also panned was the fact that the film was based on a bedtime story shyamalan told to his children; pete vonder haar of "film threat" commented: "if shyamalan is going to use his kids as a focus group for future projects, maybe he should start making movies for nickelodeon already and stop wasting our time." coincidentally, shyamalan went on to direct a film adaptation of nickelodeon's television series "", which also received overwhelmingly negative reviews.