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Derek Malcolm's rating
Life on fast-forward
By
Derek Malcolm
28 Sep 2006
If Adam Sandler comedies are your meat and drink, you'll probably complain that he's not as funny as he usually is in this Capra-like parable.
If you can't generally stand the man, you may give him credit for trying to be a little more serious.
He plays Michael, a hardworking architect who neglects his wife (Kate Beckinsale) and children (Joseph Castanon and Tatum McCann) but then finds what he thinks is the answer to his troubles. It is a remote control, given him by a fuzzy-haired angel (Christopher Walken) which can fast-forward or reverse his life as he wishes.
Needless to say, it gets completely out of hand and so does the film, moving from comedy into a sentimental parable about living properly that has reminders of It's a Wonderful Life or A Christmas Carol.
But please don't think that Click is as good as these two classic tales. It's uneven and ultimately unsatisfactory.
Not funny enough as a comedy and not sharp enough as a morality play.
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