Click: The Worst Movie | Big Joel

I disagree with you and you come off untrustworthy

I love click

Thank you for putting so much time in to explaining why this film always felt wrong to me.

glad you‘re not taking „wash my balls“ completely off the table heheh

Adam sandler always happens to be in some of the worst and most offensive movies of all time it seems

watched this for 8 minutes and could tell there was nothing really being said.

Click is a masterpiece

its the context that you're failing to get. Now, lets say i get the context, the movie still sucks. just saying.

I don't know who you are but I loved this video

dumbass

Speaking of taking someone down a notch, you're the new absolute worst.

i watched this movie while i was in the psych ward and it made me want to recover so i could be discharged and wouldnt have to risk seeing it again

You remind me so much of my friend Alex. We would totally get along.

You are corny

Why the Clickphobia? Dont be Clickphobic, bro.

I think the message of click is good but the message is so drowned out by the result, this movie makes you feel things, sadness, joy for the ending but you never feel bad for Adam you feel bad that his family members have to go through so much because of him

It is a very boring movie. Not a Sandler fan at all but this one really sucks

This guy has some of the BEST takes... this is not one of them

“The movie hates fat people” why the hell did the 2000s hate fat people so much

So i saw Click as a kid in theaters. And honestly thinking back on it i totally forgot that it was a comedy. I always remebered it as a dark drama about a man racing through life and destroying everything he loves.

this is crazy because this is one of my favorite movies lol

This is the most God-tier scathing movie review ever. This is art😂 that end song 🤣🤣

Bold of you to call it the worst when Jack and Jill exists

when i realized adam’s mom was played by julie kavner i flipped

When he started taking coincidences I lost it 😂

The best*

I think you kind of miss the point here.
Click is a unique Sandler movie. The moral of the story is that life is meaningless without Jesus.
Clearly the main character put his faith in too many things that beyrayed him. And Christopher Walken isn't an angel of death, hes Satan. The remote is like a monkeys paw. You get your wish but youre not going to like it, which is why Morty lies. He decieves Sandler just as Satan does.

I've got a super tedious task at work and need to have background noise - This seemed appropriate.

Throwing a flag on the play for calling him misogynistic for saying she shouldn't cheat on her man. Flip the genders and BJ is definitely on Adam's side.

Can you possibly review Journey to Promethea

you have to be slow

That scene where Michael berated the girl for cheating could’ve easily been fixed if we had an earlier scene where it shows Michael was friends with one of the men she cheated on.
That way it at least makes sense why he would be petty towards the person or disgusted with her. It would also make it more satisfying because we’ve seen the damage she’s done.

The premise is interesting, though. I would probably exclusively use the rewind. I could watch the first lecture on an academic topic, rewind, and watch the second. Essentially, I would turn it into groundhogs day so I couls learn a bunch of stuff and get 100% on all my tests.

Maybe "Click" is just a horror movie in disguise. The protagonist continues being an asshole because this is a trope for horror movie victims. And losing control to some kind of magic force is an element of horror too. And so is an unjust world where good people get punished.

this video is soooooo much better than an hour long discussion of the 2007 Adam Sandler movie Click

Little did he know, it didn't work itself out.

I watched Click with my boyfriend last night and I couldn't get past him wanting to sleep with his daughter and I kept yelling at the TV. We were both cheering for Donna marrying someone else and we were both anticipating "it was all just a dream" and were so mad when he got to stay with someone he never showed any love or compassion toward.

Here's my take after watching Click last night for the first time in over a decade with my boyfriend who had never seen it: we went in expecting a bad comedy that wouldn't serve as a good story but were were hoping we could laugh at in a nostalgic sense. Im not an Adam Sandler fan, so I knew it wouldn't be laugh-out-loud funny to me, but my goodness, it was more painful than I expected.

Obviously we expected 2006 comedy to be offensive, but I forgot how much Adam Sandler specifically loves punching down at minority groups and giving himself a job where he works with international clients was purely to be a vehicle for that. And the transphobia applied to women he isn't attracted to is horrible.

And then when it comes to the actual storyline, all of the morals are unearned. He is meant to be unlikable, but they give us emotional scenes through others, not through him. Yeah, seeing someone treat their dying father badly will always be a sad scene, but that doesn't come through character development or lessons learned; it's just a generally sad thing that audience members will connect to.

He gets the clicker, learns its powers in a negative way, and has consequences. But it doesn't seem like he's mad that he chose work over family, he's more mad about aging and having memory gaps - which would scare anyone regardless of what the clicker fast-forwarded through. Going from age 30 to age 50 without having the memories is going to be a punishment regardless of whether we morally agree with what the user of the remote valued.

He ultimately decides that choosing work was the problem, but the reality isn't that he was working too much. The problem is that he was awful to his family. He talked down his wife and treated her reasonable existence as a burden. That was never a consequence of work, that was a consequence of his disrespect and disdain toward women. If he can't go camping, then that sucks for the whole family, but why does the whole trip need to be cancelled for everyone else? They can still go, but he needs to make his overworking seem virtuous and family-driven when it's really just a decision he's making for himself. He likes work which is absolutely okay, but he doesn't have the awareness to understand that he is a bad husband and father regardless of whether he's present or not. I don't have any reason to believe that him working less will improve his relationship with his family because he makes it clear he doesn't like or respect them.

Even as he "learns", he treats his adolescent and then adult kids poorly. His daughter, primarily, continued to be reduced to an object.

Overall, I don't believe that he regrets his decision to use the remote because he wishes that he had used it more wisely, but purely because it shortened his life. That's an obvious thing to be upset about, so the morality of it being about his choices isn't landing for me.

I wish they just leaned into the sci-fi over lessons and actually let him die after playing with time, as an obvious natural consequence for fast-forwarding through life. Him laying on the ground in the rain saying not to take things for granted would have been more satisfying and earned. (I also find it hilarious that they all just accepted him as dead instead of calling for medical attention from the hospital they were all right beside.)

Overall, this movie was a big miss for me, even in the context of going in expecting the 2006 face-palms. It wasn't funny, the sci-fi rules were inconsistent, and the lessons weren't applied as he got a consequence-free do over.

The sci-fi rules were so murky. I get fast-forwarding being programmed by behavior, but it wasn't consistent. He fast-forwards through a cold once but the remote interprates that as all illness now after one time? Unless it's taking his words at higher value than his choice in skipping, and therefore "being sick" is the queue it takes instead of "not feeling well". But wouldn't he have the lead-up to the cancer diagnosis and periods where he's feeling well to be present in? But instead of fast-forwarding the "not feeling well" part, the remote fast forwards blanket states of sickness. And for the second promotion, he literally says the words "I don't want to be promoted", so where is the line between words and remote usage?

Im okay with suspension of disbelief, but the clicker isn't being treated as the punishment that it actually is, it's being treated as a good-faith tool that is just being misused. If the clicker deems something a pattern after one use, then even the most likable character who values what is deemed virtuous is going to have their life skipped by with this remote.

We also got to root for his wife doing better by moving on from him only to go back to seeing her in the bad marriage with the guy who doesn't respect her. That freaking sucked. And he announces that he's going to change by using that awful fight tone, which I didn't even pick up on his words in because I tuned him out. How is this satisfying? She got out and I was so happy for her, but now she's being punished so he can have a character development arch? In which he immediately sexualizes his daughter again.

Hopefully Janine still gets to move to Moracco during his do-over! She doesn't need to be another casualty of his character arch.

The “dad who works too hard” trope is one that came to prominence in the 90s and should have died in the 2000s after the Bush economy ruined everything. The fact that Sandler thought it was still a worthwhile trope to use in this film speaks to his laziness as a filmmaker.

The concept of the movie click was done better by a 15 minute segment in the game The Stanley Parable

The song was shockingly good

It’s no question that Michael is pretty bad but like he’s criticizing the woman for sleeping with people outside of a committed relationship not just because she’s a woman having the sex she wants. I dunno it feels kinda odd how Joel doesn’t engage with that fact in his analysis as it seems like pretty important context for why the viewer is supposed to side with Michael in the scene

I was just listening when you said "I feel uncomfortable just calling a human woman ugly," and I thought "well the part was probably for 'ugly office worker' or something, she no doubt knew what she was getting into" and then I looked and saw it was Rachel Dratch and I was just like okay psh nevermind, this woman has been doing that role forever and I would give my life for her, she's fine lmao

This made me realize I love Its A Wonderful Life so much

I just tried to re-watch Click for the first time since I was in middle school... all I can say is THANK YOU for this hour-long takedown, I was so furious I needed to validate my anger somewhere. Talk about an unfunny, poorly acted movie full of incredibly sexist and racist boomer humor.

I will always remember dragging my grandmother to see this with me. And the awkward disappointing ride back after. Ugh.

im losing it over the singing sequence in the end its so good