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You know what's sad? That a movie like Click gets voted "Best Movie Comedy" for the People's Choice Awards. At first, I was appalled. Click was a watchable movie, but definitely not good enough to win any awards. Its downfall was very similar to The Break Up disaster (which was also nominated . . . I lose faith in the American people for that one). It couldn't decide what genre it was.

Adam Sandler is much like Cary Grant was during the studio era of film where actors like Grant would already stir pre-conceived notions about the film's plot. Back then, filmmakers didn't have much faith in the audience's ability to interpret moving pictures. We see this with action film actors such as Segal, Schwarzenegger, Van Damme. Adam Sandler sadly comes with a type cast. It doesn't help that movie trailers often betray the true kind of film you're consuming.

So you start out watching a movie that you believe is a comedy. You watch Michael Newman (Adam Sandler) receive a remote control that can be used against the fourth dimension, time. It can replay things in the past, fast forward into the future, alter the color of his face . . . which isn't really the fourth dimension but I digress. Michael then abuses this power, and then all of a sudden it becomes a serious movie and at the climax, there is this awful scene of Michael in a parking lot in the pouring rain about to die. Its not awful because of the circumstance . . . it’s awful because it's so bad it’s not even cheesy.

But what's even sadder is not that the people's choice was Click, but that there weren't any other better comedy films to defeat it. It’s not the people's fault. We just need better movies.