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Gooey, Capra-esque plea for respectability from Sandler

By CHRIS WANGLER | June 28, 2006

1.0 Stars

CLICK: A comedy with Christopher Walken? Why didn't someone think of that before!

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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