Click

A married workaholic, Michael Newman doesn't have time for his wife and children, not if he's to impress his ungrateful boss and earn a well-deserved promotion. So when he meets Morty, a loopy sales clerk, he gets the answer to his prayers: a magical remote that allows him to bypass life's little distractions with increasingly hysterical results.

Critics were largely unmoved by Click, faulting its crude humor and a protagonist too selfish to root for — but sympathetic reviewers saw something genuinely affecting underneath the broad comedy, particularly in its darker third act. The core dispute is whether the film earns its sentimental turn or simply steals it from better movies without doing the emotional work.