"I taste sh*t! Did someone put sh*t in my lunch? Stacy!" - Ammer

Rating: 5/10 (1 October 2006)

Far and away, the strangest film to be released this summer is 'Click'. That sounds really weird considering by the previews it looks like your typical Adam Sandler poopie/pee-pee/toot-toot joke filled comedy. Personally, if that were the case I'd probably enjoy 'Click' a hell of a lot more than I did. 'Click' begins giving you a fun/crazy feeling but when it's all over it leaves you feeling like you just ate eight bags of chocolate. Yuck!
The story is actually not too bad considering it's an Adam Sandler picture. A man is all work and no play so he can provide a nice home for his family. His family bitches and moans about it, and one day at 'Bed, Bath and Beyond' a eccentric employee played by none other than The Continental himself (Christopher Walken) gives Adam Sandler a Universal Remote that can pause/play/rewind/fast-forward his life. Adam Sandler thinks this is cool at first then learns a valuable lesson at the end. Now, the movie would be all *****s and giggles if the fun was more emphasized and the valuable lesson part was at a 2-minute maximum, but that isn't the case.
It seems as though ever since Paul Thomas Anderson's incredible 'Punch-Drunk Love' in which Sandler played an emotionally disturbed individual trying to find solace with an equally bizarre woman while being tracked down by a brutal Mormon run scam phone sex line, Sandler has been trying to be more of an "actor" than "comedian" in his movies. Sandler is actually a pretty decent actor, it's just, 'Click' is the wrong movie to do this in. 'Click' is like watching two movies in that the first half is all fun and poop/Asian jokes. Now, personally, I like that. Movies that are just silly 8th-grade humor fun where you can just abandon your brain at the door and have a good time. That is fine, and every once in a while I enjoy that. I loved Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, The Waterboy and Big Daddy despite all the bull***** it took from the critics. If 'Click' would have followed that same formula as the other movies I might have given it a low 'B-', which for me would be a THUMBS UP. But, half-way through, 'Click' decides to take a more serious turn and become preachy about positive moral/family values. Now, that would be fine if 'Click' had the actors and writers, and hell, even director to do that successfully, BUT IT DOESN'T. Why? BECAUSE IT'S A *****ING ADAM SANDLER MOVIE!!! The second-half of 'Click' is just down-right sad, with warm fuzzy moments that are supposed to move you emotionally, but the only thing that moved was in my pants. My you know what, when Kate Beckinsale walked across the screen. Sorry for that raunchy comment, she is just too hot for me not to write about.
In conclusion, 'Click offers some HYSTERICAL, I repeat, hysterical, moments in the first half that were just priceless according to me (that Asian family had me dying), but the second half is just, well, stupid and clichÃ©. We've seen this same plot-set up where a guy is forced to realize his family comes before his work so many times it's not funny! I give it a thumbs down, and recommend waiting for DVD, watching the first half, then taking the DVD out, and returning it to Blockbuster. Please, Mr. Sandler, give us something better next time. Grade: C+ (screened at AMC Arizona Center 24, Phoenix, AZ, 6/23/06)
my ratings guide - A+ (absolutley flawless); A (a masterpiece, near-perfect); A- (excellent); B+ (great); B (very good); B- (good); C+ (a mixed bag); C (average); C- (disappointing); D+ (bad); D (very bad); D- (absolutley horrendous); F (not one redeeming quality in this hunk of Hollywood feces).