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Monday, June 26, 2006

Movie Review part deux: Click

By Sandra Li

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A workaholic architect, who has been overlooking his family in favor of his career, comes across a universal remote that allows him to perform TiVo-like functions on his life, such as pausing events or fast-forwarding over them. When the remote begins creating its own memory and choosing what to fast-forward over, the man sees how much of his personal life has passed him by and realizes the importance of spending more time with his family.

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Michael Newman, an overachieving work-addict played by Adam Sandler, is climbing up the job latter in his high-pressured career. However, back at home things quickly turn sour. Michael just can’t find the time to spend with his wife and kids. At the push of a button, the universal remote control skips over his miseries until he arrives at a better time in his life. However, life slips away before his eyes when the universal remote control becomes too user friendly.

Surprisingly, this absurd, good-humored movie wasn’t a cliché as I expected. It became appealing to me as I happily discovered it was given over to a theme Hollywood usually doesn’t address, which is family comes first. I couldn’t find a better way than to describe it as learning not to “chase after a pot of gold–it’s just cornflakes.” By pursuing a dream that could make you a multi-millionaire, just like lovable Mike, you might loose sight of those you love and moments you can never buy with money once lost. After a close-to-tragic final, we learned that you can’t just skip over the bad moments in life without taking away the memorable ones.

Also check out Alex Bentley's take on this film.

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