Not great comedy - but a fun, lightweight movie that serves its purpose and is thoroughly entertaining

Rating: 6/10 (16 July 2006)

Instantly reminiscent of "It's a Wonderful Life" and "Bruce Almighty," "Click" is a simplistic and lightweight comedy that serves its purpose as distracting entertainment. It's a typical summer comedy - nothing very deep or meaningful, but humorous with an obvious (yet admirable) message behind it. It's another Adam Sandler movie but not quite as crude as some of his others. It reminded me most of "The Wedding Singer" in terms of its humor - it's not as slapstick as some of Sandler's other works - but I actually preferred it to "Wedding Singer." Sandler plays an average Joe who has trouble balancing time between work and family. He's a rising architect working at a firm for David Hasselhoff (his casting was a pure stroke of comedic genius - well, it was a good choice, anyway) and has been assigned to a new Japanese building, which ends up consuming all his time at home and makes him neglect his family.
When he ventures to Bed, Bath & Beyond to purchase a universal remote control, he enters the Beyond Department and meets Morty (Christopher Walken), who gives him a true universal remote - a remote control that can control his world. He can pause, fast-forward and rewind his life.
With his newfound power Sandler finds time for work and family, but soon the device causes him to skip over too much of his life and before he knows it his kids are teenagers and so on and so forth.
The plot is pretty obvious and so is the message - some critics have complained that the film's alternating between basic comedy and meaningful drama (especially towards the end) is annoying and off-balance - but I didn't mind it.
Sandler is better than usual although not entirely believable as a married man or the husband of Kate Beckinsale (who is stunning as usual). It's really Walken and The Hoff who steal the show - I loved Hoff's sexual harassment speech. (Hoff: "Now, homosexual harassment. This is, like, when a dude touches another dude at work.") Overall, if you think you won't like this you probably won't. It's one of those movies where it meets your expectations - you can tell exactly what it's going to be like from the commercials, and if you think watching a lightweight Adam Sandler comedy for 90 minutes is a waste of time, I wouldn't recommend this to you.
However, if you can appreciate the occasional brainless comedy then you'll probably find something worthwhile here. If you liked "Bruce Almighty" this will appeal to you.