"The only thing different here is that I don't swear or hit anybody."

That's Adam Sandler's assessment of his new movie Bedtime Values-- which is apparently quite a bit cleaner than his usual fare.

In World, Megan Basham gives the movie a tepid review and does a separate analysis of the prospective impact if fatherhood on Sandler's choice.

...while much of Sandler's previous work is marked by sexual innuendo and bloodless violence, his core style requires surprisingly little change to translate to the under-11 set. There has always been something remarkably childlike, or perhaps more accurately, childish, about his comedic persona...."

It happens to a lot of leading men....eventually something comes along that changes them. That something? Fatherhood. Once their offspring enter the world, many actors long to do work their children will cheer them for....

And then this, on the benefits of limits (within comedy):

Some of his co-stars even found that the constrictions of the family genre brought their comedy game to a new level...."Sometimes parameters create better work," Russell Brand admits. "You often have go-to places that you fall back on as a comedian, and doing material for kids forces you to go different, more creative places."