Mini Film Review - Click (2006)

This amazing adventure from June 2006 sees Adam Sandler play seemingly the worst paid architect in the world, who's whole world is turned upside-down when Christopher Walken (a magic scientist/angel/Doc Brown rip-off) gives him a universal remote that literally let's him control his universe. 

What an exciting premise, thank God Sandler's depressed subdued acting sucked out any interest one might have in the struggles of his character. The film constantly flip flops between his jerk ass family making his work life harder, and him being a total cunt when they are being perfectly nice, meaning it's hard to feel sorry for him or his family when they divorce due to his pissing around with time.

The film takes elements the Christmas Carol, The Time Traveler's wife and many more, jumbles their morals and themes together and removes any lessons to be learnt throughout.

I appreciated the massive shift in tone the film takes, while it wasn't good it was at least surprising for a Sandler film. The opening makes you think it's going to be a typical "average guy uses power to fix life and family, and after road bump grows closer", while the plot does indeed follow this rule eventually we get taken away from the suburbs and his terrible job to a weird section of the film in 2029, with him already having achieved his CEO dreams and made his life a financial success, at the mere cost of his amazingly hot wife.

While it is cool to see them go with a future world and have no one question it the film begins to look so cheap it is unbelievable, Sandler's fat cancer patient body being a horrific mix of Shrek and Fat Bastard, yet more unappealing and less realistic than both.

The main issue with the moral of the story is that it's not really clear. Early on it seems like the remote is there to give him more time with his family by helping him with work and skipping the boring parts of his day to day life. However as he grows tired of his family he starts skipping family time. The message stays the same with work being less important than family, but they totally flip his character's personality, making the remote punish him for skipping his family rather than rewarding him with family time and allowing him time to fix his life. 

He unintentionally skips to the end of his career, and due to the fact he autopilots when skipping with the remote he appeared so cold and inconsiderate his marriage ended. So when he reaches the "It was all a dream" cop-out ending, he gives up on the project that would let would let him achieve all his work goals to go camping. This is ridiculous as it's clearly stated the fact he was fast forwarding caused him not to be able to communicate with his wife, so if he had bothered to do the work the long way the project presumably would have gone the same way.

Anyways, the other actors are as bland as Sandler, Walken does a little singing in his introduction so that gives this a music point I guess. Oh Walken was the angel of death, so basically this film comes down to showing Scrooge a Christmas Future really slowly, on stop and start.

Much better than some of Sandler's shite, take out the aggressive and constant fart jokes, maybe reduce the whorish product placement for Bed, Bath and Beyond, Sony  and Twinkies and you would have just a very very mediocre sci-fi flick, a homeless fuck-witt's Back to the Future. But seriously that product placement is crazy, literally a brand is forced down your throat every few minutes, Sandler pulling a Twinkie out of no where in one scene and starting to eat it while delivering dialogue still, in the scene where he is meant to be blown away by his magic Jesus tv-remote.

Rating - 

Direction - 1.3/5

Soundtrack -2.4/5

Plot - 2.2/5

Characters - 2/5

Overall - 7.9/20