Mildly entertaining but not original

Rating: 5/10 (9 August 2006)

Too bad the movie isn't that original. Throughout the movie, I kept trying to remember where I had read a similar storyline but it kept evading me. Then, recently, my daughter picked up her R.L. Stine book called "30 Tales to Give You Goosebumps" and announced that there is a short story in it called "Click". She read it to me (I read it to her sometime ago first) and both of us were amazed at the similarities. In Stine's "Click" story there is a kid named Seth Gold whose dad (not surprisingly) brings home a universal remote that allows him to replay, fast forward, mute and slow mo' real life at his home, school and with his friends. I actually found R.L. Stine's "Click" to be more amusing than the movie, but then again, Goosebumps movies are pretty darn scary - even if they ARE supposed to be just for kids!!!