Click

Reviewed by:
Pete Hammond

In this mindfuck of a fantasy comedy, Adam Sandler plays a beleaguered family man who discovers the key to happiness in a magical remote that allows him to "control" his life and skip anything he doesn't want to experience. Too bad we don't have one of these for skipping parts of this movie. The beginning has some good laughs, but once you get past the gimmick, there's nothing but failed gross-out humor and heavy-handed sentimental slop. The basic premise—a remote control for your life—is clever, but unfortunately Sandler enlists his usual inner circle of comedy buddies to do the same things they did in movies like Little Nicky. With Click, Sandler may have gone to the well one too many times, particularly in the last half-hour, which gets way too schmaltzy. And what the hell is Underworld beauty Kate Beckinsale doing stuck in the thankless role of a suburban housewife who can't imagine where her relationship with her husband went wrong? Old-school Sandler fans will feel her pain.

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