Heartwarming un Sandler like Adam Sandler film

Rating: Null/10 (5 January 2019)

Click was one of the more popular of Adam Sandler's films which was a hit among the general public and that's because this is not a typical Sandler comedy. There are gags and jokes but the tone is serious and by the end of the film it turns into a tear-jerker. Click accomplishes what it sets out to do: tell an occasionally amusing, occasionally affecting drama about how adults often lose sight of what matters. 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 by using the template and reapplying it.