Click

Rating: 9/10 (11 July 2006)

Click is about a man named Michael Newman who lives with his wife Donna and his kids Ben and Samantha. Michael is a workaholic and spends more time on work that he is on his family. One day while getting frustrated with all the remotes in the house he goes down to a department store and gets a mysterious universal remote control from an unique man named Morty. Michael finds that with this remote control he can turn down the volume of his dog's bark, fast forward through fights with his wife and many other unique things. But soon the remote is working on it's own and begins fast forwarding through Michael's life and all the big important things coming in the future. Michael now has to stop the remote before it fast forwards through his whole life and if he can ever get back to where he was he wants to seriously consider his life and how much time he is spending with his job rather than his family. Click has good direction, a good script, good performances by the cast and good film editing. After watching this film I was surprised at how different it was than the usual Adam Sandler films. Sure it has some crude humour and the typical kind of Adam Sandler jokes that you will find in almost all of his movies, but this film is also touching, sweet and has a lot of feeling and emotion. The film reminded me of a modern day version of the film It's A Wonderful Life only in an Adam Sandler kind of way. I really liked this film for it's original script and idea and there were some amusing moments in this movie and also a lot of tenderness and heartfelt moments. This film works as a comedy and it works as a drama as well. Proving he can also provide a great dramatic performance in films such as Punch Drunk Love, Adam Sandler does the same here and the result is a very entertaining, fun and touching film that should appeal not only to fans of Adam Sandler, but to a lot of the film going public as well. I really liked the original ideas and plot of this film and I liked the goofy parts and most of all I liked the last half of the film where Michael re-thinks his life and where us the audience are treated to a lot of well done drama scenes. Click works on a lot of levels and next to Punch Drunk Love is probably Adam Sandler's best film. I hope with the success of this film that Adam Sandler does more dramas seeing as he has proved on several occasions that he can and I hope he chooses more original films like this. Click gets a big recommendation from me and I was very pleasantly surprised how much I liked it.