CLICK – Movie #41

This movie was retarded. It won me over in the last 45 minutes or so, when the movie really went over the deep end. There were a few moments that elicited genuine laughter. Is that all it takes for a Hollywood movie to succeed? In a way it pisses me off, because Hollywood movies are pretty much weak, asinine TV pilots with 50 million dollar budgets. I haven’t watched a straight-up Hollywood movie in awhile, and I forgot how lame they are, really. They’re basically two-hour commercials. I hate the commercialism (I’m not going to eat Twinkies no matter how many times I see the damn box onscreen, hello!), crass sexism, racism, and idiotic lowest-common-denominator factor. I hate the way every female extra clearly just came from the “extra stable” of overly thin and surgeried women.
I did laugh at this film, but honestly – that’s a fluke of writing and the chemistry of the actors. When Adam Sandler finds the remote control in the fat folds of his belly, that makes me laugh. When Christopher Walken wears puffy red earmuffs, that makes me laugh. But Adam Sandler JUST did a “family lesson” movie last year, called Spanglish. That was a touching and honest movie which I recommended to a lot of people. This movie, Click? I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone.