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Movie review from The Movie Snob

Click (B-). I saw this flick at the dollar theater and thought I got more than my money's worth. Here Adam Sandler plays yet another reasonably ordinary guy (like in Spanglish), married to a gorgeous wife (Kate Beckinsale), with two cute kids. But he's under a huge amount of stress at work (he's an architect), and it is starting affect his home life too. That's when he comes into possession of a magical "universal remote control" that actually works on the world around him. Dog barking? Just hit mute. Stuck in traffic? Just hit fast-forward. Arguing with your wife, stuck at a boring family dinner, desperate for that promotion at work? Fast forward to the rescue. Be warned that the first half of the movie is really quite bad--lots of profanity and other vulgarity, and simply not funny. But about halfway through the movie morphs into a rather serious and thoughtful meditation about life, with a strong Cat's in the Cradle message to it. And, I might add, Kate Beckinsale is really extremely attractive. I'm about to switch my allegiance from Nicole Kidman to Ms. Beckinsale. It's true.