The reasons why I wasn't satisfied after its end !

Rating: 6/10 (26 September 2010)

It seemed like a movie from the 1960s and the 1970s, especially Disney's (The Absent-Minded Professor - 1961) or (The Million Dollar Duck - 1971) where a middle-class guy has something miraculous in his life, that meets the third act of Frank Capra's (It's a Wonderful Life - 1946). Misusing the miraculous power through a "What I!f" movie can create a good fantasy with a message. But while (Click) has an interesting idea for sure, the treatment wasn't as interesting.
After spending nearly the half of it, with sketches that showcased the remote control's abilities and (Sandler)'s delightful joking, the script immersed in loud melodrama, that called for Indian remake!, and got caught in the trap of being dryly forthrightly preachy; where the whole meaning was said easily "Family comes first"! In fact, the entire second part lacked the humor and the imagination of the first one.
Then, slight matters bothered me. For instance: Who was that mad inventor?! I hate it when they finish writing a movie, then get too sloppy to answer questions of that sort, even though it would have been more solid fantasy if they ever did! He simply looked like the direct voice of the writer intervening himself in, without any efforts to make it "really" magical. A considerable point like "You were accelerating your life before I give you the remote" wasn't portrayed at all. The rude comedy; concerning excrement, farts, butts jokes,.. etc, went forever. This time, I deemed it an insult from the writers to themselves; because according to what I have seen of some smartness along the way, they could have done better and classier. I thought that the futuristic details - while being not too many - weren't that necessary, since the movie isn't designed to be a dazzling sci-fi blockbuster, it was close to block the movie's main text. And finally, the matter of the kids' bicycles was SO WEAK, no way that architect couldn't afford their cost!
Director (Frank Coraci) handled it nice and simple. But I don't think that it deserved being nominated for the Oscar of the best makeup; it wasn't that special. For me, the makeup of (Henry Winkler) as a young man was so-freaky-it's-comic. Apparently, that year, the academy didn't find more significant efforts to honor!
On the other hand, (Sandler) delivers in his second phase as a suburb father, after his well known first phase as nothing but A-one idiot! (Christopher Walken) was so perfectly cast, I though that he - at some points - was spoofing his own persona, as same as (James Earl Jones); who would redo it, right in the same year, in (Scary Movie 4). Moreover, it's my first time ever to call (David Hasselhoff) great in anything; he nailed that funny character so much to the extent that I was waiting for his scenes. True that (Kate Beckinsale) was kind of cold in the first half, but she improved in the second. And the soundtrack was nostalgic; in these days, it is a recipe for success to guys like me!
At any rate, it's still one different idea among the American cinema's flood of remakes, sequels, prequels lately, a good movie for (Sandler).. finally, and a well meaning comedy with an advice to say. Too bad that that very advice was said a bit poorly unlike the basic, very rich, idea.