Monday, October 23, 2006
On the scale of good films this gets an average, on the story it gets a “been there done that.” However the delivery and the principles in this film are worth the watch. Adam Sandler does what he does best, yells, a lot. He plays an over worked career driven man that is wrestling with his own insecurities. He wants a better life for his kids than the one he had, except the only one that thinks he had a bad life is Michael (Adam). So in another crazy attempt to get what the “Odoyal’s” have he heads out in the middle of the night to get a universal remote, but what he finds is a stranger (Christopher Walken) in the back of Bath Body and Beyond. So upon receiving a state of the art new “Universal Remote” Michael begins his learning lesson. At first allowing the new found power to be everything that he wants. The hard parts of marriage with his wife Donna (Kate Beckinsale),
the boring parts of his job, until he finds that the remote has taken control and starts to skip everything basted on learning technology (thanks Tivo). Well, all goes nuts and that’s when Michael has to learn about what it means to put family first.
All the major players do very well and you find the Adam Sandler favorites pop up in small roles. Everything considered this movie is more on par with Spanglish rather than 50 First Dates a very “It’s a Wonderful Life” thing.
So if you like Adam Sandler and a cute comedy then “Click” it.
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