Riviera and brags about his exploits and talks about trying his luck on the rich babes there. Niven not wanting any competition arranges a small frame up with the cooperation of the police chief Aram Stephen. Of course when Brando gets wise to it, they're forced into a partnership of sorts.Niven sort of glides right into a part that he's done on many occasions, in this case not even having to rely solely on his considerable charm to carry a weak film. Brando had done comedy on screen before in Teahouse of the August Moon, but the role of Freddy Benson, GI Conman extraordinary fits him far better than Sakini in Teahouse.If Paul Henning and Stanley Shapiro on hiatus from their rural franchise at CBS had really wanted to make this a better film, they would have invested a surprise in Shirley Jones traditional good girl character. Remember she won an Oscar for playing against type in Elmer Gantry as a prostitute. Think of the ending in the John Wayne film The Train Robbers and think how it would have really fit here. Still Bedtime Story is not a bad film and it even got remade as the Steve Martin classic, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. And hats off everyone to Dody Goodman, the legendary Fanny of Omaha.

bjshoes Between this and Guys and Dolls and the Godfather parody w/ Mathew Broderick, Marlon showed that he could be very funny. Sort of like Errol Flynn, I wish he had been given more opportunities.I have looked in vain for this on DVD it was supposed to have been released a couple of years ago, I'm not sure what happened.As noted many will be familiar with the remake (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), though I prefer the original. There is a priceless scene where Marlon (as Freddy)is caught with his pants off after seducing the burgomeister's daughter in a German town. He explains that he is part of the new Exercise instruction program and he begins doing calisthenics as he makes his exit.I also liked when David Niven and Brando first meet and realize that they are competing in the same line of work albeit at different levels.Highly recommended.'shoes