Besides Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore, I haven’t been too impressed with many of Adam Sandler’s movies. This one, however, was a good one. It’s interesting to see Sandler — SNL alumnus and fart-joke extraordinaire — attempt to grow more as an actor, as in Punch Drunk Love. With this film, he fuses his signature comedy style with some mature themes of success, family, and time.

Click tackles the idea of speeding through life in an interesting way. The concept of Bed, Bath and “Beyond” was kind of cheesy, but, hey, how else are they going to incorporate something so ludicrous as a univeral remote control for one’s life? Christopher Walken seems to always play the strange old man who tries to take advantage of you. It’s as if casting directors think, “This character is old, eccentric, creepifying, and has bad hair. Quick, get Christopher Walken on the phone!”

I laughed heartily throughout the movie as a result of some tremendously gross jokes. But I also cried (I’m an sensitive person!) nearing the end at certain emotionally charged scenes, especially when Sandler’s character tells his son not to make the same mistake he did. In a twisted and hilarious way, Click is able to leave its audience with the lesson that you should cherish all the moments of life and with your loved ones or it will pass you by with the speed of a fast-forward button. Of course, this is something old people have been telling me for decades. And I still haven’t learned.