Click (2006)

Rating: 5/10 (12 December 2011)

Click starts off as just another Adam Sandler comedy. He's angry, he has sudden outbursts to varying degrees of comedic success, and he's inexplicably involved with a very beautiful lady. After getting tired of his life he comes across Walken, weirding it up as some kind of inventor. Sandler is given a remote that can control his life. It's all fun and games at first. Using slow motion to stare at breasts, pausing Hasselhoff so Sandler can fart in his face, muting Jennifer Coolidge, and attempting to fast forward through foreplay. Then suddenly he's catapulted into the future, where he has cancer, his wife has left him, his father is dead and so on. Basically this is a film of two halves, both very different in tone, and it never gels. Like I said, it starts as a Sandler comedy, but towards the end it has delusions of grandeur as it reaches to be on the level of fantastic Capra movies. I liked the issue of not skipping the hard parts of life, as without them not much is left. This is something they really could have explored. Instead they bitched out and went for the viewer friendly "Family is everything" motto. I just hate that. Sandler works hard in this movie, he gives his family everything, and still gets no respect. He is always seen as the villain. Perhaps they should make a movie where he does put family first, only for his wife to still leave him and his kids grow up without any kind of support. They sure weren't complaining when he paid for the wedding. It's a mixed bag, as I was in a silly mood I was laughing a lot at the beginning, but the dramatic elements were overdone. I kind of admire Sandler for reaching out into new territory, but it has to coincide with the previous 50 minutes.