out of all the movies that teach you about life... this one finally clicks

Rating: 10/10 (27 June 2006)

Going into this film I was pretty sure I'm in for an epic adventure with laughs, tears, memorable characters and a deep story that is going to be remembered and cherished for generations to come... Turns out I was thinking about the time I saw the final of the Lord of the Rings films. Unlike them, "Click" does not have incredible adventures or memorable characters, but it does have a story filled with emotional, heartwarming scenes that the average movie-goer would not in any way expect from a Happy Madison Production or Adam Sandler.
To my surprise, this movie delivered and it did that from the opening scene to the second the last shot of the movie fades out to provide us with names of the people involved in the production of it. I could not believe this, a modern comedy with such a seemingly dumb premise as a universal remote control that, well, controls your universe? Even once I saw the trailer (which does not do justice to this movie) I was still widely unconvinced even though it did have the funny man Sanlder in the lead role.
But boy did Sandler prove me along with everybody in the theatre wrong. The laughs kept coming and were received very well by the audience who would burst out in an uncontrollable, maniacal laugh every 5 or so minutes throughout the duration of the film. Not to say that the jokes were original to any degree, but they were classics made modern, which is something most people appreciated.
Towards the end of the film the jokes died down, and set way for some tear-jerking moments. Don't get me wrong, I like to cry during movies in front of my friends as much as the next guy, but this one really did it. I was forcing back tears and that is something that even to me was hard to do. It was a nice break from the typical "oh snap here comes someone we saw a while back in the movie and totally forgot about to save the day" movie endings, and once again even though it wasn't a fresh idea it was done nicely and subtly, with quite a bit foreshadowing leading up to it throughout the movie.
In the end, while this movie might not change your life, it will give you a chance and reason to rethink it, and to me, that is one of the best things a motion picture can do.