My dad came to town and we did our old thing, which is see as many movies as we possibly could, too bad there were a lot of stinkers in the mix. Now I have to admit that Adam Sandler can be funny, but really he is not my thing, and while this film made me laugh a few time, overall the film wasn’t too good. Kate Beckinsale could have been any beautiful woman, and there are major plot holes, like the life remote not being able to go in reverse. This is Sandler’s It’s a Wonderful Life, but certainly not as good. If you are a huge Sandler fan you might want to see it on video, but for non fans don’t bother.

REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS…

Adam Sandler is Michael Newman a talented architect married to a gorgeous wife Donna (Kate Bechinsale) with 2 kids Ben (Joseph Castanon) and Samantha (Tatum McCann) and a horrible boss Ammer (David Haddelhoff) who works him like a dog, family or holiday or anytime. Michael loves his parents Ted (Henry Winkler) and Trudy (Julie Kavner), but he wants to have a better life for his children, so he works so hard, but doesn’t see his kids enough. And his son is copying him, eating crappy food and getting fat. Finally Michael freaks out and heads to Bed Bath and Beyond to get a universal remote, he tests out a bed and sees the Beyond door and enters and finds the strange Morty (Christopher Walken) who gives him a remote with certain extra features.

Once Michael gets home he realizes that the remote controls his life, muting things, and allowing him to fast forward and skip borring events in his life, and putting him into a sort of auto pilot. The remote does not rewind though, just lets him go back and witness earlier parts in his life, the thing is that the remote learns, so after skipping sex once, he always skips it, always skips being sick, and eventually starts skipping years of his life, and pushing his family away. He skips until he becomes a partner, but by then he has lost his wife, and his family, and is super fat, then he has an accident and he skips more years, and eventually even misses his father’s death, and his son Ben (now Jake Hoffman) is becoming like him and putting work over family, but as he dies Michael gets Ben to realize family should come first.

And Michael wakes up in Bed Bath and Beyond, but when he gets home he finds the remote again, and throws it out, realizing he needs to appreciate what he has because it is special.

Pretty lame, not something I would recommend at all. Not a good film, and could have easily been done so much better.