Schizophrenic

Rating: Null/10 (11 September 2006)

I'm not sure if many people have had this experience but I think some would. When the family cat got rather noisy as I was watching TV, I pointed the remote at her, said "Quiet Smurf" and pressed the "mute" button. This never worked, but would invariable draw a "dumb dad" look from the kids.
Maybe that's the sort of real life experience that inspired "Click". Others credited "A Christmas Carol". Probably both, as it features a universal remote control that does to you life what it normally would do to the TV, thereby allowing you to see what sort of a nasty person you have been and will be.
I found the movie a little schizophrenic. On the one hand, you have all the really low down funnies that you have learned to associate with Adam Sandler. On the other hand, there are moments of rather affecting poignancy, and even downright sadness. The dividing line is the middle of the movie, after the fast forward of the mysterious magical device gets out of control and our "hero" starts to lose big chunks of his life, to find that things get progressively downhill. And therein lies the moral, cliché but still well worth repeating every now and then: if you don't treasure the things around you and enjoy them, you'll find that it's too late, when you've lost them all.
Adam Sadler is trying to grow up (particularly in movies such as "Spanglish") and may I suggest, film critics and moviegoers, that we give him a chance. Kate Beckensale is absolutely adorable in this movie, although she does have a different type of charm wearing body-tight black leather, chasing and killing werewolves. Christopher Walken is the Christopher Walken you have learned to love in movies like "Sleepy Hollow". Henry Winkler  it's good to see him in any movie, and will be, to some of us, always "The Fonz". And there's Sean Astin, in not much of a role here, but always remembered as Frodo's "Sam".
This is not by any stretch of the imagination a great movie, but satisfies as a piece if good entertainment, and may even give you something to think about.