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Would you grab an opportunity to be able to control your life and the way your life is influenced by other people? What if suddenly, a strange but kindhearted man gives you a tool like a remote control to well, control your life with just the click of a finger?

I believe most of us would grab the opportunity to be god and to rule over his life and the lives of others. I mean what kind of person would pass away that chance of being an omnipotent being who can rewind his life, go fast forward to check on his future and click pause or stop if he wants to do other things or if he simply no longer wants to be in a specific episode in his life?

But try to watch Click, starring Adam Sandler as the busy and highly ambitious architect who was so busy earning a living and pushing his career he no longer had time for his family and even for himself, and you may want to change your mind.

I have never been a fan of Sandler although I have seen some of his slapstick movies. But after watching Click, I know I will always look forward to seeing him again in another movie. But that is giving away my good reviews and praises for Click which I assure you is an A-one movie that everyone must see!

I thought Click was a comedy knowing Sandler's forte and I was not disappointed because it really made me laugh all throughout the movie. What with the shebang antique of Sandler's dog and his stuffed duck which I refuse to dignify here so I will not talk about it. If you are so curious then why not watch the movie?

To get back on track, Sandler is a workaholic architect whose major problem is how to be able to choose the right remote control for their home gadgets. Funny how he clicks the remote control to watch television only to find out that he clicked the garage remote control instead.

Tired of this everyday fiasco with the remote, Sandler walks out of the house and goes to a nearby store to look for a universal remote control. He finally got one which has never been market tested before and has not even been introduced to the market. What is good is that the universal remote control is free but with the caveat that it is not returnable.

"But why would I return something which I got for free," Sandler asked Morty (Christopher Walken), the storekeeper who still looked like Dracula to me. So Sandler gets home and discovers that he can control the pissing time of his dog with just a click of the fast forward button.

He thought he was already going out of his mind when he finds out that he can even click the stop button and go look for other channels when he does not want what is before him like that scene when his wife's friend Janine (Cathie Coolidge) starts her monologue about how she has been ignored and betrayed by her past husbands.

Sandler becomes so dependent on his remote that he clicks on the fast forward button when it suits him like when he wants to spend some time with his family but is burdened by work, or when he has to give back massages to his wife Donna (Kate Beckinsale) before she allows him to make love to her and a lot of other incidents.

He is also able to control his career and promotion thanks to the remote control because he finds out what the Asian visitors like about their place and then he suggests they go there to the delight of his boss Mr. Ammer (David Hasselhoff). His trouble starts when he spends money he did not have to buy presents for his family, believing that he was already promoted!

The fast forward buttons shows Sandler that his promotion was not due in the near future but in over a year. So where would he get the money to pay for those things? How to return the new bike when his son says it was already given by his dad so why should they return it to the store?

He has no choice but to click on the fast forward to that time when he is already promoted and already an associate of Mr. Annar. The problem is, he gets more work and work and work and he has began to rely on the remote control to run his life and career.

But Sandler's dilemma really starts when the remote control starts to operate on its own and chooses the part of Sandler's life to be lived in fast forward! He could not longer control the remote but his attempt to return it to Morty proved futile because as Morty said "the remote is not returnable!"

The comedy becomes horrific and tragic when Sandler finds out that he has missed out on some of the most important parts of his life like the growing up of his children and the estrangement between him and his wife who, as it turned out, was already married to another guy!

The worst part, Sandler realized, is that he has become the owner of the company he has been working for and has become so busy and so self centered he was not even with his dad when the latter passed away. The scene where Sandler tries to go back to that moment when his father died became tragic when Morty told him he can never rewind the remote to that time because he was never there!

Sandler finds himself alone and lonely and even a stranger to his son and daughter who has started to call their stepdad "dad". Sandler saw his son Ben get married and then himself having a heart attack and dying without even experiencing his own life just because the remote keeps on fast forwarding his life for him.

This movie made me laugh but it really made me cry buckets of tears near the end when Sandler died alone and lonely just because he had no time for his family. This movie should make us think about our priorities in life. Watch this movie and I tell you, it would.