Adam Sandler will be Adam Sandler

Rating: 6/10 (8 October 2006)

I really should give up hoping that this man will ever make a movie as good and different from his usual work as "Punch Drunk Love" again. Of course, I wasn't expecting anything like this when I went into "Click". I just hoped that Sandler's style of comedy may have changed a bit over the years. Unfortunately, it didn't. Sandler is still painfully underacting and mostly unfunny.
The premise of this movie is a good one for 90 minutes of light fun. It could have been another fantasy/comedy classic about a guy who needs to be refined in the vein of "Groundhog Day", "Scrooged" or even the sub-standard "Family Man". Sandler just happened to step in and re-defines "light" as "undemanding" and "vulgar". People get farted in the face, kicked in the balls and the ever so horrible Rob Schneider makes his obligatory cameo appearance. That's not the way it should have gone down.
To be fair, though, it isn't just Sandler's fault that this movie is so disappointing. The script is a huddle. It starts of too quickly, the characters don't really work together - starting from Sandler's way too beautiful wife to his way too idiotic boss - and finally the movie gets inappropriately dramatic in the end.
On the plus side, Christopher Walken delivers once again as the funniest thing in an otherwise horrible comedy. (When will he finally treat his career with some respect again?) It's always good to have David Hasslehoff in a movie, too, but just having him alone isn't funny per se. However, that's apparently what the makers of "Click" thought, since Hasslehoff's character is extremely uninteresting.
As gooey as it may be, I do like the main message of the movie. The metaphor with the pot of gold was nice and the way Christopher Walken's character told it throughout the movie was really haunting.
"Click" doesn't quite deliver, but there are different scales on which Adam Sandler movies suck and at least this one was on the upper half.