Click

Click

The Gist

Adam Sandler is striving to be a successful architect in his company. To get to the top, he needs to sacrifice a lot of precious family time. His super-gorgeous hot-hoochie-mama beautiful sexy wife Kate Beckinsale goes through the thick and thin with him by trying to be an understanding wife. One day, he meets Christopher Walken and gets a remote control that controls his life with features like a DVD. Cool!

What Do I Think?

Adam Sandler’s movies are well known to have gags to get cheap laughs from audiences. The jokes could be harmless, racist and at times gross and disgusting, but all done in the name of fun. They all contain a certain unique element that others cannot produce and thus earned the term Sandler-esque jokes. You can get them all from The Wedding Singer, The Waterboy, Mr Deeds, 50 First Dates and The Longest Yard. He does not hog all the lime light to himself; he helps produce some films for his buddies through his Happy Madison company, making films like The Benchwarmers and Grandma’s Boy. Remember Rob Schneider? He always appears in Sandler’s movies as a cameo, often shouting “You can do it!” usually out of no reason. Click marks the first Sandler film without his appearance.


He started off playing retarded and idiotic characters (Waterboy and Air-heads). Later he ditched that persona and often portrayed roles that have special talents but always a slacker (Mr Deeds and Longest Yard). In Click, he has neither of those traits. This time around, he plays a struggling employee/husband/son/father trying to achieve the best in his life, with main priority in career.

He faces problems with his boss, in the form of David Hasselhoff where he always gets promised a promotion but never gets it. His boss does not give him time to spend with his family on holidays. Sandler gets calls from his boss when he is on vacation with his family. He never gets enough time to spend with the family. He is hot tempered and hates traffic jams. His neighbour has a better car, better pet and a better job. Sounds familiar? All these happen to all of us, yep.


One day, he goes shopping for a universal remote control that controls everything; the TV, the DVD player, the garage door, the ceiling fan and everything that can be controlled via remote. He meets a mad-scientist like person in the form of Christopher Walken (who by the way is born to play eccentric roles). Walken gives him a universal remote control. Literally.

And the fun begins! If you have watched the trailer, you have pretty seen all the cool bits from the movie. He fast forwards his traffic jams, he sees a busty girl and presses slow-motion, he pauses his boss so he could give him a good punch in the head and he can skip arguments with his beautiful sexy gorgeous hotter than hot wife in the form of Kate Beckinsale.


That is all the fun you can get. All in the first half of the movie.

(Spoilers ahead)
If you were expecting mindless fun throughout the entire film, boy, you’re in for a surprise. The second half is pretty heavy stuff. The story begins to unfold into a valuable life lesson, like for example, exploring the possibilities of fast forwarding to his promotion. That act alone to me is symbolic and metaphorical to our real lives. We work so hard to achieve our desired status in our careers. We sweat so much blood and tears for it. Along the way, we miss the important and good things in life; like watching our kids grow and spending time with our aging parents. When we get our promotion, then only we begin to settle down. That is when we discover our kids have all grown up and our parents, no longer around.

There are many times that I find myself almost crying to the scenarios played. The messages delivered become very real reminders to us. This is perhaps Sandler’s most important movie to date.

Thank goodness there was a closure to the heaviness! The feel-good charms came back when they gave us a very nice and happy ending that was somewhat appropriate and was really required.


Rating: 7.5/10
Very nicely done.

Notes:
Watch out for Sandler’s usual gang of friends here. Sean Astin, Henry Winkler and Terry Crews. Still, no Rob Schneider. Sigh.

Most of Sandler’s movies are hits in Malaysia and yet, he still has yet to have the household name established here. Ask any Malaysian who are Tom Cruise, Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt and even Sylvester Stallone, chances are they would know. Try asking about Adam Sandler and see if you get the same results. C’mon Sony Pictures! Time to position his name already!

Last updated: 2009-08-11 21:39:07 by joekhor

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I’m sure that just about everyone has wished they could have a remote control that would control the tv, vcr, dvd player, tivo, etc, but who would ever have thought of having one that could literally control your the events of your life? That is exactly what Adam Sandler gets in this film.
I’m not one to go into Bed, Bath, & Beyond on my own, but I’ve always thought two things about that place. First is that it has a cool name, second what exactly is “beyond”. I’m sure Sandler and the other writers/filmmakers followed my train of thought because in the “beyond” is where Sandler meets Morty who gives him the remote control.
Had you have said that Adam Sandler would play a character that wasn’t a loser, but rather a guy that just works too hard, most people would laugh at you. It’s amazing how far he has come over time. I wouldn’t go so far as to call this role tragic, because the tragedies that befall him him are his own fault, except for the heartattack near the end. Still, there is an amazing amount of depth to this character that we are not used to getting from Sandler.
There is a sort of running gag between Michael and Morty about Michael’s wife Donna, played by Kate Beckinsale, in which he says that her smokin’ hot bod drives him crazy. I’m sure I speak for most of the male population (and some females) when I say that he is totally right. Now, this film doesn’t really showcase Kate’s acting talent or body, but that’s ok, she gets a few good scenes in there. What is amazing to me is that the makeup job they do on her to make her age is done in such a way that she stays hot.
Christopher Walken is known for doing these off the wall characters, and this Morty character is right up there with the rest of them. He seems to be some sort of mad scientist working at Bed, Bath, & Beyond, but it turns out that he’s the Angel of Death. A strange and unexpected plot twist, but it gives his character a little bit of background.
I was looking through the cast and there are many children of stars that appear in this film, such as Sean Astin, Jake Hoffman, Lorraine Nicholson, and Katie Cassidy.
The real star of the film is the remote, though. This thing allows Michael to do all kinds of cool stuff that we can only dream of such as fast forwarding through sickness, muting dogs, pausing everyday actions, etc. Personally, I don’t know what I’d do with that kind of power.
This is another picture that starts off a bit slow. AS a matter of fact, it actually begins on the dramatic side, but after awhile the comedy kicks in, including a fart scene between Sandler and Hasslehoff. This isn’t the greatest movie or all time, nor is it Sandler’s greatest hit, but it is pretty good.

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