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crash05 [ 3.0 ]
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What kind of movie was this? Comedy or drama. The trailers and teasers made it out to be a comedy. Poor presentatation. Far from comedy, at least the last 2/3 of the film i consider to be drama. I was expecting to laugh my ass off and i barely cracked a smile, a few yawns maybe. It was like "it's a wonderful life" and "christmas carol" in one. It was certainly not what i was expecting, so therefore I found it hard to take the drama seriously. I just wasn't quite sure what i was watching.
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DokBrowne [ 2.0 ]
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Contains scenes near the end that could have made me cry if they were done better and surrounded by a superior film. Even though the plot is a "Christmas Carol"/"Wonderful Life"/"Bruce Almighty"/"Bicentennial Man" retread, it has definite potential as a tearjerker. Unfortunately, it's an Adam Sandler movie, and not in the "50 First Dates" mold, which means what we mostly get is (VERY) appalling humor and phony, unearned pathos. The premise introduces many directions for the creativity to go exploring, but it uses only the stupidest, most simplistic ones. And instead of being just another annoying dud on his resume, it ends up being something much worse because of the obvious goodness that COULD have resulted, but didn't, because the dramatic impact is so fumbled, the characters (specifically Sandler) so one-note and unsympathetic to begin with (even Scrooge was more lovable than this asshole), the logic damnable (for one thing, why not just pause time to get things done? And why is he sometimes able to watch the fast forwarding from a detached POV but other times caught up in it uncontrollably?), and the humor...ugh.
At least Christopher Walken delivered his lines oddly. He knows how to entertain even in the direst of circumstances
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Cookeyface [ 7.5 ]
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As a fan of Adam Sandler and his movies, this one was not as good as his usual (i.e. Wedding Singer, Big Daddy). Exactly like Bruce Almighty accept "God" is the remote control, Michael Newman (Sandler) can do time travel and change is life for the better at his command. On the way he learns the true value of friendship and life. Would recommend if you have nothing else to see.
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Dancing_P [ 5.0 ]
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The concept is fairly promising: a man is given a remote control to his life. He can fast-forward through boring moments, pause when things get heated, turn down the volume when his wife nags him... unfortunately, that's basically all he does. There's so much potential in the concept and what the main character could actually do with such a tool, it's hugely disappointing to see that the whole thing is basically a Christmas Carol/Groundhog Day remix. I suppose it's foolish to expect anythin more than cookie-cutter blandness from Adam Sandler but the film's second half seems to prove otherwise. After a tedious opening act built mostly around timeworn humping-dog jokes and redheaded child torture, the movie takes a surprisingly sentimental turn when the remote decides to fast-forward on its own. There are a handful of scenes contained here that are genuinely moving; they seem to come out of an other movie entirely and hint at something much greater. Click cops out with the oldest trick in the book by the end, lessening (but not quite negating) the impact of those few scenes.Still, its heart seems to be in the right place even if the actions aren't exactly backing it up. I know Sandler and his cohorts can do better (or at least I can convince myself every time I watch The Wedding Singer); they just don't seem to be trying very hard.
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chapter11 [ 5.5 ]
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I agree with DokBrowne, but somehow i managed to come up with a higher rating. The reason for that, i think, is because i'm enough of a shmuck that i really was caught up in the dramatic impact of several scenes, despite the characters, just because i felt a serious sense of "hmm, what if?" that allowed me to connect with everything. But, yeah, i have the feeling that if this film had been taken seriously, without the fat jokes and man-titties and ethnic stereotypes and dick jokes and dog-fucking-plush-toy jokes (seriously, how far into the ground do they run that one? we get it, hollywood, dogs hump things on occasion), "Click" could honestly have been something truly special. Hell, with a better actor-- or, more fairly, a more focused script, because the fading memories of "Punch-Drunk Love" and "Spanglish" (even though "Spanglish" was mostly shit) still have me hoping Sandler will set aside all this Happy Madison horseshit aside more often and try honing some real chops-- i bet i would have wept my ass off at this one. I don't know if i should be giving or docking points for potential, so i'm gonna leave this one in the middle of the road, and remind everybody that, hey, this is practically "It's a Wonderful Life" coming on the heels of "The Longest Fucking Yard".
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| Weighted Rating | : 5.1 |
| No. Ratings | : 8 | |
| No. Reviews | : 6 | |
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