Click (DVD)

Click (2006) starring Adam Sandler, Kate Beckinsale, Christopher Walken, David Hasselhoff. Sandler, as a workaholic architect, discovers a "Universal" remote control which allows him to control real life. He uses it to skip through the bad parts of life, and some of the good. But the catch is, the remote is an intelligent device which learns his preferences and starts automatically controlling his life. Sandler is Scrooge in the last act of A Christmas Carol and George Bailey in the last act of It's a Wonderful Life, learning lessons about life even as he botches his own. It almost works, but I've never been able to actually like Adam Sandler. Grade: B-