A great premise gone to waist

Rating: 4/10 (30 June 2006)

Once I saw countless previews of a movie about a man who can control his life with a remote control, I thought, oh cool finally someone decided to make a movie out of the famous secret fantasy we've all had before. I wondered how they...(i.e. Hollywood)...would attempt to keep such a plot going with it not seeming ridiculously unrealistic. I should've known ass soon as the "Happy Madison" logo panned across the screen, that this would be another Hollywood wash movie. When, Michel's first experienced the power of the remote his response was too plain and lame. If that had happened to any of us we would've reacted as if we were caught in the middle of a terrible LSD trip. Sencondly, when Morty presented Michael with the main menu screen, that's when I had to go "Here we go again" another great premise turn cheesy plot turn bad movie. The fact that Adam Sandler couldn't rewind and live in the moment, Auto-pilot, and a plethora of other conditions, just seemed like bad rules for a Dungeons and Dragons game. Of course the climax of the movie is when the remote goes out of control, which was corny. It's automatically programmed blah blah blah...Morty's and Angel of death...boo...corny. The movie was overall stupid. Great Premise though, which is the only reason I gave it a 4.