Click (film)

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Movie
German title Click
Original title Click
Click.svg
Country of production United States
original language English , Portuguese , Japanese
Publishing year 2006
length 107 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
JMK 0
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Director Frank Coraci
script Steve Koren
Mark O'Keefe
production Jack Giarraputo
Steve Koren
Neal H. Moritz
Mark O'Keefe
Adam Sandler
music Rupert Gregson-Williams
camera Dean Semler
cut Jeff Gourson
occupation

Click is a US comedy film directed by Frank Coraci from the year 2006 with Adam Sandler in the lead role. The film opened in German cinemas on September 28, 2006.

action

Architect Michael Newman desperately wants to be promoted. He therefore takes on every assignment that his boss Ammer has in store for him. Due to his long working days, he increasingly neglects his wife Donna and their two children Ben and Samantha. Since he still has work to do at home, he feels that visiting his parents is a burden and is annoyed by family get-togethers. When he can no longer distinguish between the many remote controls in his living room and keeps switching on the wrong electrical devices, it is enough for him and he drives off to get a universal remote control for all devices. He ends up in a shop called Bed Bath & Beyond . While he was looking for such a remote control, he passed a large bed, in which he spontaneously lay down. Strange noises make him aware of a door that leads to the “Beyond” area. There he meets the quirky-looking Morty, who even gives him a special remote control, but at the same time tells him that he cannot return it.

Back home, Michael quickly discovers the special advantages of this remote control: He can use it not only to control electronic devices, but also his life and so on. B. regulate the volume of other people, pause situations, fast forward or skip entire chapters. He then uses this when skipping unloved situations, such as traffic jams, disputes, illnesses or foreplay to sex with his wife - without knowing, however, that his body goes into the so-called autopilot mode during this time, in which his mind is almost absent that seems impassive. Furthermore, he is not aware that the remote control can learn. This means that the remote control remembers the situations that Michael skipped and activates the skip the next time on its own.

After he has landed a significant job for his boss and believes he will be promoted, he showered his family with expensive gifts. However, his boss has no intention of promoting him yet, but tells him that he has to do a few more things first. Michael now uses the remote control to skip the chapters until his final promotion. Shortly afterwards, however, he realizes that he has skipped a whole year. Later, the remote control automatically causes him to skip another ten years when his boss just mentions a new promotion.

When he comes to, his entire world has completely changed: he and his son Ben have become very overweight, his wife Donna has left him and is now married to Ben's swimming coach (Bill). Michael suffers a concussion during an argument with the two of them. Again, the remote control automatically skips the disease. When he comes to six years later, his wife has remarried, his father has died and Michael is the boss of his own company.

Later, at his father's grave, Michael meets Morty again, who reveals to him that he is the angel of death. Michael wants to relive his last meeting with his father and learns that he had harshly rejected him at work in his office because he felt disturbed at work. Horrified by his own behavior, Michael asks Morty to be taken to a beautiful place and ends up at his son Ben's wedding. When he overhears his daughter Samantha calling her stepfather Bill "Dad", Michael has a heart attack. When he wakes up, his daughter and son are at the bedside with him, and Ben casually mentions that he canceled his honeymoon because he had important work to do.

Michael, who has now realized that he has completely neglected his family by concentrating on his job and that real life has passed him by in fast motion, now wants to prevent his son from making the same mistake as he does by all means. So excited by this realization, his heartbeat increases, causing his children to be sent home by hospital nurses before he can talk to his son. However, Michael overpowers a nurse who wants to hold him back and follows his son outside. But there he collapses on the street. Here his son becomes aware of him and rushes to him. Lying dying, he can once again confess his love to his ex-wife and tell his two children that family is the most important thing in life.

Next, Michael wakes up in Bed Bath & Beyond again . It seems like it was all just a dream. He goes home and resolves to work less and spend more time with his family. Suddenly he finds the special remote control again, wrapped as a gift. Enclosed a message from Morty: "I know you won't make a mistake this time." However, Michael throws it into the trash can without hesitation.

Reviews

The lexicon of international films says: "The comedy, which is burdened with numerous nonsense, never exhausts the tragic potential of the story and takes on rather penetrating traits through poorly timed gags and dialogues."

Mick LaSalle wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle that the film was the best American film of the year.

JR Jones wrote in the Chicago Reader that the film was the best film Sandler had ever starred in.

James Berardinelli wrote on ReelViews that the film was flawed, but it "worked". Berardinelli praised Adam Sandler's portrayal, which a few years ago would not have been possible.

Hannes Brühwiler wrote on Critic.de that the basic constellation of the film was reminiscent of “Harold Ramis' And the Groundhog Day Greetings , whereby this film masters the balancing act between comedy and tragedy much better without unnecessary pathos”. On the other hand, one painfully misses "the subtle nuances that characterize Ramis' comedy" in Klick.

backgrounds

  • This is the second feature film (after Superman Returns ), the digital movie camera Genesis Digital Camera System from Panavision used.
  • In the English original, the commentary on Michael's life is spoken by James Earl Jones and his name is also mentioned in the film. In the German dubbing, Arnold Schwarzenegger is named in the scene instead , the German commentary voice does not come from Schwarzenegger himself, but from Thomas Danneberg , Schwarzenegger's voice actor.
  • Director Frank Coraci has a short guest role in the film: He plays the nurse in the hospital who wants to give Michael an injection.
  • The new World Trade Center complex with two One World Trade Centers can be seen in a scene of the future . The final construction plan from 2006, however, only provides for one tower.
  • In the film, Michael will drive a Cadillac Sixteen in the future of 2017 , actually a vehicle study from 2003. Michael's car in 2006 and the car of neighbor O'Doyle also come from the General Motors range . The latter is a Cadillac XLR .
  • The singer Dolores O'Riordan of the band The Cranberries has an appearance in the film at Ben's wedding. In the scene she plays herself as a singer and sings the title Linger , which - as is said in the film - became famous through The Cranberries .
  • Michael's mother is played by Julie Kavner , who is the original voice of Marge Simpson . When Michael rewinds to his first kiss, Donna's girlfriend Janine is wearing a Bart Simpson T-shirt.
  • Michael's daughter Samantha, aged 15, is played by Lorraine Nicholson , daughter of Jack Nicholson .
  • Michael's son, aged 17, is played by Jonah Hill .
  • The film cost approximately $ 70 million and $ 82.5 million to produce. It was released in the US on June 23, 2006. There it played until September 24, 2006 and brought in approximately 137.3 million US dollars. Worldwide it brought in a little more than in the USA alone, around 238 million US dollars.

Awards

  • The artist Kazuhiro Tsuji and Bill Corso were for the Oscars 2007 in the category Best makeup nominated.
  • The film was nominated for a Teen Choice Award in five categories in 2006 .
  • Adam Sandler won the Kids' Choice Award in 2007 . The film won the People's Choice Award for Best Comedy in 2007 and was nominated for a Golden Reel Award for sound editing .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for click . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2006 (PDF; test number: 107 216 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for click . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ click. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ Review by Mick LaSalle
  5. ^ Review by JR Jones
  6. ^ Review by James Berardinelli
  7. ^ Critic.de
  8. ↑ Click (2006) - Box Office Mojo. Retrieved August 1, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Box office / business for one click
  10. ↑ Click (2006) - Box Office Mojo. Retrieved August 1, 2019 .