
Laugh, Then Cry - You Will Want To Start Your Life Over
Review created: 11/08/06(updated 01/09/07)
3 of 7 people found this review helpful.
"Click" is the first "all-around" package deal comedy in years. Stunningly hilarious in his "Happy Gilmore", "Billy Madison" and other classic belly-bursters, Adam Sandler began to show a more serious and loving side in films like "50 First Dates" (see my review) and "Punch Drunk Love". -- Then came "Click". WOW! I saw the previews and thought this was a fresh upbeat comedy along the softer side of "50 First Dates", and with Christopher Walken in it, it must be good, right? Oh Yeah, very very right and way more. "Click" has created a whole new level in the Adam Sandler genre. Christopher Walken is the ultimate compliment to this movie with a heartwarming message. Walken is over-the-top and perfect. No one else would have done. -- "Click" is definately filled with more than it's share of outright hysterical laughs guaranteed to have you choking on a Sour Patch Kid or soda.... but it has MUCH MUCH MORE I never expected. Sandler plays an average guy trying to work his way to the top in an architectural firm. Facing the unrelenting schedule life is dealing him of overwork, a nagging and pestering family, in-laws, children's school activities and MORE WORK that seems to envelope his every hour.... Sandler ends up frustratingly obtaining a UNIVERSAL REMOTE to control his UNIVERSE. While thinking he has just finally got a universal remote to run all his house appliances, he learns it has the ability to do far more. It will, in fact, do whatever he wants. He can fast-forward through fights with his wife, activities with the kids, dinner with his family or even intimate nights with his wife....all in the name of making sure he can get more time to dedicate to work. Thinking he is working towards a purpose, he begins to fast forward his work to his next promotion, then his next, then his next, as financial woe's pile up at home. (This is where "Click" takes on a whole new level that even Sandler is breaking-thru into for the first time -- A level that made me re-evaluate my own life). -- Without revealing an unbelievable ending that will have you talking about this film with others for a long long time, Sandler puts in CLEARLY the "performance of his career" as the films serious side takes over. (Some laughs are still in there, don't fret). Sandler soon realizes in very heartwrenching ways, that the UNIVERSAL REMOTE has self-programmed his fast-forward choices and is now doing it on it's own based upon his own "Customized Preferences" -- (His Choices To Fast Forward Initially). He can't stop it or get rid of it. Every time he thinks of being with his wife, it fast-forwards. Every time he thinks of doing something with his kids, it fast-forwards. -- What started out as a dream-device (missing all arguments with his wife and boring family time), has now become an implosive device. Sandler soon realizes his whole life is passing him by....and very quickly, and with heart-piercing consequences. -- This film sends a heartwarming message that can reinvigorate every home and family. It becomes clear, to Sandler, that he has missed his kids grow up, missed his wife and their life together. He missed it all....in the name of work. And what did that really get him? Can he get a chance to go back and live the life he just fast-forwarded through to appreciate what was really important all along. -- His wife and children. You'll have to watch? DON'T MISS THIS! It will change your life. SERIOUSLY !!!!
PLEASE SEE MY OTHER REVIEWS FOR GREAT FILMS !!!!
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