CORPORATE LINE: Michael Newman (Adam Sandler) is married to the beautiful Donna (Kate Beckinsale) and they have two terrific kids, Ben (Joseph Castanon) and Samantha (Tatum McCann). But he doesn’t get to see them much because he’s putting in long, hard hours at his architectural firm in the elusive hope that his ungrateful boss (David Hasselhoff) will one day recognize his invaluable contribution and make him a partner.
Once he’s on easy street, he’ll be able to lavish attention on the wife and kiddies. At least, that’s what he tells himself.
After staying up all night to work, a tired Michael becomes frustrated because he can’t even figure out which of his remotes will turn on the TV set. Michael sets out to find the perfect device to operate all his electronic equipment and stumbles into the back room of a Bed, Bath & Beyond, where an eccentric employee, Morty (Christopher Walken), gives him an experimental one-of-a-kind souped-up gadget guaranteed to change his life.
Morty wasn’t kidding either. Soon Michael is master of his domain, turning on every appliance with the click of a button.
But the device has other, more startling functions. It can somehow muffle the barking of Sundance, the family dog — and even more astoundingly, fast forward through an annoying quarrel with his wife.
Michael is fascinated by his new toy and a little freaked out as well. He decides to pay another visit to Morty, the guy who sold him the mysterious device. Morty tells Michael he gave him exactly what he asked for — a universal remote that lets him control his universe. Right before Michael’s astonished eyes, Morty demonstrates the device’s mind-boggling advanced features, including a function that lets Michael travel back and forth through his life at different speeds.
Michael quickly becomes addicted to this new rush of power, which literally allows him to have his cake and eat it too. But before he knows it, the remote is programming him, rather than the other way around. And try as he might, a panicked Michael can’t stop the device from deciding which events of his life he’ll experience and which ones he’ll miss. Only then does he begin to truly appreciate and embrace his life — the good, the bad and the ugly.
REVIEW:
The entire premise of Click can be sorted out within the first few minutes of the movie. Every Sandler movie has a guy who does something and soon realizes the error of his ways in a heart-warming fashion so that at the end we can all sigh with the proverbial “awww.” Click is no different.
What makes Click a bad movies is its lack of intelligence. There is a remote control that allows you to pause, fast-forward time and more—apparently. It seems the remote can do whatever Sandler wants it to do as long as it fits into the storyline. The dumbest part of the movie is how Sandler can manipulate people solely for a laugh—like making his boss fat in a way that only Sandler can see. How does that make sense?
FRANKLY: The ending is all you need to see to understand what sucks about Click. Adam Sandler trying to act serious is as appalling and funny as anything he’s done intentionally. Even worse, if you had a remote and during the fast-forward you realized you were ruining your life wouldn’t you go back and make it better? Wouldn’t you use this remote to fix it before it gets beyond the point of no return? As with all Sandler movies—Click is senseless and unfunny.
+ Charlie Craine
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