UK release: 29th September 2006
Adam Sandler reteams with director Frank Coraci (The Waterboy, The Wedding Singer) in this high-concept comedy that’s undermined by a queasy sentimentality. Sandler plays a workaholic architect who acquires what he thinks will be the solution to all his problems — a universal remote control that allows him to literally fast-forward his way through things that peeve him. But he soon realises that skipping life’s little obstacles means he misses out on a lot more, too.
This is Sandler at his least likeable, and the starry supporting cast struggle to make much headway: David Hasselhoff has fun as his nasty boss but Christopher Walken is on wacky autopilot as a mysterious boffin, while Kate Beckinsale is wasted as Sandler’s long-suffering wife.
**
UK cinema certificate 12A
Running time 107mins
Review by John Ferguson
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