Funny, crude and tear-jerkingly emotional

Rating: Null/10 (12 December 2019)

Click is funny, over the top in places and even cringy- all things expectant of an Adam Sandler film. It is also heartwarming, tear inducing and thought provoking. Click is flawed but, on balance, it works. It accomplishes what it sets out to do: tell an occasionally amusing, occasionally affecting drama about how adults often lose sight of what matters. There's no subtlety in the approach, but there wasn't any in either A Christmas Carol or It's a Wonderful Life, either. Click works because Sandler doesn't throw out the drama in a quest for laughs. There are times when the comedian falls back on his typical shtick, but the film doesn't shy away from the darkness inherent in this kind of story, and it has a heart. Sandler is Scrooge in the last act of A Christmas Carol and George Bailey in the last act of It's a Wonderful Life, and he does justice to those who have preceded him down this path. This is a great watch.