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Good points

Moved heart and real intersting main item

Bad points

Drags at times, mainly towards the end

General Comments

Basic plot: Michel Newman is very busy architect. He has lovely wife and two children. He is very nice guy but also he is easily angry person.

Everyting is from his busy work. So many times he wants to get out of his work. But it's quite hard because he has a family so he have to earn much money. He always get irritated from everything.

Oneday, he goes to market and he find special remote controller. It could control his lifetime. When he get it, he is so happy. But finally, because of it, he lose everything includes family and real love.

But it was just a nightmare so he realise his family is the best thing for him. So he can live more lively and thank everything.

This has to be one of the best drama films that I have seen recently. I've never cried so hard during one film.

Clivk was very enjoyable but not the best film ive seen, I felt it dragged on a bit (could be shorter) but was funny at times.

The cast help this rather silly affair trundle along at a good pace, though stereotyping in terms of characterization (even allowing for it being a comedy) is shameless! But let's start with the good stuff -

Sandler is an over-worked family man trying to spin the plates to cope with work/life balance, and failing to satisfy anyone. Beckinsale is just a little too understanding, not to say beautiful, to be his wife, but she carries this role well. Wrinkler is a great parent and has a blast being stereotype slightly mad Jewish father. Actually Hasselhoff is perfectly cast as a thoroughly unpleasant and vacuous boss at work - taking to the role like a natural... But the star is Walken, whose role is a wonderful homage to Back-to-the-Future, as he plays the role 'Morty' fantastically. I think a film just with that character being the focal point might have greater mileage... either way the casting director gets a gold star for giving him the role.

The basic plot is interesting and how the concepts are brought to life are on the whole amusing, if somewhat staged. Most of it is clearly a vehicle for a bit of Sandler slapstick or plastic-faced sit-com ... quite a lot of Ealing comedy, just without the sublety.

The James Earl Jones voiceover could be the high point of the film - that sketch alone makes it worth a watch.

But there are drawbacks:

- the plot is too sugar-coated and the moral message too blunt for this to be tolerable for many audiences.

- the stereotyping is too much: the Jews are too jewish, the boy next door is ginger and unpleasant, the boss is too unscrupulous, the wife too understanding (and too delicious), this is bourgeois stereotyping just overcooked. with too much sugar.

- frankly, how many times do we have to see a dog with a toy duck for it to stop being funny? I think the film-makers view is a little optimistic.

But having said that, you end up saying "nice film" and I fancy more people will like it than not. Of course, those same people might not like "Its a Wonderful Life" that much, even though it is the same story re-spun, and I know that personally I prefer the atmosphere of the original; however this is mass-market lowest-common-demoninator Hollywood machinery output, so I'm afraid the outcome is as expected.

This film was great, started off a bit slow, but once it got going was extremely funny. The Hoff was very good in it and so was Christopher Walken as the freaky shop guy. Oh and most men will drool over Kate Beckinsale who plays Donna in the film. The movie has a very good moral story behind it, which makes you want to call everyone who you've not spoken to in a while afterwards.

Great comedy, Adam Sandler is extremely funny, and I think the whole family would enjoy this film!!