FFWD - No Pause nor RWD???

Rating: 7/10 (16 July 2006)

Having read both Mallory's "La Morte D'Arthur" and Terry Pratchett's "Mort," I had a pretty good idea who Christopher Walken was playing in Adam Sandler's latest picture, especially as he kept repeating to Adam call him "Morty"!
The way I understand the movie is that time can either hold still momentarily or go forward, rewind is merely review... But if this were a true Universal Remote, would it not have an "Edit" button and RWD would have some extra punch?
If a project could take months, then freeze your surroundings and complete the task and let time resume its regular pace? I guess I am presupposing what I should if I were blessed/cursed to have such a device...
The initial stages of the film were Sandler's usual send-up slapstickery - what with how he dealt with his handsome yet idiotic and self-centred David Hassellhoff, and there was the ubiquitous Mutual Appearance Sociuety cameo from Rob Schneider as the Arabian prince Habibu with the ridiculous nose (this is the same as Sandler does when Schneider does a pic too)!
Speeding up the dog and an argument, plus waiting for the shower was hilarious - but re-emphasising the value of both time and the importance of minutiae in one's existence was a bit overdone and schmaltzy to say the least...
But it gives Adam a chance to look a bit like "The Wedding Singer" again, eh?
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