Now Playing
Critics & Publications
Archives: A-Z Index
Advanced Search

Upcoming Release Calendar
Weekend Box Office
Film Awards & Top 10s By Year
All-Time High Scores
All-Time Low Scores
How Metascores Are Calculated
Discuss Film In Our Forums

sort by name

sort by score

34 10,000 B.C.
55 Baby Mama
62 Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, The
36 College Road Trip
xx Dark Knight, The
31 Deception
41 Drillbit Taylor
57 Forbidden Kingdom, The
67 Forgetting Sarah Marshall
54 Get Smart
49 Hancock
34 Happening, The
57 Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
xx Hellboy II: The Golden Army
71 Horton Hears a Who!
61 Incredible Hulk, The
65 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
79 Iron Man
35 Jumper
73 Kung Fu Panda
24 Love Guru, The
37 Made of Honor
xx Mamma Mia!
58 Mist, The
48 National Treasure: Book of Secrets
55 Nim's Island
22 Postal
69 Redbelt
44 Ruins, The
53 Sex and the City: The Movie
76 Shine a Light
37 Shutter
37 Speed Racer
61 Stop Loss
47 Strangers, The
55 Street Kings
33 Superhero Movie
93 WALL-E
64 Wanted
36 What Happens in Vegas...
54 You Don't Mess with the Zohan

Stars indicate the most critically-acclaimed movies.

sort by name

sort by score

83 Alexandra
80 Band's Visit, The
76 Beauty in Trouble
47 Bella
80 Bigger, Stronger, Faster*
59 Blind Mountain
55 Bra Boys
60 Brick Lane
70 Caramel
49 Children of Huang Shi, The
83 Chop Shop
83 Chris & Don. A Love Story
78 Counterfeiters, The
52 Diminished Capacity
64 Dreams with Sharp Teeth
73 Duchess of Langeais, The
84 Edge of Heaven, The
52 Elsa & Fred
79 Encounters at the End of the World
62 Expired
64 Fall, The
51 Finding Amanda
57 Flawless
86 Flight of the Red Balloon, The
63 Foot Fist Way, The
60 Fugitive Pieces
45 Full Grown Men
55 Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
69 Go-Getter, The
74 Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
63 Gunnin for that #1 Spot
68 Heartbeat Detector
34 Holding Trevor
68 Honeydripper
55 Irina Palm
69 Jellyfish
60 Jihad for Love, A
68 Kabluey
62 Kiss the Bride
63 Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
82 Last Mistress, The
38 Life Before Her Eyes, The
70 Love Songs
64 Married Life
30 Meet Bill
33 Miss Conception
53 Mister Lonely
74 Mongol
52 Mother of Tears, The
52 My Blueberry Nights
71 My Brother Is an Only Child
84 My Winnipeg
61 On the Rumba River
69 Operation Filmmaker
61 OSS 117: Cairo - Nest of Spies
83 Paranoid Park
72 Priceless
51 Promotion, The
55 Quid Pro Quo
29 Red Roses and Petrol
79 Reprise
71 Roman de gare
56 Sangre de mi sangre
51 Savage Grace
76 Shotgun Stories
66 Son of Rambow
70 Standard Operating Procedure
62 Stuck
72 Surfwise
81 Tell No One
56 Then She Found Me
xx Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic
71 To the Limit
54 Tracey Fragments, The
70 Trumbo
72 Tuya's Marriage
83 U2 3D
56 Unknown Woman
86 Up the Yangtze
79 Visitor, The
62 Wackness, The
37 War, Inc.
64 Water Lilies
66 When Did You Last See Your Father?
55 Without the King
72 Woman on the Beach
64 XXY
67 Year My Parents Went on Vacation, The
75 Young@Heart

Stars indicate the most critically-acclaimed movies.

Click
Sony Pictures Releasing


7.1

based on 35 reviews
Read critic reviews
How did we calculate this?

based on 112 votes
Read user comments
Rate this movie

FILM:

MPAA RATING: PG-13 for language, crude and sex-related humor, and some drug references

Starring Adam Sandler, Kate Beckinsale, Christopher Walken, David Hasselhoff, Henry Winkler, Julie Kavner, Sean Astin, and Jennifer Coolidge

When an overworked architect (Sandler) finds a universal remote that lets him control his universe, he feels a rush of power. But before he knows it, the remote is programming him, rather than the other way around. (Sony)

GENRE(S):	Comedy \| Drama \| Fantasy
WRITTEN BY:	Steve Koren Mark O'Keefe
DIRECTED BY:	Frank Coraci
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: October 10, 2006 Theatrical: June 23, 2006
RUNNING TIME:	98 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	USA

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

100

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

One of the best American films of the year so far.

Chicago Reader J.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.

Dallas Observer Luke Y. Thompson

Not everything jells, but Click is funnier and more elaborately clever than anything Sandler's done in years.

ReelViews James 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.

Charlotte Observer Lawrence 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.

The Hollywood Reporter Kirk 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.

Slate Dana Stevens

Click manages to sneak some surprisingly moving moments in between the gross-out gags and the schmaltzy resolutions.

Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy

An unsteady mishmash of snot-nosed humor and treacly Hollywood sentimentality.

Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach

The emotions seem genuine enough, even if Sandler is not a talented-enough actor to always pull them all off.

Boston Globe Ty 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.

New York Daily News Jack 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.

Newsweek David Ansen

As a moral fable Click holds no surprises; as a Sandler comedy, it's unusually dark, occasionally touching and pretty funny.

Village Voice Michael 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.

LA Weekly Scott 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.

Empire Sam Toy

Another 'nice' Sandler comedy that works, thanks to some smart and genuinely moving ideas at its core.

Miami Herald Connie Ogle

A sporadically funny, always predictable, weirdly downbeat fantasy.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott 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.

Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

At times dark and at other times gooey.

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.

USA Today Claudia 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.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

An uneasy mix of frat-boy yocks and "Twilight Zone"-style science-fiction.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger 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.

Film Threat Pete 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.

Salon.com Andrew 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.

Variety Justin Chang

Adam Sandler's recent low-key phase continues with this cleverly conceived but conspicuously unfunny comedy.

Chicago Tribune Michael 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.

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven 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.

New York Post Lou Lumenick

Rarely have I wanted to fast-forward through a movie as much as Click, a treacly and not-funny-enough Adam Sandler comedy.

The New York Times Manohla 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.

Austin Chronicle Marc 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.

Rolling Stone Peter 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.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer William 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.

Premiere Nicole 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.

Washington Post Stephen 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.

Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

An abomination.

The average user rating for this movie is 7.1 (out of 10) based on 112 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Gerrick C. gave it a4:
There are certainly better comedies out there than Click. The movie in my opinion takes a long time to gain steam and get funny. I don't think this movie is fit for purchase, but it is suitable for a weekend rental.

ray s. gave it a1:
Trite, banal, predictable. Represents Hollywood moviemaking for the masses, if the masses are asses. Full of product placement also. Gotta make that money! Ka ching!

Nicholai R. gave it a9:
One of the best Sandler films I have seen in years. It did feel like the film was cut in to two parts, you could see where the film was going and how it would end but it was well put together and the effects in the later half of the film was stunning. Supporting cast put on a great show and this film could bring a tear to your eye if it wasn't Sandler.

Gino M. gave it a2:
This move was painful. I mean that in the purest sense...it was truly painful to watch a corny director parade Adam Sandler around in his fleeting loose-ended adaptation of It's A Wonderful Life.

Mathew H. gave it a2:
Uneven, juvenile, base, simple-minded. It's the perfect product aimed at the sweet succulent money paying midpoint on the bell curve of America. That's why this guy is box-office gold. It's like sloppin' the hogs. Just throw it out there and watch 'em feed.

Marianne gave it a2:
The premise was promising, however, the execution was dim-witted.

Jared B. gave it a9:
This was easily one of Adam Sandler's funniest movies. For an hour and fifteen minutes, I did nothing but laugh at this pitiful schlub. However, this movie could have done without it's overly sentimental finale. This movie proved one thing to me: David Hasselhoff CAN act after all. If you can sit through the last fifteen minutes without getting bored, I strongly recommend this otherwise hilarious movie

Click Sony Pictures Releasing

Click
Sony Pictures Releasing