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Cast
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Frank Coraci (Director)
Adam Sandler (Michael Newman)
Kate Beckinsale (Donna Newman)
Christopher Walken (Morty)
David Hasselhoff (Ammer)
Henry Winkler (Ted)
Julie Kavner (Trudy)
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Click is a mix of Twilight Zone; Back to the Future I,
II, III; It’s a Wonderful Life, and The Wizard of OZ. It
is about Michael Newman (Adam Sandler) an overworked,
ambitious architect who is given a “Universal Remote
Control” by Morty (Christopher Walken) a mad scientist
type. The universal remote allows Michael to control his
universe by fast forwarding, pausing, adjusting the
volume, etcetera, of his own life.
The movie feels like it could be divided into three
scripts. One, anyone of us could have written, and that
is testing out all of the functions of the remote… using
fast forward to make unpleasant tasks go by quickly;
pressing mute to stop the annoying barking of a dog for
example; hitting pause to ponder a situation – all
interesting enough to experiment with, but nothing
especially clever or surprising.
The second “script” is a touching cautionary tale
telling us all that every frame of our life story is
important, and not to zip through it like a zombie.
Savor it all, especially family life – the kids grow up
fast and the people we love can not always be as close
to us as we would like.
Interspersed with the first two scripts is the horribly
sophomoric, crude, and classless humor that was Adam
Sandler’s early trademark. As we were walking out of the
theater my wife commented “.. just when I was about to
change my opinion of Adam Sandler… this.”
It is a shame. I feel this film could have been an
American family classic, if only someone in the editing
room would have clicked through the gross parts.
Ironically, a few years from now when the film makes
network TV debut, edited for family time viewing, it may
end up a classic after all, but for now I give it 2 and
a ½ pops..
--
Pappy (
2 1/2 out of 4 pops )
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