Click
What if you had a universal remote... That controlled your universe?
A harried workaholic, Michael Newman (Adam Sandler) doesn't have time for his wife (Kate Beckinsale) and children, not if he's to impress his ungrateful boss and earn a well-deserved promotion. So when he meets Morty (Christopher Walken), a loopy sales clerk, he gets him to bypass life's little distractions with increasingly hysterical results. But as Michael gleefully mutes, skips and scans past his family and his friends, the remote gradually takes over his life and begins to program him, in this fast, funny and out-of-control comedy adventure.
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Cynically Conventional Moral - KevinJaques
Kids would prefer their parents pay more attention to them. Everybody has been a kid. So, everybody responds, at some level, to the extremely conventional Hollywood theme that fathers are guilty of the sin of child neglect. By convention, the beautiful and sweet wife sees the truth but struggles to be sympathetic.
This cruel stereotype is painful to us men, but I am somewhat comforted by all my power and money.
This movie laid it on just as thickly as the celluloid would hold it. And then it methodically depicted how his unfeeling failing ruined his own life even more than it did for his child victims. Really, it turned out to be 99% bleak, excepting a predictable last minute cure-all. I had been hoping for laughs not a simple-minded tragedy.
My wife was almost immediately asleep.
It had some good points. By Bartonism, we had been laughing at an Amy Poeler impression of Christoper Walken just the prior night and now Walken was a co–star in this movie. Now that my ear is tuned to his unique style of delivery, everything he said was hilarious. He was my favourite part. And there was a sight gag about Sandler's body after he got fat then slimmed down that really sticks in your mind. That's a mixed blessing, believe me. David Hasselhoff was surprisingly good as the overbearing boss.
Overall, it just wasn’t that funny. But, I just like Sandler, and I felt like sitting, so I finished it.
111125Great Movie! - skylar22
I didn't think this movie would make me cry! It did! And laugh and think. It has a great story line that was delivered well without being cheesy. I loved the characters and the concepts was different. The story didn't go the way I thought it would which was a nice change from a comedy. I recommend this one for sure. You will enjoy it.Click = Scrooged = Mr. Destiny = Scrooge = Bedazzled - ktravis
Click = Scrooged = Mr. Destiny = Scrooge = Bedazzled. The same story can be told in many different ways. the whole "What If" scenario: shielding yourself from the pain and sorrows of the world around, always trying to find "the easy way," the way "you want." I was surprised to find that Click was superbly executed in the ability to create a good comedy (I think our Sandler is finally all grow'd up now! *sniff*) with some really good moral values mixed into the fray. I'm giving Click two thumbs up, raw from remote control wear.....
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Cynically Conventional Moral - KevinJaques
Kids would prefer their parents pay more attention to them. Everybody has been a kid. So, everybody responds, at some level, to the extremely conventional Hollywood theme that fathers are guilty of the sin of child neglect. By convention, the beautiful and ...Great Movie! - skylar22
I didn't think this movie would make me cry! It did! And laugh and think. It has a great story line that was delivered well without being cheesy. I loved the characters and the concepts was different. The story didn't go the way I thought it would which was ...Click = Scrooged = Mr. Destiny = Scrooge = Bedazzled - ktravis
Click = Scrooged = Mr. Destiny = Scrooge = Bedazzled. The same story can be told in many different ways. the whole "What If" scenario: shielding yourself from the pain and sorrows of the world around, always trying to find "the easy way," the way "you want." ...