"Click" Clicks, and the Critics are Idiots

Rating: Null/10 (10 July 2006)

Any movie that disturbs Roger Ebert into saying "this isn't funny" and gives it a low rating based not on how bad it is but on how much it disturbs him, is a success.
I was expecting low-grade disgusting humor all through this movie, and there is some (especially an unnecessary fart joke that is not funny, but then are fart jokes ever necessary?) that should have been left out, but this movie surprised me. It's funny in some ways, very tragic in others. In other words it's (yes, you heard right) a multidimensional movie, which is not just odd for Adam Sandler, but odd for most American movies these days.
Sandler's performance is better than usual, which means for me I could actually stand watching him, Christopher Walken is Christopher Walken, except intensified (which means you must see this film if just for him), and the supporting characters are all solid, not just cartoon props.
This movie is not really a comedy; it's mostly a tragedy masquerading as a comedy that slowly reveals itself.
Without giving anything away, Adam Sandler gets hold of a "Universal remote" that really is Universal; at least in controlling his own life. Stupid critics have compared it to Bruce Allmighty, but it's the opposite. Jim Carey controlled everything around him within a limited sphere; the Universal Remote only allows Sandler to control (or so he thinks) certain aspects of his own life, but without the ability to really change anything.
Yes, it's a combo of Scrooge and It's a Wonderful Life at the end, but if every movie plot ever made had to be avoided, there would be no new movies (and maybe there haven't been for the past 20 years).
The movie works, it will affect you, disturb you and stay with you after you leave the theater; what other movie can you say that about lately?
By the way, most critics hate this movie, for the same reason Ebert hated it; it disturbs them (poor guys), and is "overly-sentimental". Considering the warm, fuzzy personality of most critics, this is an endorsement to see it you can't ignore. Seven Stars. It would have been eight without the fart jokes and other crude humor.