 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 sold as a comedy," he writes, "but you know what? This isn't funny. ... I am not sure if this story device could possibly have been made funny." Likewise Rick Groen in the Toronto Globe and Mail calls the movie "a premise in wandering pursuit of a movie." Stephen Hunter in the Washington Post also found the film more "aggressively hostile" than funny. "It's the humor of a bullied boy striking back at his tormentors without fear of retaliation," he writes, adding hostilely: "Halfway through the film ... I was the one wishing for a remote. I'd have hit that Off button so fast it'd make your nose bleed." Philip Wuntch in the Dallas Morning News and Lou Lumenick in the New York Post each sums up the movie in two identical words: "Click doesn't." |
