Movie · 2006 · Comedy, Drama, Fantasy · 1h 47m · PG-13 · English
Curator score: 1.5/10 (1M ratings)
What if you had a universal remote...that controlled your universe?
Overview
A married workaholic, Michael Newman doesn't have time for his wife and children, not if he's to impress his ungrateful boss and earn a well-deserved promotion. So when he meets Morty, a loopy sales clerk, he gets the answer to his prayers: a magical remote that allows him to bypass life's little distractions with increasingly hysterical results.
Ratings
Curator score: 1.5/10
IMDb: 6.4/10
Letterboxd: 2.96/5
Rotten Tomatoes: 34%
Metacritic: 45
TMDB: 6.3/10
Director
Frank Coraci
Production
Original Film, Revolution Studios, Columbia Pictures, Happy Madison Productions
Cast
Adam Sandler, Kate Beckinsale, Christopher Walken, David Hasselhoff, Henry Winkler, Julie Kavner, Sean Astin, Joseph Castanon, Jonah Hill, Jake Hoffman, Tatum McCann, Lorraine Nicholson, Katie Cassidy, Cameron Monaghan, Jennifer Coolidge, Rachel Dratch, Sophie Monk, Michelle Lombardo, Jana Kramer, Nick Swardson
Where to watch
Netflix, fuboTV, Netflix Standard with Ads
Curator Review
Verdict
Click starts as a broad Adam Sandler comedy, then swerves into a surprisingly sincere, melancholy fable about work, family, and regret. The tonal whiplash is the point, and it lands for viewers who can accept a crude studio comedy becoming a tearjerker about time, mortality, and missed moments.
Best for
Viewers who like high-concept comedies with a sentimental streak
Fans of movies about work-life balance and second chances
People open to a goofy premise turning unexpectedly emotional
Adam Sandler fans who enjoy his more earnest, family-centered roles
Skip if
You want a consistently sharp or sophisticated comedy
You dislike crude humor and broad slapstick
You prefer subtle emotional storytelling over obvious life lessons
You get frustrated by tonal shifts from raunchy jokes to heavy melodrama
Overview
Click is a classic mid-2000s studio comedy that keeps mutating under your feet. For a long stretch, it plays like a crude wish-fulfillment gag machine, with Sandler doing what he does best: turning immaturity, frustration, and domestic chaos into a string of easy laughs. The premise is simple and very effective, because the fantasy of skipping the boring parts of life is instantly relatable.
Worth noting
What gives the movie its staying power is the way it pivots into something sadder and more reflective. Beneath the fart jokes and fast-forward antics is a blunt argument that ambition can hollow out your life if you let convenience do the living for you. It is messy, obvious, and sometimes overplayed, but the emotional turn is real enough to catch people off guard.
Bottom line
The result is a film that works better as a strange family fable than as a straight comedy. If you can forgive the broadness, it has a genuine ache at its center and a few scenes that stick because they are so unexpectedly earnest. If you cannot, the tonal swings will feel like a prank. Either way, it is hard to call it forgettable.
Top Letterboxd reviews
pynechone (4★) · 8388 likes
this is a good movie you fucks
James (Schaffrillas) · 5208 likes
I came into this world in a hospital that no longer stands.
The unfortunate truth about our awesome and terrible existence as a species is that the institutions we create will not last forever. Doors will be shuttered, and as the generations march on, so too will our life's work be lost to the cold, unfeeling annals of History.
However, this sentiment need not apply to art.
Indeed, our creations meant to challenge and entertain audiences may endure long after… more
kangadoodoo (1.5★) · 3217 likes
I didn't expect to cry, but I did.
chloe 💓 (2.5★) · 2134 likes
a little too similar to the way i play sims 4
Eliza (5★) · 2057 likes
the premise is that capitalism makes balancing work and home life impossible and that to get ahead, you have to put your brain on auto-pilot and neglect your own happiness, damn
basically it’s a wonderful life 2 once the initial happy madison production type antics stop
2006 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · 1h 53m · PG-13 · Curator 5.7/10 (415.6K ratings) · Where to watch: Amazon Prime Video, Peacock Premium, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Peacock Premium Plus
A contemporary fantasy-comedy with a similar blend of whimsy, mortality, and self-reckoning.