I have watched a long trailer for this movie and laughed all the way through, my Five year old friend watched it also and had the same reaction as me. Loved Christopher Walken's mad professor impression!
ClickMichael Newman, a busy architect who is trying to get ahead in the world, purchases a remote control that seems to not only let him control his TV set and stereo, but virtually his entire life. Sounds too good to be true. And it is, because soon the technologically sophisticated device is controlling Michael in ways he never imagined possible.
Rated: [ M ] MODERATE SEXUAL REFERENCES, MODERATE COARSE LANGUAGE
Cinema release: 22 Jun 2006
Director: Frank Coraci
Running time: 107 mins
Stars: Adam Sandler, Kate Beckinsale, Christopher Walken, David Hasselhoff, Sophie Monk
Rated: 3 out of 5
By Vicky Roach LIFE is full of remote possibilities - if you're in charge of the remote control.
Architect Michael Newman (Adam Sandler) has a lovely wife (Kate Beckinsale) and two terrific children (Joseph Castanon and Tatum McCann), but try as he might, he just can't seem to get ahead.
No matter how much midnight oil he burns, how many family holidays he reneges on, the elusive partnership Newman has been promised never actually materialises.
Everything changes when an eccentric shop assistant (Christopher Walken) sells the harried everyman a truly universal remote.
Soon, he is fast-forwarding through foreplay, putting his wife's irritating best friend on "mute" and freeze-framing his manipulative boss (David Hasselhoff) in order to fart in his face.
Well this is the man who brought us Happy Gilmore, so no body would seriously expect him to use it for the greater good of mankind.
Being an utterly selfish individual, Newman uses the remote to literally fast track his life, skipping over the boring bits - such as dinner with his parents, rowdy kids sleepovers and the drudge work at home and in the office.
Of course, his actions have unforseen consequences since this is one of the basic requirements of the divine intervention flick.
The remote starts predicting Newman's choices based on past experiences.
Before he knows it, the single-minded workaholic has skipped a decade of his life, waking up in an obese body to discover that he's become seriously estranged from his wife and family.
Sandler has built a career out of playing passive/aggressive emotional adolescents, but it's hard for such a type to make a successful transition into adulthood.
In a film such as the critically acclaimed Punch Drunk Love, the comedian channelled his screen persona into a more serious and multi-layered story, but he didn't leave it behind.
Like 50 First Dates, which starred Sandler and Drew Barrymore, Click tries to have a bet both ways - with mixed success.
Walken's oddball "fairy godfather" decides to help the central character out "because sometimes nice guys need a break".
But Newman is clearly not a nice guy. He's a seething mass of thwarted ambition and repressed anger.
A nice guy, for example, might think about kicking his wife's new husband in the goolies while he has him in freeze frame, but he wouldn't actually do it.
And on the domestic front, this so called "family man" is absent in the extreme.
Beckinsale, by comparison, is a fantasy wife who accepts her husband's failings with good-humoured resignation while she gets around the house in skimpy shorts and tank tops.
In Click, the dog-humping sight gags that Sandler and director Frank Coraci are so enamoured of undercut the dramatic impact of the story.
And so the emotional arc of Sandler's character seems more like a minor speed hump - which he hits way too fast.
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