Rish Outfield's reviews
This wasn't terrible, but it wasn't great. When it worked the best is when it tried to be serious, even if the situation was absurd. Unfortunately, some of the very uneven segments tried to be funny, with slapstick and with stupidity. Scott Valentine was the only "name" star in the film. He starred in the first tale, "Peter and the Witches," where he was the servant boy of two witches concocting a spell made up of a lot of wacky ingredients. The spell is intended to resurrect their long-dead sister, and that's always good. This tale was pretty well-told. But it looked and felt completely different than the other two stories, as if it was a short student film that was stuck in with the others. Come to think of it, maybe the whole movie was actually that. Hmm. The second story was a somewhat-clever slant on "Little Red Ridinghood," but she ain't so little in this one. And the big bad wolf is a werewolf. It wasn't so bad either, but it wasn't great. The last story didn't work at all, as it was a flat-out comedy called "Goldi Lox and the Three Baers," where there's a telekenetic man-killer name Goldi Lox, who has a run-in with a family of criminals, whose last name is Baer.
I feel a little dirty having just said that.
In the end, simply mediocre movies never stand out in my mind. The truly terrible ones are very memorable. The great ones always come to mind. Deadtime Stories is one of those that I will see on the shelf a year from now and have to read the back of before I realize I've seen it before.
I'm afraid that's not much of a review, or much of a recommendation. Sorry, kids