Click
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: June 23, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
45
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Mixed or average reviews based on 35 Critic Reviews
Positive:
11
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14
Negative:
10
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
One of the best American films of the year so far. Read full review
80
Dallas ObserverLuke Y. Thompson
Not everything jells, but Click is funnier and more elaborately clever than anything Sandler's done in years. Read full review
80
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
This comic fantasy is the best vehicle he's (Sandler) ever had, a high-concept goof that gradually darkens into an emotional nightmare reminiscent of Capra. Read full review
75
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
There are times when the comedian falls back on his typical shtick, but the film doesn't shy away from the darkness inherent in this kind of story, and it has a heart. Read full review
75
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
Last week, the American Film Institute named "It's a Wonderful Life" the most inspiring movie in the history of the English language. The film was initially a flop, but it's now considered so perfect that nobody would dare remake it - under that title. Folks who see Click will have no trouble connecting the dots. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
The movie is gag-filled, as you would expect of a Sandler movie, but the filmmakers realize they have hit upon an idea that is both clever and good, so they edge their comedy into some darker areas of human behavior. Read full review
70
SlateDana Stevens
Click manages to sneak some surprisingly moving moments in between the gross-out gags and the schmaltzy resolutions. Read full review
67
Baltimore SunChris Kaltenbach
The emotions seem genuine enough, even if Sandler is not a talented-enough actor to always pull them all off. Read full review
67
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
An unsteady mishmash of snot-nosed humor and treacly Hollywood sentimentality. Read full review
63
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
A near-saving grace is Christopher Walken, perfectly cast as the creepy store clerk who gives Michael the magic remote, then follows him through life like a gleefully incompetent guardian angel. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeTy Burr
If it doesn't quite represent the new, improved Adam Sandler, it shows him almost desperately trying to figure out who that might be. Read full review
60
L.A. WeeklyScott Foundas
After an hour of predictably sophomoric antics involving foulmouthed kids, compulsively self-pleasuring canines and the rampant objectification of women, Click turns into a surrealist death dream in which Sandler's masochistic impulses flower onscreen as never before. Read full review
60
NewsweekDavid Ansen
As a moral fable Click holds no surprises; as a Sandler comedy, it's unusually dark, occasionally touching and pretty funny. Read full review
60
Village VoiceMichael Atkinson
De rigueur hypocritical as it may be coming from Hollywood, Click is a cultural critique, with the dull blade and impact of a battle-ax... But it's a farce about loss, and it doesn't flinch. Read full review
60
EmpireSam Toy
Another 'nice' Sandler comedy that works, thanks to some smart and genuinely moving ideas at its core. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
Charlie Kaufman could have made a great movie out of Click, a soupy existential comedy about a "universal remote" that lets a man magically rewind, fast-forward, and pause his life. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldConnie Ogle
A sporadically funny, always predictable, weirdly downbeat fantasy. Read full review
50
USA TodayClaudia Puig
Despite its ultra-formulaic premise and juvenile sense of humor, there are a few laughs, and the movie's heart is generally in the right place, with the notable exception of racist characterizations of an Arab prince and Japanese businessmen. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
An uneasy mix of frat-boy yocks and "Twilight Zone"-style science-fiction. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
It's not just sad, it's brutal. There's an undercurrent of cold, detached cruelty in the way Michael uses the magical device. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
The only effect is to produce that most commonplace of Hollywood paradoxes -- a mood simultaneously frantic and listless. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
At times dark and at other times gooey. Read full review
40
VarietyJustin Chang
Adam Sandler's recent low-key phase continues with this cleverly conceived but conspicuously unfunny comedy. Read full review
40
Film ThreatPete Vonder Haar
The problem with Sandler’s latest movies is that he now feels the need to inject some sort of dramatic conflict in order to complete his character’s shallow story arc of maturation/redemption. Introducing such mawkish sentimentality causes the humor level in his films, never that elevated to begin with, to sink like America’s credibility overseas. Read full review
40
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
I don't think any of it really hangs together as anything resembling drama, or that Michael is ever a remotely likable character, before or after his day of reckoning. But Adam Sandler didn't get where he is today by making movies for me and Roger Ebert to like. Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
Aside from influences such as "A Christmas Carol" and "It's a Wonderful Life," Click is so much like the Jim Carrey vehicle "Bruce Almighty"--Steve Koren and Mark O'Keefe worked on both--the writers could sue themselves for plagiarism and then write a screenplay about it. Read full review
38
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
If the moral of Click is a stop-and-smell-the-roses bromide about how family comes first, the real message of this sappy, potty-mouthed seriocomedy is that a steady diet of Drakes and Hostesses will do you no good. Read full review
38
New York PostLou Lumenick
Rarely have I wanted to fast-forward through a movie as much as Click, a treacly and not-funny-enough Adam Sandler comedy. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
Sandler is a post-Catskills goldmine of potential, he always has been, and when he's willing to break with tradition (a là Punch Drunk Love), he's downright revelatory. Not this time, though. This time he's just dying. Read full review
30
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
Following the lead tendered by the credited screenwriters, Steve Koren and Mark O'Keefe, the director Frank Coraci struggles to push the character toward the kind of age-appropriate complexity lost on Mr. Sandler, forgetting that his star only works when, as all those ponderous bosoms suggest, he's un-weaned. Read full review
25
PremiereNicole Schmuelien
Click is yet another uninspired Adam Sandler goof-fest with a long suffering leading lady, mildly bawdy gags--see Joe Schomo oogle female jogger--and a predictable ending. Read full review
25
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Can no one save the talented Sandler from himself? I hate this movie. Click. I hate this movie. Click. I hate this movie. Click. Read full review
25
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
It's an unimaginative, mean-spirited affair that makes you hate yourself for laughing at it, and it's so devoid of anything close to wit, subtlety or sophistication that it stands as damning evidence that Hollywood has surrendered wholesale to stupidity and crassness. Read full review
20
Washington PostStephen Hunter
A crass physical comedy of unrelenting irrelevance with a gag or two amid the many other examples of bad taste, extrapolating toward infinite on the theme of remote control reality. Read full review
10
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
An abomination.
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