The comedy is weak and the tugs at the heartstrings are only slightly stronger.
Click (2006)
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Reviews Counted:163
Fresh:52
Rotten:111
Average Rating:4.8/10
Consensus: This latest Adam Sandler vehicle borrows shamelessly from It's A Wonderful Life and Back To The Future, and fails to produce the necessary laughs that would forgive such imitation.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for language, crude and sex-related humor, and some drug references
Runtime: 1 hr 47 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:Jun 23, 2006 Wide
Box Office: $137,340,146
Synopsis: Michael Newman (Adam Sandler) is married to the beautiful Donna (Kate Beckinsale) and they have two terrific kids, Ben (Joseph Castanon) and Samantha (Tatum McCann). But he doesn't get to see them... Michael Newman (Adam Sandler) is married to the beautiful Donna (Kate Beckinsale) and they have two terrific kids, Ben (Joseph Castanon) and Samantha (Tatum McCann). But he doesn't get to see them much because he's putting in long, hard hours at his architectural firm in the elusive hope that his ungrateful boss (David Hasselhoff) will one day recognize his invaluable contribution and make him a partner. Once he's on easy street, he'll be able to lavish attention on the wife and kiddies. At least, that's what he tells himself. After staying up all night to work, a tired Michael becomes frustrated because he can't even figure out which of his remotes will turn on the TV set. Michael sets out to find the perfect device to operate all his electronic equipment and stumbles into the back room of a Bed, Bath & Beyond, where an eccentric employee, Morty (Christopher Walken), gives him an experimental one-of-a-kind souped-up gadget guaranteed to change his life. Morty wasn't kidding either. Soon Michael is master of his domain, turning on every appliance with the click of a button. But the device has other, more startling functions. It can somehow muffle the barking of Sundance, the family dog — and even more astoundingly, fast forward through an annoying quarrel with his wife. Michael is fascinated by his new toy and a little freaked out as well. He decides to pay another visit to Morty, the guy who sold him the mysterious device. Morty tells Michael he gave him exactly what he asked for — a universal remote that lets him control his universe. Right before Michael's astonished eyes, Morty demonstrates the device's mind-boggling advanced features, including a function that lets Michael travel back and forth through his life at different speeds. Michael quickly becomes addicted to this new rush of power, which literally allows him to have his cake and eat it too. But before he knows it, the remote is programming him, rather than the other way around. And try as he might, a panicked Michael can't stop the device from deciding which events of his life he'll experience and which ones he'll miss. Only then does he begin to truly appreciate and embrace his life — the good, the bad and the ugly. --© Sony Pictures [More]
Starring: Adam Sandler, Kate Beckinsale, Christopher Walken, Sean Astin
Starring: Adam Sandler, Kate Beckinsale, Christopher Walken, Sean Astin, Jennifer Coolidge, Rachel Dratch, David Hasselhoff
Director: Frank Coraci
Director: Frank Coraci
Screenwriter: Steve Koren, Mark O'Keefe
Producer: Adam Sandler, Jack Giarraputo, Neal H. Moritz, Steve Koren, Mark O'Keefe
Composer: Rupert Gregson-Williams
Studio: Columbia Pictures
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Reviews for Click
Click, a movie with an endlessly cute concept, is a theatrical dud, thanks to yet another sleepwalking performance by comedic megastar Adam Sandler.
The jokes don't come frequently enough in Click, and aren't all that funny.
All things considered, if I could get my hands on this remote, I'd rewind back to the first time I watched Happy Gilmore, just to remember what funny really is.
This is not a truly awful movie, but it's not worth wasting money on.
Ultimately, you have to ask yourself how willing you are to be put through the emotional wringer by a slob comedy, or preached to about personal priorities by Hollywood multi-millionaires.
Click is about an immature man's bumpy collision with maturity, and that's the perfect subject for the stubbornly frat-based talents of Adam Sandler.
Click manages to sneak some surprisingly moving moments in between the gross-out gags and the schmaltzy resolutions.
Even with its attempt at deeper meaning and visual flair, those who don't look forward to Sandler's infantile humor and vacuous screen persona will find Click exceptionally bad entertainment.
One of the best American films of the year so far. The filmmakers take what might have been just a gimmicky premise and pursue it meticulously, following wherever it leads. Along the way, they create a shrewd and moving metaphor for the way people live.
Click ventures into unexpectedly pensive territory and even becomes emotional. (That word has never before been used in conjunction with an Adam Sandler comedy.) Sandler, usually a callow actor, has never been less remote.
This comic fantasy is the best vehicle he's ever had, a high-concept goof that gradually darkens into an emotional nightmare reminiscent of Capra.
The name of the film is Click, but that could also be the sound in your head, the early warning that you've been had again, stung by another dud.
Adam Sandler's Click takes a clever concept but executes it as an inconsistent retread of A Christmas Carol. Except, instead of Christmas, there's flatulence.
If [Adam Sandler] really could control his career with the click of a button, this might be the chapter to skip.
This rickety Sandler vehicle finds the comedy star steering through a charmless fantasy of self-discovery.
Coming up with a list of movies Click rips off (Multiplicity, Bruce Almighty, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) I lost count at 10.
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