Click is a high-concept, low-brow variation on It's a Wonderful Life that will have Adam Sandler fans laughing even as it leaves Frank Capra spinning in his grave. In their third collaboration (after The Wedding Singer and The Waterboy, Sandler and director Frank Coraci aim at the lowest common denominator and consistently hit their target, from scary casting (David Hasselhoff as Sandler's shallow, sexist boss; Sean Astin in a tight red Speedo) to a rancid menu of fart jokes, fat jokes, oversexed dogs, and other attempts at humor that rarely rise above the level of grade-school pranks. Sandler's "family comes first" sentiment somehow manages to survive the onslaught of rude, crude attitude that Sandler brings to his role as Michael Newman, a workaholic architect who learns the hard way that, well, family comes first. This happens after Newman gets a magical remote control from Morty (Christopher Walken, the film's one and only highlight), an eccentric oddball in the "Beyond" section of a Bed, Bath & Beyond store who's a devilish version of Wonderful Life's benevolent guardian angel. But Sandler's no James Stewart as he uses his techno-marvel (complete with a DVD-like "life menu") to fast-forward through his life's most unpleasant moments, only to realize that he's been missing lots of good stuff, too. With Kate Beckinsale as Newman's neglected wife, impressive older-age make-ups by Rick Baker and a lot of digital wizardry to beef up the humor, Click won't disappoint Sandler's established fan base, and its $40 million opening weekend offered ample proof that Sandler's box-office clout remains remarkably consistent.--Jeff Shannon

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Some good work here but it's just not that funny

There's a lot of good work here: the story, the special effects are very good. There's a number of good supporting performances (Beckinsale, Winkler, and especially Walken) along with a good lead performance from Sandler. What they left out was the laughs. The dog humping the toy duck the 1st time was okay but the 10th time, it's evidence they can't think of anything funny to say or do. An okay film but unfortunately, the laughs are limited here.

Life Lessons

Adam Sandler usually does a good job of making me laugh. However, Click was a dramedy that delivered a more profound messages than many of Sandler's other films. Why are we always in such a rush? Michael (Adam Sandler) goes to Bed, Bath, and Beyond, and discovers a secret door to the "Beyond." Here he meets a mad scientist named Morty (Christopher Walken) who gives him a universal remote that will allow him to "click" to whatever part of his life he would to fastforward to. At this point the movie was just beginning to feel a lot like Back to the Future, but all movies have cliches, so I gavie it a chance.

Michael's new remote sounds nice, but is this what life is all about? Sometimes we should just put down your cell phone and enjoy talking to people face to face. The message I took from this film is that people should appreciate the small things in life and not always be in a rush, especially since we can never "rewind" and do things over.

One caveat I had about this film was the foul language Michale (Sandler) uses towards the neighbor boy and the foul language the child uses back. The neighbor kid may be a spoiled obnoxious brat, but the pranks that Sandler uses to get back at him are by no means justifiable. If anything, these pranks show how immature some of the adults in this movie really are. Yes it is only a dramedy, but it never hurts to think about these things. Overall it is a good and funny movie.

Click sort of Clicks for Me

First off, the music was fine. I enjoyed the 80s/90s style throughout and even during the credits. I did not totally see the parallel to It's a Wonderful Life, more like Christmas Carol, but it stands on its own. The toilet humor I can do without, but the ending twists a bit to where we learn that we really are fast-forwarding through life and missing out on things & experiences by "going through the motions" and, as the movie says, "going on automatic". Good moral lessons, but please who needs fart jokes and dogs humping ducks? Geesh.... The "making of" features and how the effects were done was especially interesting and worth the rental.