A decent movie, but stick to one genre, instead of 10!

Rating: 6/10 (26 June 2006)

Starting out, I have to say that the trailers for this movie are slightly misleading...sure, they point out the main plot, but they fail to notify the moviegoer of some things. The main point they leave out is this: Click is not quite a comedy or even dramedy...its a strange hodgepodge of humor, family values, morals, drama, and even The Twilight Zone starring Christopher Walken works its way into the film.
We start off as the preview would lead one to believe: a normal Adam Sandler movie about a guy with too much to do and not enough time. Enter Morty, the crazy-hair guy with the magic remote. Long story short, things seem good at first, and they are, but problems arise as the remote begins to program itself based on Sandler's actions in the movie, causing him to skip long intervals of his life. He becomes fat and divorced, a workaholic, misses his father's death, and lets his children grow up without him seeing it.
As previously stated, if this had been a straight-up comedy, or a be-careful-what-you-wish-for sci-fi, or just a good family flick, it would've been worth my Monday night and $10. But after a few good laughs, the movie flip-flops into sympathy-for-the-hero mode, then shocker mode (Christopher Walken turns out to be the Angel of Death!)...and all of a sudden, we're in St. Elsewhere and the whole movie was a dream! So yeah, this could've been a really great movie if it had stayed truer to itself in one way or another.
P.S. Clever sidenote-Walken's "Death" character is named Morty-as in mortal, mortuary, morbid...see a pattern/Latin root here?