adam sandler movie aren not quite as funny a they use to be . billy madison be by far the funny and and it be downhill since then and with the long yard be his bad comedy yet . at the same time and sandler have be involve himself in many more serious project and such a punch drunk love and spanglish . click could be say to be a combination of the two and half a tragedy and half an immature fantasy comedy . it be this dual personality that be the main fault of click and because it simply exist at two opposite pole . the main premise of click be something that everyone have probably think of at one time or another . what if you could have a remote control that control event around you . would you use to help others or to exercise all of your guilty pleasure in your dark dream . would you give yourself a clean slate and start from page one . would you use it for trial and error and try something and if it doesn not work feel free to rewind . click never delve too deeply into the psychology behind be your own god and because it be more obsessed with make it a personal tale rather than make the main character a metaphor for the audience to relate to . the movie follow michael newman ( sandler ) and a man with a beautiful wife ( beckinsale ) and two young child and the hope of soon make partner in an architectural firm and which have cause him to work insane hour and ignore his family . he doesn not have time for the regular thing and such a take his kid camp or make love to his wife . a the straw that break the camel back and he be have problem with the excessive number of remote in his home which apparently control everything from light fixture to the refrigerator . he go out search for a universal remote and find only bed and bath and beyond to be open . he venture into the beyond section and find morty ( walken ) and who give him a top of the line non returnable remote for free and cite that sometimes good guy need a break . he leave it up to michael to find out that the remote control his entire universe and allow him to pause and fast forward and chapter select and hear commentary and etc . a you would expect from any sandler movie and it start out with him abuse his power for personal benefit or for fun . he give himself a tan use the tint and he revisit old childhood memory and he torment the child next door . he also use it to skip past hard work period or dinner with his parent ( winkler and kavner ) and which leave him a a near zombie in autopilot . some of what happen be fairly funny and just because we all know we would love to do the same thing if give the chance and or because we manage to revel in michael joy with his new toy a he make everyone speak spanish or have james earl jones narrate his life . more often than not and it be about as crude a you would expect from a sandler movie and which bode pretty bad and hit low such a dog ( yes and plural ) hump a stuffed toy duck or sandler farting into the face of his bos ( hasselhoff ) . the movie do a quick 180 halfway through and turn into a tragedy a the remote automatically skip year at a time base on what he previously skip . basically and this mean that he have spend most of his life on auto pilot and and we see his life fall apart basically . a a tragedy and it work well and have a couple strong emotional moment near the end a he try to stop his life from self destruct . the problem that exist be that click be possibly the most bipolar movie i have ever see . the first half be the sandler brand of immature fart joke and while the second half be a tragedy that seem perfect for date movie . to find an audience who would appreciate both the tear jerking drama and the dog hump humour would be quite a task . the fact that click could have work go in either direction add insult to injury and a we potentially could have have two good movie with distinctly different mood and but the same subject matter . instead and we have an amalgamation of the two approach and and it be far too jumbled to be effective . from an act perspective and sandler be surprisingly strong and though nothing that would gain him much more respect after turn in good performance in punch drunk love and spanglish . the rest of the cast be mostly forgettable and aside from a terrifically sleazy david hasselhoff . beckinsale be definitely strong and though it be far from career define work . even christopher walken and one of my personal favourite actor and be waste and have a couple good line here and there but more or less float through the movie . on a side note and the aging be do incredibly well on all character and consider the movie span more than twenty year . it isn not hard to mistake sandler for a sixty year old near the end of the cycle and though the same effect isn not a noticeable on beckinsale or astin . see an eighty year old henry winkler prove to be one of the movie more heartbreaking visuals . there may be some gold hidden deep with click and a movie that could have easily be much more . a it stand and it be likely to repulse just as much a it attract . there be no way that a movie can be both a tragedy and have someone fart in david hasselhoff face . there be definitely potential for a movie about one of the most common fantasy in life and but few of the possibility be realize . maybe in a few year and the concept can be revisit with either a fully comic or fully dramatic attitude and or at least a more subtle blend of the two . the bipolarity of the movie essentially cancel out the audience and make click a movie for almost no one . 46 % .