Mostly for Adam Sandler fans, has some entertaining parts.

Rating: Null/10 (14 October 2006)

Adam Sandler is Michael Newman, architect, husband, and father who rarely seems to have time for everything he needs to do. Then, constantly confused by all the remotes in his house, decides to go shopping for a 'universal remote'. Inexplicably passing up the Best Buy store, and instead stopping at the 'Bed, Bath, and Beyond' store, goes in and asks to buy a remote. Of course they didn't have any, but Michael notices a door with the word 'BEYOND' above it. He enters, and finds 'Morty' inside, played superbly by always great Christopher Walken. Morty listens to his story and tells him they have this great new remote, and it is so new there isn't even a price on it. So Michael gets it free.
Confused, Michael takes his remote home. The dog is barking too loudly so he playfully presses the volume control, and the dog's bark goes quiet. Later his wife Donne (terminally cute Kate Beckinsale) is arguing with him, he playfully presses the 'fast forward' and the argument is completed in very fast motion.
So, Michael figures out he has a very special remote, as Morty explains, 'It controls the universe." He begins to see ways to use it to make his life easier. The problem arises when he also finds out that it is a 'learning' remote -- it remembers his actions and eventually begins to execute functions on its own. Michael's life soon becomes controlled by the remote.
Much of the first half of the movie is just the set-up, where Michael and we, the audience, find out what the rules of the game are. The second half takes a different turn, where Michael begins to regret that he is missing so much of his own life because of his selfishness.
SPOILERS. At one point Michael falls asleep on a bed in the store, and when he wakes up finds himself back in current time where the movie started. But his experiences had not been a dream, and the remote is still with him. So this makes him change his approach to life, not putting work ahead of family, in all becomings a better person.