Click is a movie that was probably sold to the Hollywood execs in one sentence: A man controls his life with a remote control. Not even a screenplay had to be written for the executives to know that Click was going to push all of the right buttons.
Adam Sandler is at Adam Sandler's best. He has toned down the slap stick tantrums from the Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore days and still delivers. In Click he plays a work-aholic dad named Michael Newman that won't even spend time with his wife, Kate Beckinsale.
Personal Note to Adam: Come on, Adam … out of all of the things in this world to get a guy distracted from his job…you have to be the dumbest of them all to pass on Kate Beckinsale. Even the girl I went with to the Click screening thought she was cute. British accent, American accent, I don't care … she can be my distraction 24/7.
Besides my personal opinion on Michael's life, he lets the pursuit of money and a partnership with his boss (David Hasselhoff) control his life. Rather than his haute wife and children being his distractions, they are only a nuisance. Sleep deprived from pulling consecutive all nighters, Michael has one of his tantrums and goes to Bed Bath and Beyond to find a universal remote to hopefully simplify his work life. He doesn't find any remote in the Bed & Bath part of the store, but does find one in the "Beyond" part in the back from a mad scientist/engineer named Morty (Christopher Walken). The rest of the story is summed up in the first sentence of this review, the remote controls his life. Whereas one would think that he would use it to spend more time with his wife and children, he only uses it to receive more money and faster promotions from his job. When the remote no longer follows the commands of Michael's finger pressure, time travels without his knowledge, aging everybody except Kate Beckinsale.
Yes, when Michael is figuring how the contraption works, it is downright hysterical, but the movie changes into a dramedy and is done well. Click's story moves and is a worthy popcorn flick.
An Adam Sandler movie with a meaning? That's outrageous, but true. One could simply look at the remote control as being a metaphor for a person's life, or find the ever-so-common-general-movie theme, "money isn't everything" also implied. I really enjoyed the touching and warm father-son relation between Adam and his dad played by Henry Winkler. I'm giving Click 4 out of 5 Roses. I'm not giving it the fifth Rose because there is one major thing missing from Click, Christopher Walken did not say, "It needs more cowbell." It definitely does.
I give Click 4 Roses out of 5
A Rose for the laughs
A Rose for the story
A Rose for another Adam Sandler success
A Rose for Kate Beckinsale
