Click...A WOW summer movie review

Monday, June 26, 2006

Spoilers Ahoy!
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Now last Saturday I went to go see Click staring Adam Sandler, Kate Beckinsale, David (big in Germany) Hasselhoff, and Christopher Walken. Also in the filmy are Henry Winkler and Sean Astin......since that is out of the way now lets get to the movie itself.

Adam Sandler stars as an architect named Michael Newman who is a total workaholic who has little to no time for his wife (Kate Beckinsale), and two children. His boss, Ammer (Hasselhoff) works Newman like a dog. One day, after a tough day....and many remotes later he is finally is fed up and decides to buy a universal remote. Passing a Best Buy and Staples, which is all closed at the time, he finds a Bed, Bath, and Beyond. He goes into the Beyond section of the store and meets Marty (Walken). Marty gives Michael a universal remote. Arriving home he finds that he can control his life with the remote when he discovers that when he pressed the pause button, he pauses everything around him including his family.....and his stuffed animal humping dog.

He then goes about trying to improve his life with his remote, skipping traffic jams, fights with the wife, work, and even sicknesses. However, when working on a project that would take months to take...he decides to fast forward through all that work thinking he would miss about four months. However, he finds out that he has fast forward through a whole year of his life. And everything has changed dramatically. He is now in marriage counseling, his kids no longer watch cartoons but are now interested in CSI instead, and he has finally been promoted as a partner at the place he workds at. He wonders what has happened to the remote and Marty explains that it is tuned to his preferences and will fast forward through all the things he has fast forward through in the past. ie work, sex, eating, etc. He tries to do avoid everything that would cause him to fast forward as much as possible until he was told that he could make it to CEO of the company where he works at.

Another fast forward through time, this time it is ten years. Michael ends up becoming an incredibly obese man and his wife has divorced him and his now married to Bill aka Speedo Torpedo (Astin)......this is getting no where.....long story short he regrets ever using the remote, it ends up that what he experienced was a "dream". Though, when he gets home it is found out that Marty, the angel of death as it appears to be, gave him a break and let him go back to the moment he arrives at the Bed, Bath, and Beyond. He learns to take things slowly, and that family comes first before work. Now, when going to an Adam Sandler movie you expect lots of laughs. It does have it's humorous moments but not that much. Having it ending up being a dream seems all cheesy and Dallas like and they could've done the ending in a much better way. However, though not that much of a comedy film it is a good family film to watch with the kids.....Despite the language (which is mostly spoken by the kids just for humor.) When grading this movie I would give it a B-. It's an average film good for a few laughs and the family...But I wouldn't give it an Oscar for best film anytime soon.

As a side note, hopefully Sandler's next movie, Empty City, will be much better. It may be drama, but I believe he did great in Punch-Drunk Love...A wonderful independent film.