Quintisential cop-out

Rating: 7/10 (1 April 2007)

Why oh why is this made as a comedy ? Here we have a clever twist of Faustian/Scrooge mythology and we have a possibility to make a really icy satirical movie to illustrate some really existential questions of the meaning of life and how we let life go by before our eyes. All that and they ruin it with fart-jokes, dog-humping, stupid magic tricks, other silliness and some very spotty acting. Chris Walken of course has his role down in his sleep but the rest doesn't seem to know where they are most of the time. Very sad indeed. If you wanna see this movie then STOP when Sandler dies - then the impact is way better!
And you don't have to sit through that awful cop-out which we all saw coming a mile away... Oh, and where did anybody get the nutty idea to put DavidHasselhoff in a movie - yikes...
See any movie written by Charlie Kaufman to see how a good movie about this kind of subject is made.