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Click (2006) Rank 5 Reviews
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San Francisco Chronicle (Mick LaSalle)
One of the best American films of the year so far. ...read the complete Click movie review at San Francisco Chronicle (Mick LaSalle)
Empire Movies (Brendan Cullin)
Summertime without an Adam Sandler movie is like warm apple pie - without the warm apples. The two go hand in hand. It would almost be like a summer without a Tom Cruise movie. It just never seems to happen and doesn't seem right. In Sandler's latest ...read the complete Click movie review at Empire Movies (Brendan Cullin)
MoonStar Film Reviews (Youssef Kdiry)
The King's Room (Paul Perkins)
Release Date:
June 23,2006
MPAA Rating:
PG-13 For
Language, Crude and Sex Related Humor and
Some Drug References.
Genres: ...read the complete Click movie review at The King's Room (Paul Perkins)
The Cinema Source (John Wheatley)
The Cinema Source (John Wheatley)
Empire Movies (Liam Cullin)
Orlando Weekly (Steve Schneider)
San Francisco Chronicle (Mick LaSalle)
Hollywood Jesus
The Movie Chicks
Michael Newman (Adam Sandler) is trying to get ahead to provide for his family. He's a talented architect who willingly takes on projects with impossible deadlines in order to please his boss Ammer (David Hasselhoff) and secure a partnership in the ...read the complete Click movie review at The Movie Chicks
ToxicUniverse.com (Daniel Briney)
Critical-Film.com (Jason Pitt)
Greenwich Village Gazette (Eric Lurio)
Michael
Newman(Adam Sandler), his wife, Donna(Kate Beckinsale) and two
kids(Joseph Castanon and Tatum McCann) live a decent sitcom life,
although he's overworked and his boss(David ...read the complete Click movie review at Greenwich Village Gazette (Eric Lurio)
JoBlo's Movie Emporium ("JoBlo")
Despite its one-joke premise and rehash of the basics from every other SCROOGE/IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE-type flick (my recent favorite being Brett Ratner’s underrated THE FAMILY MAN), CLICK ultimately came through for me, but on the dramatic side more than ...read the complete Click movie review at JoBlo's Movie Emporium ("JoBlo")
Chicago Reader (J.R. Jones)
This comic fantasy is the best vehicle he's (Sandler) ever had, a high-concept goof that gradually darkens into an emotional nightmare reminiscent of Capra. ...read the complete Click movie review at Chicago Reader (J.R. Jones)
Dallas Observer (Luke Y. Thompson)
Not everything jells, but Click is funnier and more elaborately clever than anything Sandler's done in years. ...read the complete Click movie review at Dallas Observer (Luke Y. Thompson)
Wall Street Journal (Joe Morgenstern)
Bigfanboy (Mark Walters)
DVD Authority.com (Matt Brighton)
Foster on Film
Entertainment Ave! (The Dude on the Right)
Draven99's Musings (Chris Beaumont)
The Phantom Tollbooth
Three Movie Buffs (Eric Nash)
filmcritic.com
Christian Spotlight on the Movies
A Guide to Current DVD (Aaron Beierle)
Joe Critic.com (Sam Bear)
Adam Sandler usually plays a schmuck, but in “Click” he plays a gigantic schmuck. Michael Newman is a workaholic architect with a wife who is too beautiful and too understanding, two kids who are too adorable, and a career that’s always a piece ...read the complete Click movie review at Joe Critic.com (Sam Bear)
Dmoore Review
Maximum Movies Online (Max Einhorn)
DVD Talk (Francis Rizzo III)
Charlotte Observer (Lawrence Toppman)
Last week, the American Film Institute named "It's a Wonderful Life" the most inspiring movie in the history of the English language. The film was initially a flop, but it's now considered so perfect that nobody would dare remake it - under that title. ...read the complete Click movie review at Charlotte Observer (Lawrence Toppman)
Movieeveryday.com (Scooter Thompson)
Empire Magazine [UK]
ViewLondon (Matthew Turner)
Bullz-Eye.com
“Click” isn’t a complete waste of time, but it’s a horrible waste of talent. The source material has been severely undersold, Kate Beckinsale is given almost nothing to do (as are most of Sandler’s female leads), and the script is like two ...read the complete Click movie review at Bullz-Eye.com
Palo Alto Online (Tyler Hanley)
Palo Alto Online (Tyler Hanley)
Christopher Walken and Adam Sandler in Click.Now Playing: Click Century 16: Fri., Sun.-Tue. at 12:15, 2:40, 5:20, 7:55 & 10:20 p.m.; Sat. at 11:30 a.m.; 1:50, 4:25 & 9:10 p.m.Century Park 12: 12:10, 2:50, 5:25, 7:55 & 10:35 p.m.Picture this: Frank ...read the complete Click movie review at Palo Alto Online (Tyler Hanley)
Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
There is probably no film this year I'll struggle with in terms of how I feel about it than Click, a mix of surprisingly mature comedy mixed jarringly with downright juvenile moments of gross-out gags. Many have compared the film to It's a Wonderful Life, ...read the complete Click movie review at Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
IndependentCritics.com (Richard Propes)
"Click" is an entertaining film filled with every "put family first" cliché in the book, every sappy movie stereotype around and quite a bit of Adam Sandler's typical cinematic stupidity. You'll be sitting there in the audience going "Man, that is so ...read the complete Click movie review at IndependentCritics.com (Richard Propes)
ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Click is flawed but, on balance, it works. It accomplishes what it sets out to do: tell an occasionally amusing, occasionally affecting drama about how adults often lose sight of what matters. There's no subtlety in the approach, but there ...read the complete Click movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Click is flawed but, on balance, it works. It accomplishes what it sets out to do: tell an occasionally amusing, occasionally affecting drama about how adults often lose sight of what matters. There's no subtlety in the approach, but there ...read the complete Click movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
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Deseret News, Salt Lake City
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Premiere Magazine
Associated Content
Entertainment Insiders (Scott Mantz)
RevolutionSF (Laura Eldred)
Actors Ink (Ray Wong)
The World's Greatest Critic (J.C. Maçek III)
U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
Fitfully compelling fantasy about a workaholic architect (Adam Sandler) who receives a remote-control device from a mysterious inventor (Christopher Walken) allowing him to fast-forward through life. Frank Coraci's uneven and predictable film begins as a ...read the complete Click movie review at U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
Ain't It Cool Movie Reviews (Harry Knowles)
Comingsoon.net
Reel.com (Pam Grady)
Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
There is probably no film this year I'll struggle with in terms of how I feel about it than Click, a mix of surprisingly mature comedy mixed jarringly with downright juvenile moments of gross-out gags. Many have compared the film to It's a Wonderful Life, ...read the complete Click movie review at Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
allesfilm.com (Stefanie Lindner)
eFilmCritic (Matt Seaver)
Movie Freak (Sara Michelle Fetters)
filmdeculte.com (Christophe Chenallet)
hoopla.nu
Firstly, it's an Adam Sandler movie, and I've never been a big fan of his. I don't find his childish humour or annoying voices amusing in the slightest and Little Nicky has to be near the top of my most hated films list (particularly cos it features so ...read the complete Click movie review at hoopla.nu
Film Monthly (Michael Jones)
New York Daily News (Jack Mathews)
ReelTalk (Adam Hakari)
Sun Newspapers of Cleveland
London Daily Mirror (David Edwards)
The Chutry Experiment
London Daily Mirror (David Edwards)
Reel Film Reviews (David Nusair)
Slate (Dana Stevens)
Click manages to sneak some surprisingly moving moments in between the gross-out gags and the schmaltzy resolutions. ...read the complete Click movie review at Slate (Dana Stevens)
The Hollywood Reporter (Kirk Honeycutt)
The movie is gag-filled, as you would expect of a Sandler movie, but the filmmakers realize they have hit upon an idea that is both clever and good, so they edge their comedy into some darker areas of human behavior. ...read the complete Click movie review at The Hollywood Reporter (Kirk Honeycutt)
Montreal Film Journal (Kevin N. Laforest)
Reeling Reviews (Robin Clifford, Laura Clifford)
Big Picture Big Sound (Joe Lozito)
Movie Vault (Avril Carruthers)
eFilmCritic.com (Erik Childress)
CinemaZone.dk
DVD Verdict (Bill Gibron)
Reel Talk (Betty Jo Tucker)
eFilmCritic (Scott Weinberg)
In Film Australia
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
OhmyNews (Brian Orndorf)
eFilmCritic (William Goss)
eFilmCritic Reviews
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The Movie Report/Mr. Brown's Movie Site (Michael Dequina)
Portland Oregonian (Shawn Levy)
An unsteady mishmash of snot-nosed humor and treacly Hollywood sentimentality. ...read the complete Click movie review at Portland Oregonian (Shawn Levy)
Baltimore Sun (Chris Kaltenbach)
The emotions seem genuine enough, even if Sandler is not a talented-enough actor to always pull them all off. ...read the complete Click movie review at Baltimore Sun (Chris Kaltenbach)
MovieJuice Satirical Review
Combustible Celluloid (Jeffrey M. Anderson)
Film Freak Central Review (Travis Mackenzie Hoover)
MovieEye.com (Frank Ochieng)
FlickFilosopher.com (MaryAnn Johanson)
You wouldn’t believe all the anonymous crap I receive every day in hand-lettered brown envelopes slipped through the mail slot or via “mysterious” phone calls from would-be shady characters who think they’ve stumbled across an unproduced Ed Wood ...read the complete Click movie review at FlickFilosopher.com (MaryAnn Johanson)
New York Daily News (Jack Mathews)
A near-saving grace is Christopher Walken, perfectly cast as the creepy store clerk who gives Michael the magic remote, then follows him through life like a gleefully incompetent guardian angel. ...read the complete Click movie review at New York Daily News (Jack Mathews)
Boston Globe (Ty Burr)
If it doesn't quite represent the new, improved Adam Sandler, it shows him almost desperately trying to figure out who that might be. ...read the complete Click movie review at Boston Globe (Ty Burr)
Boston Globe
"Click" may look like a comedy and sound like a comedy, but it's actually Adam Sandler's mid life crisis arriving just a wee bit ahead of schedule. After a first half that's the epitome of Hollywood high-concept -- summer spun sugar in its most ...read the complete Click movie review at Boston Globe
ReelTalk (John P. McCarthy)
The Land of Eric (Eric D. Snider)
Random note: In a flashback to 1976, Michael sees himself as a kid asking his friends over to watch "Three's Company." It's no wonder they decline, though, since the show didn't premiere until 1977. ...read the complete Click movie review at The Land of Eric (Eric D. Snider)
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)
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)
Cinepassion.org
Boxoffice Magazine
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 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)
The Independent (Anthony Quinn)
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)
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 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
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
Miami Herald (Connie Ogle)
A sporadically funny, always predictable, weirdly downbeat fantasy. ...read the complete Click movie review at Miami Herald (Connie Ogle)
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)
Entertainment Weekly (Lisa Schwarzbaum)
At times dark and at other times gooey. ...read the complete Click movie review at Entertainment Weekly (Lisa Schwarzbaum)
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)
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
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
The New York Times (Manohla Dargis)
Following the lead tendered by the credited screenwriters, Steve Koren and Mark O'Keefe, the director Frank Coraci struggles to push the character toward the kind of age-appropriate complexity lost on Mr. Sandler, forgetting that his star only works ...read the complete Click movie review at The New York Times (Manohla Dargis)
Austin Chronicle (Marc Savlov)
Sandler is a post-Catskills goldmine of potential, he always has been, and when he's willing to break with tradition (a là Punch Drunk Love), he's downright revelatory. Not this time, though. This time he's just dying. ...read the complete Click movie review at Austin Chronicle (Marc Savlov)
ShowBIZ Data
In CLICK, Adam Sandler plays a man who discovers a TV remote control that allows him to fast forward, rewind, and freeze-frame any part of his life. It's a gimmick that Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times finds downright offensive. "The movie is being ...read the complete Click movie review at ShowBIZ Data
Killer Movie Reviews (Andrea Chase)
Flipside Movie Emporium (Rob Vaux)
The motivation behind that decision reveals everything that's wrong with Click, and with your persona in general. Simply put, you want to have your cake and eat it too. You've devised a scenario that might hold water, but are too lazy to ...read the complete Click movie review at Flipside Movie Emporium (Rob Vaux)
Premiere (Nicole Schmuelien)
Click is yet another uninspired Adam Sandler goof-fest with a long suffering leading lady, mildly bawdy gags--see Joe Schomo oogle female jogger--and a predictable ending. ...read the complete Click movie review at Premiere (Nicole Schmuelien)
Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
Can no one save the talented Sandler from himself? I hate this movie. Click. I hate this movie. Click. I hate this movie. Click. ...read the complete Click movie review at Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (William Arnold)
It's an unimaginative, mean-spirited affair that makes you hate yourself for laughing at it, and it's so devoid of anything close to wit, subtlety or sophistication that it stands as damning evidence that Hollywood has surrendered wholesale to stupidity ...read the complete Click movie review at Seattle Post-Intelligencer (William Arnold)
Slant Magazine
Eleven years after Billy Madison, Click finds Adam Sandler still being tormented by freckled redheads named O'Doyle, the inescapable impression that the star must have been mercilessly picked on by like-named bullies as a kid (against whom he's now ...read the complete Click movie review at Slant Magazine
Hollywood Report Card (Ross Anthony)
I like Adam Sandler and Christopher Walken charms me every time, but this film simply doesn’t click. The entire first half struggles to stay above water. It relies on the outdated idea that a remote control can be used to mute or fastforward real live ...read the complete Click movie review at Hollywood Report Card (Ross Anthony)
Washington Post (Stephen Hunter)
A crass physical comedy of unrelenting irrelevance with a gag or two amid the many other examples of bad taste, extrapolating toward infinite on the theme of remote control reality. ...read the complete Click movie review at Washington Post (Stephen Hunter)
RopeofSilicon (Laremy Legel)
When did the comedy guys decide we needed or cared about storyline? When did they decide sap was better than making us laugh? And finally, is Adam Sandler the new Mike Myers (i.e. about to be put out to pasture)? For all of these questions and more ...read the complete Click movie review at RopeofSilicon (Laremy Legel)
One Guy's Opinion (Frank Swietek)
It goes pretty much without saying that the best way to watch “Click,” should you really need to, will be when it’s released on DVD and you’ll have the same capacity for speeding through it via your remote that Mike Newman has in the movie. ...read the complete Click movie review at One Guy's Opinion (Frank Swietek)
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