Click

Saw this movie a few days back. It was enjoyable, but nothing more than that. Well, the wife was hot… Oh, she’s the girl from Underworld… I like her in Click a lot better. Maybe I just don’t see vampires/creature like females as hot. Movie felt like a modern day A Christmas Carol.

Official Site
IMDb: 6.9/10 (13,331 votes)
Yahoo! Movies: The Critics: C / Yahoo! Users: B
Rotten Tomatoes: Rating: 30% / Average Rating: 4.8/10
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Amazon.com DVD
MY RATING: 6/10

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As I mentioned earlier, movie felt like a modern day A Christmas Carol. It’s a fight between work/money/promotion and family. Adam Sandler has always opted for work in order to provide a better living for his family. However, he keeps disappointing his family over and over again. The wife is understanding at first, but you knew she was going to break sooner or later. In comes the remote. On a visit to Bed Bath and Beyond, he finds a mysterious man that gives him a “universal” remote control, which he sounds finds out that he can pause, mute, rewind, and even fast-forward his life.

When he rewind, it was like the ghost of the past and he is able to retrieve any memory he has ever had, even ones he’s forgotten like ‘their song’.

Then he starts fast forwarding over boring parts or whenever he needs more time. This puts him into auto-pilot causing a lot of misunderstandings. One thing special about the remote is that has a memory feature which remembers the user’s prefence, so the things he fast forwarded will always be fast forwared, which included having sex with his wife, getting a promotion, and getting sick. The promotion ones were especially bad because they jumped forward a year when he got promoted to partner and 10 years when he got promoted to CEO. He soon realized he was missing his entire life and wanted to get rid of the remote, but as the offer was stated, no returns. His kids were all grown up, he even missed his father’s death/funeral. And his son was growing up just like him.

However, it turns out it was just a dream he was having sleeping on Bed Bath and Beyond’s bed. He decided to change his priority and family’s always first, now that he’s been given a second chance.

The movie ends with him getting the remote with a card that says, sometimes good guys just need a second chance. He picks up the remote and dumps it, which means that was the ghost of the future.

One thing I didn’t get was that if he sped through sex, why was he always quick. I mean the remote doesn’t make you move faster, it just makes you fast forward at your normal pace. If he could’ve made himself move faster, then he could’ve finished his work quicker and had more time for his family.