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Click (2006) Rank 2 Reviews
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Chicago Tribune (Michael Phillips)
Before we get to "Click," a crass mixture of groin-kicking and tear-jerking and Sandler's latest probable hit, let's compare the star's rageaholic benders with, say, what Nicolas Cage comes up with in "Honeymoon in Vegas." There is more than one way to ...read the complete Click movie review at Chicago Tribune (Michael Phillips)
Village Voice (Michael Atkinson)
De rigueur hypocritical as it may be coming from Hollywood, Click is a cultural critique, with the dull blade and impact of a battle-ax... But it's a farce about loss, and it doesn't flinch. ...read the complete Click movie review at Village Voice (Michael Atkinson)
LA Weekly (Scott Foundas)
After an hour of predictably sophomoric antics involving foulmouthed kids, compulsively self-pleasuring canines and the rampant objectification of women, Click turns into a surrealist death dream in which Sandler's masochistic impulses flower onscreen as ...read the complete Click movie review at LA Weekly (Scott Foundas)
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Chicago Tribune (Matt Pais)
Empire (Sam Toy)
Another 'nice' Sandler comedy that works, thanks to some smart and genuinely moving ideas at its core. ...read the complete Click movie review at Empire (Sam Toy)
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Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
It's not just sad, it's brutal. There's an undercurrent of cold, detached cruelty in the way Michael uses the magical device. ...read the complete Click movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Entertainment Weekly (Lisa Schwarzbaum)
At times dark and at other times gooey. ...read the complete Click movie review at Entertainment Weekly (Lisa Schwarzbaum)
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Scrooge was granted visions of Christmas Past and Christmas Future, and reformed his life. What happens to Adam Sandler in "Click" is like what happened to Scrooge, except with a lot more ...read the complete Click movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Aced Magazine
Once the remote learns what Newman doesn't like in life, it begins to auto-fast-forward through all scenarios it assumes he would not want to experience... until finally, there is not much left. ...read the complete Click movie review at Aced Magazine
Bucket Reviews (Danny Baldwin)
Click 's premise lays perfectly in-line with those of most other typical Adam Sandler fare. The limited-but-well-liked actor here plays Michael Newman, a workaholic architect whose devotion to his career problematically intrudes on his family-life. ...read the complete Click movie review at Bucket Reviews (Danny Baldwin)
TV Guide (Maitland McDonagh)
An uneasy mix of frat-boy yocks and "Twilight Zone"-style science-fiction. ...read the complete Click movie review at TV Guide (Maitland McDonagh)
USA Today (Claudia Puig)
Despite its ultra-formulaic premise and juvenile sense of humor, there are a few laughs, and the movie's heart is generally in the right place, with the notable exception of racist characterizations of an Arab prince and Japanese businessmen. ...read the complete Click movie review at USA Today (Claudia Puig)
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (Rick Groen)
The only effect is to produce that most commonplace of Hollywood paradoxes -- a mood simultaneously frantic and listless. ...read the complete Click movie review at The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (Rick Groen)
Reel.com
Only two movies have really completely captured the persona that is Adam Sandler, Anger Management and Punch-Drunk Love. As a character, he is a genuine piece of work in his certainty that he is one of the good guys, when, in fact, he is a bully with a ...read the complete Click movie review at Reel.com
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
Most of his films are a clumsy mixture of lowbrow humor and schmaltziness; after an hour of bodily function jokes, Hallmark-card life lessons are learned by all.
"Click" follows the Sandler formula to a T. This is too bad, because for a while it is a ...read the complete Click movie review at The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
The Dallas Morning News
Nevertheless, Bed Bath & Beyond stockholders will constitute Click's most appreciative audience. They'll be delighted at the free publicity. ...read the complete Click movie review at The Dallas Morning News
The Movie Insider (Phil Calabro)
Michael Newman (Sandler) is a thirtysomething-year-old dad lives in New York City with his gorgeous wife Donna (Beckinsale) and his children Ben (Castanon) and Sam (McCann). He's a stellar architect, but after awhile, his work begins to dominate his ...read the complete Click movie review at The Movie Insider (Phil Calabro)
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (Ed Blank)
Catalog "Click" with the many high-concept, weak-development movies in which all of the jokes are stuffed into the trailer.
"Click" also batters to death the most cliche-driven theme of the decade's "family" comedies -- that a hard-working dad ...read the complete Click movie review at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (Ed Blank)
The Onion (A.V. Club) (Scott Tobias)
Charlie Kaufman could have made a great movie out of Click, a soupy existential comedy about a "universal remote" that lets a man magically rewind, fast-forward, and pause his life. ...read the complete Click movie review at The Onion (A.V. Club) (Scott Tobias)
The Independent (Anthony Quinn)
Miami Herald (Connie Ogle)
A sporadically funny, always predictable, weirdly downbeat fantasy. ...read the complete Click movie review at Miami Herald (Connie Ogle)
Film Threat (Pete Vonder Haar)
The problem with Sandler’s latest movies is that he now feels the need to inject some sort of dramatic conflict in order to complete his character’s shallow story arc of maturation/redemption. Introducing such mawkish sentimentality causes the humor ...read the complete Click movie review at Film Threat (Pete Vonder Haar)
Salon.com (Andrew O'Hehir)
I don't think any of it really hangs together as anything resembling drama, or that Michael is ever a remotely likable character, before or after his day of reckoning. But Adam Sandler didn't get where he is today by making movies for me and Roger Ebert ...read the complete Click movie review at Salon.com (Andrew O'Hehir)
Variety (Justin Chang)
Adam Sandler's recent low-key phase continues with this cleverly conceived but conspicuously unfunny comedy. ...read the complete Click movie review at Variety (Justin Chang)
Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Rea)
If the moral of Click is a stop-and-smell-the-roses bromide about how family comes first, the real message of this sappy, potty-mouthed seriocomedy is that a steady diet of Drakes and Hostesses will do you no good. ...read the complete Click movie review at Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Rea)
Chicago Tribune (Michael Phillips)
Aside from influences such as "A Christmas Carol" and "It's a Wonderful Life," Click is so much like the Jim Carrey vehicle "Bruce Almighty"--Steve Koren and Mark O'Keefe worked on both--the writers could sue themselves for plagiarism and then write a ...read the complete Click movie review at Chicago Tribune (Michael Phillips)
New York Post (Lou Lumenick)
Rarely have I wanted to fast-forward through a movie as much as Click, a treacly and not-funny-enough Adam Sandler comedy. ...read the complete Click movie review at New York Post (Lou Lumenick)
Austin Chronicle (Marc Savlov)
Death scenes translate into comedy gold about as often as public screenings of The Day the Clown Cried occur. Granted, the rare auteurist bloodbath (Peter Jackson's Dead Alive, Michael Jackson's "Thriller") can scrounge genuine yuks from the gravest of ...read the complete Click movie review at Austin Chronicle (Marc Savlov)
filmcritic.com (David Levine)
It seems only fitting that Adam Sandler, who has made a career of being the quintessential every-guy, would pilot a movie about the greatest invention for men -- the remote control. But Click isn't about the eternal struggle for who controls the all ...read the complete Click movie review at filmcritic.com (David Levine)
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