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Gooey, Capra-esque plea for respectability from Sandler
By CHRIS WANGLER  |  June 28, 2006
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In his latest and possibly most banal plea for respect, Adam Sandler plays an architect trying to juggle the demands of family and work. When he comes across a universal remote that allows him to skip around the special-edition DVD of his dreary life, he starts to take control of his destiny. The device runs amok, of course, jumping ahead to cheesy visions of a successful but loveless future. Most of the gags in Frank Coraci's bland mix of reality and fantasy are too predictable to be funny (the family dog dry-humping a stuffed duck?), but at least we’re spared a glimpse of Sandler’s gooey center until the end, when a jarring deus ex machina causes our mock-Capraesque hero to realize The True Meaning Of Life: hot sex with his wife (Kate Beckinsale, looking and acting like a Hanes underwear model) and aw-shucks children who ask questions like “Are you shitting me?” and “Did you smoke crack today, Daddy?”
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