Speaker 1: Hello everybody, and welcome to a brand new episode of
Speaker 1: Second Take Cinema, coming at you from the Glorious in
Speaker 1: Parlor Film's headquarters in sunny South End on Sea. I
Speaker 1: am your host, Jamie Evans, joined as per usual by
Speaker 1: monsieur Rory Joscelyn. Today we are giving a second take
Speaker 1: to a film from the library of one mister Adam Sandler.
Speaker 1: I know what you're thinking, Jamie. Why would you bother
Speaker 1: giving a second take to ninety percent of those movies?
Speaker 1: But here's one I think is a little bit more
Speaker 1: interesting than some of the rest, Even though you may
Speaker 1: not know it. It's one of the greatest bait and
Speaker 1: switchers in film history. Today we give a second take
Speaker 1: to two thousand and Sixer's Click Click is a two
Speaker 1: thousand and six American comedy movie directed by Frank Kurachi,
Speaker 1: written by Steve Coran and Mark O'Keefe. It stars Adam Sandler, Beckhamsale,
Speaker 1: Christopher Walken, Henry Winkler, David Hasselhoff, Julie Kavner, and Sean Astin.
Speaker 1: That's right, the guy from one of those Lord of
Speaker 1: the Ring films?
Speaker 2: Was he? Sam wise Ganji? I want to say is
Speaker 2: it Sam Wise.
Speaker 3: GANGI, Sam Wise GANGI, Yes, Ganji dam ge gam with
Speaker 3: an M yeah obviously, gamgee Gamgi.
Speaker 1: Click was made for a budget of eighty two point
Speaker 1: five million doll hairs, and it grossed two hundred and
Speaker 1: forty point seven million doll hairs at the box office.
Speaker 1: Rotten Tomatoes gives Click a score of thirty four percent,
Speaker 1: with the site's critical consensus reading, this latest Adam Sandler
Speaker 1: vehicle borrowed shamelessly from It's a Wonderful Life and back
Speaker 1: to the Future and fails to produce the necessary laughs
Speaker 1: that would forgive such limitation such imitation.
Speaker 2: Sorry, it's later and my eyes hurt.
Speaker 1: Peter Bradshaw opined that Click was an improvement over the
Speaker 1: previous Sun Mister Deeds. It has some moments of good
Speaker 1: natured sweetness, and Adam Sandler is improving as a comic performer,
Speaker 1: though he is still conceited and opaque. The film was
Speaker 1: criticized for its use of gross out humor and an
Speaker 1: unlikable protagonist. Entertainment Weekly critic Liz Schwarzbaum wrote that Click
Speaker 1: failed at being It's a Wonderful Life because Michael earns
Speaker 1: none of George Bailey's mature wisdom honestly. When it came
Speaker 1: to positive reviews, Newsweek claimed Click was predictable as a
Speaker 1: moral story, but unusually dark, occasionally touching, and pretty funny
Speaker 1: for a Sandler comedy. Empires Sam Toy enjoyed the film
Speaker 1: for its smart and genuinely moving ideas, Beckinsale's performance, and
Speaker 1: a strong third act, although dismissed the script for being
Speaker 1: overstuffed the first half of the film, for Sandler being
Speaker 1: too restrained in his everyman role, and actors such as Coolidge, Hasselhoff,
Speaker 1: and Walken for being put in small roles. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I thought had a role. Yeah, that's about as much
Speaker 1: Hasselhoff as I need.
Speaker 2: In a film.
Speaker 3: You know, he's not an actor who He's not someone
Speaker 3: you want leading a film unless it's epic cheese, and
Speaker 3: this has cheese to it, certainly in its first half,
Speaker 3: and that's pretty much the only point in which Hasselhoff appears.
Speaker 1: And I thought Walkin's part was perfectly fine. Yes, I
Speaker 1: could have done with a bit more Jennifer Coolidge. I
Speaker 1: like Jennifer Coolidge, but she is Stifler's mum from American
Speaker 1: part she played, was it Janine.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, she's.
Speaker 1: A funny actress. I could have done with her being
Speaker 1: in more, but maybe I was fine with what she had.
Speaker 4: I think she was perfect. She was in it a
Speaker 4: perfect amount.
Speaker 3: It's hard to say who would want more comedy acting wise,
Speaker 3: because I'm not a massive fan of Adam Sandler's comedy.
Speaker 3: The thing that really makes this thing for me is
Speaker 3: it second half, where it basically stops beating a comedy.
Speaker 1: Let's start here, because why not talk about Sandler's wider career.
Speaker 1: Whoever told that man he was funny? Because I swear
Speaker 1: to god, you look at his filmography and all of
Speaker 1: his best roles are dramas. So he acts it and
Speaker 1: he's he's and he's pretty good.
Speaker 4: He's a pretty gems and stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a pretty good dramatic actor. I watched him
Speaker 1: in The Myrowitz Stories, which is him, Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman,
Speaker 1: a couple of other people I can't remember who, but
Speaker 1: he's like the lead and he doesn't feel out of
Speaker 1: because I really thought he'd feel really out of place
Speaker 1: next to like Dustin Hoffman, but he doesn't. You believe
Speaker 1: him on the screen because he plays Dustin Hoffman's son.
Speaker 1: I had an ex who really liked Adam Senders.
Speaker 3: I watched quite a few of his films and the
Speaker 3: mostly not for me, but every now and then he'll
Speaker 3: say something that's funny, like there was Grown.
Speaker 4: Ups, the first Grown Ups film. There's two of them,
Speaker 4: which I didn't need.
Speaker 2: Is it the first one where he fights Stone called
Speaker 2: Steve Austin?
Speaker 4: He ever seen? The first one is the and it
Speaker 4: has Rob Schneider in it, and.
Speaker 2: That's every Adam sad.
Speaker 4: No, he's not in the second one.
Speaker 3: That's how you know the second one isn't worth watching
Speaker 3: because even Robson I went, yeah, but yeah, in the
Speaker 3: first one, they whenever they talked to Rob Schneider they
Speaker 3: bully him by saying may as the Light to show
Speaker 3: that he's somewhat slow, which really hasn't aged well either.
Speaker 3: But yeah, they just keep on doing that maze.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Last year I gave a second not as part of
Speaker 1: this show, just randomly struck by nostalgia. One day, I
Speaker 1: gave a second take to an Adam Sandler film that
Speaker 1: I think. I think a lot of his comedies are
Speaker 1: aimed at teens, which is probably why he's so success
Speaker 1: owners yeah, he's probably so successful atons because I rewatched
Speaker 1: a film that as a kid, like a thirteen year old,
Speaker 1: I loved. I rewatched it as an adult and I
Speaker 1: was like, this is awful, and that was little nikky.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: The entire film is Adam Sandler doing a gun face
Speaker 1: and speaking literally like this, get in the flask, Adrian,
Speaker 1: get in the.
Speaker 3: There is something about certain actors where in general, they
Speaker 3: can be very good act Adam Tanner again good example
Speaker 3: of it, can be a phenomenal actor given the right
Speaker 3: role in the right direction. But when they do comedy,
Speaker 3: he did the same in a Halloween movie he did
Speaker 3: for Netflix.
Speaker 2: Oh, Huby, Halloween, that's it.
Speaker 3: I've seen that and he does the same thing again.
Speaker 3: He does that weird gurning massage and you're like, it's
Speaker 3: not funny, and be stop it. He's just stop. I
Speaker 3: had a similar thing when I watched Ricky Gerves. I
Speaker 3: watched the first season of the show Derek. Now, there
Speaker 3: are some Ricky gives is a bit marmite to me.
Speaker 3: Some of the stuff I like, some of the stuff
Speaker 3: I really don't like. Derek was something I really didn't like.
Speaker 3: He's trying to play a mentally slow person. He doesn't
Speaker 3: play it very well or convincingly. And the reason he's
Speaker 3: doing it is he thinks he thinks it's funny, him
Speaker 3: doing a silly voice.
Speaker 2: And.
Speaker 3: You're like, dude, just stop, just stop. And I don't
Speaker 3: know what it is with comedic actors that they find
Speaker 3: something that obviously they find funny. I'm guessing they must
Speaker 3: find it amusing themselves. Maybe their friends find it funny,
Speaker 3: but they think the world in large will find it funny.
Speaker 3: You just sit there and go, dude, I keep that
Speaker 3: within your friends.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 1: I think there is an awful lot of comedy.
Speaker 2: Bad comedy out there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that gets there because a group of friends think
Speaker 1: it's funny amongst themselves and the translate. And it's why
Speaker 1: so many of these comedy actors always have their friends
Speaker 1: in their film. Adam Sandler does it. He's always got
Speaker 1: Rob Schneider, Kevin James, David Spade, Chris Rock and for
Speaker 1: I know they've fallen out now, but for a long time,
Speaker 1: James Franco and Seth Rogan did that, didn't they. Yes,
Speaker 1: they did, always in films together. Same with Danny McBride
Speaker 1: and Jonah Hill. Always in films together, and it's because
Speaker 1: they find their own shit funny. Have you ever seen
Speaker 1: Little Nicky?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: So let me explain Little Nikky very quickly. Harvey kai Tell,
Speaker 1: isn't it debate seeing himself? Harvey car Tell plays Satan. Oh,
Speaker 1: everyone in this film is debasing himself, including Adam Sandler,
Speaker 1: because he's better than that. Harvey carr Tell is Satan.
Speaker 1: His like chief assistant is Kevin Neelan. He has three sons,
Speaker 1: one played by Tiny Lista from The Dark Knight YEP.
Speaker 1: One played by Reese Evans or recy Fonds.
Speaker 2: I never knew how it was.
Speaker 1: I was perhaps it reci Fonds, the Welsh guy, but
Speaker 1: apparently if On's in Welsh is pronounced Evans.
Speaker 3: You know rece Fonds. Don't you guarantee you've seen his sonics?
Speaker 3: He's in everything?
Speaker 1: No, he sadly is in The Amazing Spider Man as
Speaker 1: the Lizard.
Speaker 2: What would you were seeing him as?
Speaker 1: Have you ever seen It's notting Hill he's in. He's
Speaker 1: Hugh Grant's roommate.
Speaker 3: I think, oh, what the skanky guy. He kind of
Speaker 3: looks a bit skaggy. Yeah, he's blonde hair. Yeah, it's him.
Speaker 2: And then Adam Sandler is his youngest son.
Speaker 4: I think that guy was in After Life with Ricky Gervas.
Speaker 2: Oh he might have been.
Speaker 4: He was the worst thing in it.
Speaker 3: Oh really, if it's the guy I'm thinking of, he
Speaker 3: he's the guy who plays the psychiatrist to help Ricky
Speaker 3: Gerves get over his grief. And that's like that character
Speaker 3: doesn't read like a psychiatrist. Doesn't funny, And it's clearly
Speaker 3: where it's the bit in there where Ricky Gervas has gone,
Speaker 3: this will be funny if I just say horrible shit
Speaker 3: and people will find it funny because, oh my god,
Speaker 3: I can't believe a psychiatrist said that. But he doesn't
Speaker 3: come across and feel like a psychiatrist. So the character
Speaker 3: doesn't feel genuine enough for that comedy to land in
Speaker 3: that angle. And the jokes aren't funny, it's just offensive
Speaker 3: ballot Yeah, but yeah.
Speaker 1: So it's tiny list of Rees Evans and Adam Sandler.
Speaker 1: They're all Satan's kid and they're all waiting to find
Speaker 1: out which of them will be the next King of Hell.
Speaker 1: Because Satan's been King of health like two thousand years.
Speaker 1: It's time for him to retire. And Harvey kai Tell
Speaker 1: brings them all into the room and he pulls a bait,
Speaker 1: and Switchery is like, I've decided that the next king
Speaker 1: of Hell will be me. I'm going to rain for
Speaker 1: another two thousand years. And Little Nicky is like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's cool. I love my dad. I'm fine with him
Speaker 1: being Satan. But the other two are like, no, we
Speaker 1: want to be king. So they plot to overthrow him, right,
Speaker 1: and then Little Nicky has to defeat his own brothers.
Speaker 1: It's here's the level of jokes in it. They turn
Speaker 1: Kevin Kneeling into a boob head right as he has
Speaker 1: actual prosthetic boobs on his head. They show a scene
Speaker 1: of Hitler in a French made outfit getting pineapples shoved.
Speaker 2: Up his ass.
Speaker 4: I mean, I mean to be fair, and at.
Speaker 2: The end of the film, if you don't mind me
Speaker 2: spoiling the end.
Speaker 4: I'm never gonna watch this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, you won't want to the talking dog in it.
Speaker 1: If I forgot to mention, you know you've gone too
Speaker 1: far in he gets through the Tiny Lister quite early
Speaker 1: in the film, and Recee Evans is like, the finale
Speaker 1: is like the fire Boss and he gets given this
Speaker 1: sphere at some point in the film I can't remember where,
Speaker 1: and he gets told it's a secret weapon that will
Speaker 1: be able to defeat Receevens. You know it's it's the
Speaker 1: Diosex machina. The thing is, it will only work. It
Speaker 1: only works because re Sevens does. What he does is
Speaker 1: fighting Little Nikki and he turns into a bat. That's
Speaker 1: a very satan thing to do. That's makes sense. So
Speaker 1: he turns into a big bat and Little Nicky's like,
Speaker 1: I can stop you, and he throws this sphere down
Speaker 1: and the sphere explodes in a puff of smoke to
Speaker 1: reveal mister Ossie Osbourne, who then grabs Reese Farns, who
Speaker 1: is still an animated bat, and bites his head off.
Speaker 1: You know, okay, right, Recie Farns, why don't you just
Speaker 1: change back?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: And b you've given Little Nikki that as a secret
Speaker 1: weapon earlier in the film. Did you know Recevens would
Speaker 1: just transmographying to a bat. That's that's other films.
Speaker 2: Now. I want to talk about my experience watching Click Yes,
Speaker 2: because I la, do you like to go first?
Speaker 4: No, I'll let you go first.
Speaker 3: I just want to say, yeah, like, there's not much
Speaker 3: in Adam Sender's own back und so he's got his
Speaker 3: own company, Happy Madison. You can usually tell if the
Speaker 3: film he's in is going to be good or art
Speaker 3: based on whether or not Happy Madison produced it. If
Speaker 3: Happy Madison produced it, it's going to be dire for
Speaker 3: the most part, with a few exceptions. Click for me
Speaker 3: would be one of them because they are often just
Speaker 3: brainless garbage. But that's his own production company that he
Speaker 3: uses to make movies with his friends. If he's in
Speaker 3: something like Uncut Gems, it's not him, it's someone else
Speaker 3: making it. He's just acting in it.
Speaker 2: I really need to see on.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've heard lots of really positive things.
Speaker 2: About I've had it. I've got a copy of it.
Speaker 1: I've had it for years, right, and it's just one
Speaker 1: of those things where I never It's the same with
Speaker 1: black Swan. I've had black Swan since it came out
Speaker 1: over a decade ago.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I just keep to watch it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I don't think I'll hit you as well as the
Speaker 3: Wrestler did. But black Swan is a really interesting film.
Speaker 3: I rate that director anyway. It's really good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, a fantastic But anyway, so Click, I'm gonna be real.
Speaker 2: Honest.
Speaker 1: The reason I watch Click is because Kate Becking Sales
Speaker 1: Isn't It? And I was on a real Kate beckinsale
Speaker 1: face when I was a teen, promoted by Van Helsing
Speaker 1: and Underworld. Anyway, so I watched Click as Kate Beckett
Speaker 1: Sale wasn't it and I was like, Oh, it's an
Speaker 1: Adam Sandler film. I'd seen a couple of Adam Sandler
Speaker 1: films by that point, so I was like, I know
Speaker 1: what I'm getting. It's gonna mostly be stupid, but she
Speaker 1: might be good in it. And the first half of
Speaker 1: the film is exactly what you think the film is
Speaker 1: going to be based on the trailers. It's Adam Sandler
Speaker 1: playing his typical Adam Sandler character.
Speaker 3: He's kind of a schlubby guy trying to get through
Speaker 3: a schlubby well a decent job in this one, but
Speaker 3: still he's kind of slubbing his way through. It's meant
Speaker 3: to be like, oh, I want to be the next
Speaker 3: Big Boss, but like he comes into the first meeting
Speaker 3: with the Saudi Arabian guys and just basically insults them
Speaker 3: straight away.
Speaker 1: Anyway, So I downloaded the film and for the first no,
Speaker 1: I didn't download it. I bought it on DV bloody.
Speaker 4: D back when I used to spend money on films.
Speaker 1: Yes, and yeah, the first half is exactly what you
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be. Schlubby Adam Sandler gets a universal
Speaker 1: remote that lets him control his universe, and there's all
Speaker 1: the gimmicks you think there's gonna be. He puts the
Speaker 1: commentary on. He fast forwards.
Speaker 3: Things I have to call bullshit on the commentary, by
Speaker 3: the way, And yeah, comment works because the commentary is
Speaker 3: you've got the director or the actors sitting there going
Speaker 3: so in this scene we did this and or this
Speaker 3: funny anecdote, or this is how we built this scene,
Speaker 3: or how you know this was the idea behind this.
Speaker 4: The commentary of this one is just so in his house,
Speaker 4: and you're like, that's not comment.
Speaker 1: Been coordinarration, yes, not commentary, but oh well yeah all
Speaker 1: no description.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, yeah. He changes his boss to Spanish.
Speaker 1: At one point he slow motions are jogger done he
Speaker 1: so he can ogler. Yeah, it's all the stuff you
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be. After Hasselhoff doesn't promote him, so
Speaker 1: he pauses him and then farts in his face.
Speaker 4: That was the worst bit of the film. Yeah, that
Speaker 4: scene is the worst bit of the film.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're out of nowhere. In the middle of the film,
Speaker 1: this film suddenly decides, Hey, it's almost like the guy
Speaker 1: writing it was like, you know, this film is just
Speaker 1: not funny.
Speaker 3: Well on how it was before the end of the
Speaker 3: first half. What's the end point of that story?
Speaker 2: Exactly?
Speaker 4: It's just like, guy, how does he learn not to work?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 4: How how does he without the r I tell you.
Speaker 1: There is another way you could have done that if
Speaker 1: you wanted to keep it as the shitty comedy. And
Speaker 1: the other way is that bratty kid gets the remote, well,
Speaker 1: the next door neighbor the camera or Hasselhoff, one of
Speaker 1: the villains gets the remote using it just jesus what passes.
Speaker 2: For a villain in these films, and uses it to
Speaker 2: fuck Sandler over.
Speaker 1: That would there is a very real world where that
Speaker 1: could have been what this film was. Instead, what this
Speaker 1: film does is it pulls a blinder of a twist,
Speaker 1: possibly the biggest genre shift I've ever seen.
Speaker 4: It stops being a comedy entirely.
Speaker 1: Yeah, outside of like Sunshine, which goes from being a
Speaker 1: sci fi movie to a slasher movie halfway through that
Speaker 1: didn't like that.
Speaker 4: That didn't really work that way round unfortunately.
Speaker 2: Oh I quite like it.
Speaker 3: I like some I like Sunshine in general, but the
Speaker 3: ending felt a little bit weak, right, I didn't really
Speaker 3: get the villain, right, But yeah, I see your point.
Speaker 3: That was at least a genre flip as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but this just it suddenly becomes this like incredibly
Speaker 1: serious movie about a man basically wasting his life on
Speaker 1: auto pilot.
Speaker 3: Trying to He's focusing on work, isn't he, Because basically,
Speaker 3: when he's on a pilot, the whole thing is about
Speaker 3: getting the promotion and being the scene, and so everything
Speaker 3: in his personal life gets left behind.
Speaker 1: And the reason this film was always stuck with me
Speaker 1: is there's a bit in that third act once he
Speaker 1: ends up going to the future, doesn't he basically fast forward?
Speaker 3: The irony being that the future where he's got like
Speaker 3: all this sci fi gadgetary.
Speaker 2: Was five years ago.
Speaker 3: It's twenty twenty one, so it's four years ago yeah
Speaker 3: for us, And I'm just like, why is it even
Speaker 3: in Click? The twenty twenty one in Click was better
Speaker 3: than the twenty twenty five of today.
Speaker 1: The reason this was always stuck with me. The film
Speaker 1: gets super serious and there's a bit where I cried,
Speaker 1: I like cried cried. I'm talking like ugly cry, like
Speaker 1: snot tears, red in the face. The film finished, and
Speaker 1: it made me contemplate my entire fucking existence.
Speaker 3: Yes, because it never goes back to the Sandler comedy either.
Speaker 3: Because it could do that for a little bit and
Speaker 3: then return and be like, hey, back to the fart
Speaker 3: some funny jokes.
Speaker 4: It never does, and that's right.
Speaker 3: It's the right choice to keep it in once you've
Speaker 3: switched the series, just stay there.
Speaker 4: But it is surprising because you literally sit there and go,
Speaker 4: this is a different film.
Speaker 3: And the thing is, up to this point, you've got
Speaker 3: Christopher Walken's character, who in the first half feels like
Speaker 3: he's just been hired to play Christopher Walken as Christopher
Speaker 3: Walken in Christopher walk In the movie, and you're like, Okay,
Speaker 3: you've just hired christopherkin because you could afford him. In
Speaker 3: the second half, when he basically he becomes the Angel
Speaker 3: of Death as he calls himself, it changes like, holy shit,
Speaker 3: it's Christopher Walken doing this part, and it being Christopher
Speaker 3: walker somehow works. Whereas it didn't do for me in
Speaker 3: the first half, but it kind of pays off in
Speaker 3: the second half.
Speaker 4: Very weird. I've never really had an experience like it
Speaker 4: watching a movie.
Speaker 2: No, and it stuck with me all these years.
Speaker 1: I won't talk yet about the bit that made me cry,
Speaker 1: But do you remember your first experience watching Click?
Speaker 3: Yes, I watched it. I didn't see it in cinemas.
Speaker 3: I watched it on DVD at some point. I can't
Speaker 3: remember exactly when it was a while ago. I think
Speaker 3: it was when I had first moved out of my
Speaker 3: family home, so it would have been about twenty ten,
Speaker 3: twenty eleven. And I expected, like yourself, just a shitty,
Speaker 3: schlubby comedy. Got that for half of it. Really loved
Speaker 3: the Terry CRUs bit that always stuck with me, where
Speaker 3: he's singing in the car next to him and then
Speaker 3: he just mutes him while he's singing the song.
Speaker 4: That was really cool.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I was just kind of watching it that way.
Speaker 3: And then I just remember at a certain point, I
Speaker 3: remember it changed, but i'd never remembered what the change was,
Speaker 3: and I away was just remembered loving the film but
Speaker 3: not remembering why. And I don't know yeah, it just
Speaker 3: it left my brain, and so I watched it again
Speaker 3: for the second time only for this and it was
Speaker 3: It was kind of cool because I was able to
Speaker 3: basically watch it for the first time for the second
Speaker 3: time and yet again did not still didn't expect it,
Speaker 3: didn't expect where it would go to. The second half
Speaker 3: is better than the first. Now, something that this film
Speaker 3: does do. Looking at IMDb, it's giving itself the moniker
Speaker 3: of high concept comedy, which is a bit like horror
Speaker 3: when they.
Speaker 4: Do elevated comedy. We're not doing.
Speaker 3: But this is a bit higher concept, I guess in
Speaker 3: the terms of most comedy doesn't try and then do
Speaker 3: an emotional storyline set in a The destruction of your
Speaker 3: life using sci fi technology isn't a common thread for
Speaker 3: comedy movies. Honestly, I just can't think of anything else
Speaker 3: that's like it that does the bait and switch.
Speaker 2: Because I remember the trailers had none of this state. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the trailers were all.
Speaker 1: The funny, you know, the funny fucking around with the remote,
Speaker 1: pausing people and fast forward.
Speaker 3: Selling it to Adam Sandler fans, I think that was
Speaker 3: a weird thing because I don't know how you would
Speaker 3: sell this generally because the way they sold it was
Speaker 3: to sell it to Adam Sandler fans. But I can't
Speaker 3: imagine anyone who likes general Adam Sandler comedy would like
Speaker 3: the second half because it's too deep.
Speaker 2: You'll get people who are surprised.
Speaker 3: You'll get some people who You'll get people who don't
Speaker 3: like it, yeah, because all.
Speaker 1: They want is the Adam Sandler stuff. But you'll get
Speaker 1: people who like Adam Sandler who were pleasantly surprised.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, no, I get that, But I like in
Speaker 3: terms of marketing it, they went for that audience. But
Speaker 3: I think a lot of that audience wouldn't like the
Speaker 3: people I used to know who like Adam Sandler films.
Speaker 3: They like this sort of film, but I don't think
Speaker 3: they would have liked the switch. I think they would
Speaker 3: have watched an Adam Sandler film to get exactly what
Speaker 3: they get out of and Adam Sandler film, and then
Speaker 3: been disappointed that they were taken somewhere they did not expect. Simultaneously,
Speaker 3: anyone who would really enjoy the emotional second half would
Speaker 3: like yeah, would sit there and go, I'm not gonna
Speaker 3: watch it because it's an Adam Sandler film. So they
Speaker 3: would just go, well, I didn't like anything happy medicine's
Speaker 3: done to bollocks to this, in which case they miss
Speaker 3: out on that incredible twist. It's hard to know who
Speaker 3: this is really for, despite the fact that it does work.
Speaker 1: Which might be why you don't hear about it much anymore.
Speaker 1: It hasn't like survived the test of time.
Speaker 2: Really, yeah, it.
Speaker 3: Has dated as well, let's be honest, because the way
Speaker 3: the remote looks looks very late nineties early two thousands,
Speaker 3: like it's got that slightly sparkly plastic around it, and
Speaker 3: the shape of it feels very it feels like something
Speaker 3: you'd use on a Sega Dreamcast.
Speaker 4: It's got that sort of style to it.
Speaker 3: And also when he uses the menu button to go
Speaker 3: into the main menu, it looks like those early DVD menus,
Speaker 3: which at the time would have been amazing, like wow,
Speaker 3: it's like they're literally walking around and doing a scene
Speaker 3: within a DVD menu. Unfortunately, nowadays, a there's not a
Speaker 3: lot of physical media anymore, and the physical media there
Speaker 3: is is bare bones of shit, so the menus are
Speaker 3: really bland. You don't get that's like CGI think's moving
Speaker 3: around and really trying to impress you. It's mostly just
Speaker 3: like a video in the background with some music going on,
Speaker 3: and then the text at the bottom of play movie
Speaker 3: select language extras and you're like, oh, what happened to
Speaker 3: these menus? It has dated even the future of it
Speaker 3: where it's like seeing the future. It's it's what sci
Speaker 3: fi's of the early two thousands look like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely, I think the Switch works as well because
Speaker 1: the first the first sign of the Switch is when
Speaker 1: he wakes up and he's fat, and you think.
Speaker 2: Oh God, here we go.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be that tasteless, big Mama's house style thin
Speaker 1: guy in a fat suit comedy. And then you realize
Speaker 1: his wife's broken up with him and she's married Sean
Speaker 1: Aston instead, and you kind of get this moment, You
Speaker 1: kind of get this thing where you're starting to think,
Speaker 1: hang on, this is getting a little bit more serious.
Speaker 2: They're still trying to be funny.
Speaker 3: But it's a bit And then he gets cancer yes,
Speaker 3: and you're like, oh shit, yeah. Now, Usually there is
Speaker 3: a bit of a thing in film, certainly bad film
Speaker 3: where sudden cancer is brought in, and a particular film there, buddy.
Speaker 3: There are quite a few films that do it. Things
Speaker 3: like the room do it. So I was a bit
Speaker 3: worried it was going to throw that and just.
Speaker 4: Be like, hey, you got the cancer. Oh good buddy,
Speaker 4: You're like what.
Speaker 3: But thankfully it does pay that off because that becomes
Speaker 3: then a recurring part to his decay as an individual.
Speaker 1: It shows you how impactful that stuff near the end
Speaker 1: is because I remember that being a much bigger portion
Speaker 1: of the movie, like I remembered it being literally half
Speaker 1: but it really it's only.
Speaker 2: The third act.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's only a bit of the third act. Yeah,
Speaker 3: because he it's his heart, isn't it that gives out eventually?
Speaker 1: I would say the third act starts when he wakes
Speaker 1: up and he's had the cancer. Right, it's like, you
Speaker 1: haven't been well a day a day in the.
Speaker 3: Last ten years, and yeah, because he's gips ten years,
Speaker 3: doesn't he? And she's looking older.
Speaker 1: Henry Winkler is the unsung MVP of this movie. He
Speaker 1: is believable as a granddad and just likable enough as
Speaker 1: a granddad that when you get what I feel is
Speaker 1: the pivotal scene, which is when he realizes his dad's
Speaker 1: died and he tries to go back and witness the
Speaker 1: last time he saw his dad.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I like about that scene is he says, take me
Speaker 3: to the funeral, goes we can't you were never there? Yeah,
Speaker 3: that hits and you're like, oh you bitch, Yeah, why
Speaker 3: didn't you go?
Speaker 2: Well, I don't think he says the funeral.
Speaker 3: Do think he says take me to when he does
Speaker 3: the day he does like when he dies.
Speaker 4: No, No, he says take me to the funeral.
Speaker 2: Oh he said.
Speaker 4: I think he says, take me to.
Speaker 3: The funeral, goes you weren't there, right, and then he goes,
Speaker 3: take me to the last time I saw my father.
Speaker 3: And then it's that the scene that you were about
Speaker 3: to talk about in the office.
Speaker 1: Yeah, where Henry Winkler's trying to interact with him and
Speaker 1: he's just ignoring him and he ends up basically breaking
Speaker 1: his There's this running joke, isn't there, that he's got
Speaker 1: this coin trick and he doesn't think Adam Sandler knows
Speaker 1: how he does it. But Adam Sandler does know how
Speaker 1: he does it. But Adam Sandler's always yeah, he's always
Speaker 1: kept the mystery alive.
Speaker 2: But then he just snaps at me.
Speaker 1: He's like, I've always known how you do the trick
Speaker 1: now piss off or something like that, and Henry Winkler
Speaker 1: does a phenomenal bit of acting where he kind of
Speaker 1: keeps a straight face and goes okay, And it's only
Speaker 1: when he's turned away from Adam Sandler that he starts
Speaker 1: to crumple. But we see it because obviously our Adam Sandler,
Speaker 1: the one who's traveled through time, is on our We're
Speaker 1: watching from his side and we see the face crumple.
Speaker 1: That scene breaks my heart every time.
Speaker 3: Because it's an undoable bit of damage and he can
Speaker 3: never he can never repair it.
Speaker 4: That's fantastic.
Speaker 3: I actually really yeah, I really rate the second half
Speaker 3: of this film. Some of the reviews you read were
Speaker 3: comparing it to It's a Wonderful Life.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: I've not actually watched that film yet, dirty me to
Speaker 3: say so, but I've never actually seen it. But I
Speaker 3: understand what they mean because at the end he comes
Speaker 3: back and he's like a renewed man in the present day.
Speaker 3: I understand what they mean by it doesn't kind of
Speaker 3: feel as earned in terms of him being that super positive.
Speaker 3: But I kind of disagree that it's not at all
Speaker 3: earned because he's from having watched his life that way.
Speaker 3: I find it perfectly believable that he would change his
Speaker 3: ways because he really like The whole point is, by
Speaker 3: the end of the future segment, he dies realizing that
Speaker 3: work isn't as important as family. So I feel it
Speaker 3: it's a little disingenuous for the reviewers there to say
Speaker 3: that he doesn't earn it or it doesn't feel earned.
Speaker 3: Maybe the way he runs through the house basically showing.
Speaker 4: Hey, their movie house, it is.
Speaker 3: Not quite like that, but you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: It's like, that's not it's the run through the house
Speaker 3: that doesn't really worry.
Speaker 1: The ending is very reminiscent of when Scrooge wakes up
Speaker 1: as a chain changed man at the end of Christmas
Speaker 1: Carol and he's already done when in the version of
Speaker 1: Scrooge we watched where he runs down the street singing
Speaker 1: far the Christmas and given toys to.
Speaker 2: Every wadded stuff.
Speaker 3: And I don't think that's earned because of the style
Speaker 3: of the film in both of its hearts, isn't that
Speaker 3: sort of revelatory thing.
Speaker 4: It should have been a bit more calm, I think.
Speaker 3: But I can understand why they went for it, because
Speaker 3: they were trying to get back to a feel good ending,
Speaker 3: especially considering how dark this goes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's kind of sad as well, how we react
Speaker 1: when he finds out the dogs died, and that kind
Speaker 1: of gets him done it.
Speaker 3: Well, because he skips forward only a few months at first,
Speaker 3: isn't he and the dogs died in that time, and
Speaker 3: it's just it hits you how quickly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, certainly with animals because obviously they lost Spencer are
Speaker 4: much much shorter.
Speaker 1: So in terms of the acting in this, and I
Speaker 1: think everyone does a fine enough job.
Speaker 4: Yes, is actually very good.
Speaker 1: Sean Aston's good, cape, Beckham sales good. The American accent
Speaker 1: slips a couple of times. Yeah, even Hasselhoff.
Speaker 2: I was surprised by.
Speaker 3: The only pick but I didn't like was the one
Speaker 3: he got fighted on because don't taste shit, because that's
Speaker 3: not even well apt.
Speaker 4: But the rest of it is fine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, because the Hof the Hoff has become such
Speaker 3: a parody of himself in the current day and age
Speaker 3: he was by then, because this was bear in mind,
Speaker 3: this was around the same time he was in Dodgeball even.
Speaker 1: I mean, like now he's really a pact like he's
Speaker 1: been in like SpongeBob the.
Speaker 2: Movie and stuff.
Speaker 3: Like that, and they created a fake version of him
Speaker 3: life size. Did you know that in the SpongeBob movie,
Speaker 3: the bit where they surf on the back of him
Speaker 3: isn't him. It's an animatronic of him, right, because they
Speaker 3: in order for the animation to work, they needed to
Speaker 3: keep that thing in position for like eight straight hours,
Speaker 3: and they thought that that was a bit harsh to
Speaker 3: do to a person.
Speaker 4: Let's be honest. David hasse Off probably would have be like,
Speaker 4: fuck off that.
Speaker 2: Joe whatever had t shirts that said things like don't
Speaker 2: hassle the half.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I have one little bit of trivia there
Speaker 3: that I think might be kind of interesting. R. L. Stein,
Speaker 3: the writer of Goosebump. He wrote a very similar story,
Speaker 3: apparently in his Tales to Give You Goosebump series, with
Speaker 3: almost the exact same plot and set up, even down
Speaker 3: to the title Click Galastic Incorporated almost sued Adam Sander
Speaker 3: and this film's producers for plagiarism. Both parties agreed the
Speaker 3: entire situation was a coincidence, and no legal action was
Speaker 3: ever taken. Both stories could easily be based on the
Speaker 3: old French tale The Magic Thread, in which a boy
Speaker 3: is able to pull a thread to speed up parts
Speaker 3: of his life.
Speaker 4: He doesn't like.
Speaker 3: Oh, he quickly finds himself an old man before being
Speaker 3: given a second chance. I got that from IMDb. That
Speaker 3: is not my own facts, but yeah, I thought that
Speaker 3: was an interesting bit of trivia because I had not
Speaker 3: heard of the French tale the magic thread. It makes
Speaker 3: more sense in a modern sense, in a modern way,
Speaker 3: to have it be something.
Speaker 4: Like a remote.
Speaker 3: But thinking about it, nowadays, even remotes are kind of
Speaker 3: old fashioned. I know TVs still kind of have them,
Speaker 3: but most things are now smart based, so that the
Speaker 3: idea of pausing fast forward rewind all that stuff mostly
Speaker 3: dealt with with either a mouse or voice.
Speaker 4: Come on, yeah, yeah, what.
Speaker 2: Was with the dog humping everything? Man?
Speaker 4: See?
Speaker 3: I understood that as a sound the rest joke, and
Speaker 3: it kind of actually works into the emotional segments a
Speaker 3: little bit, because when the dog is no longer humping
Speaker 3: the thing, that's kind of emotionally like, Oh that was
Speaker 3: because it's the oat.
Speaker 4: Let's be fair.
Speaker 3: The reason it only worked in that sense is because
Speaker 3: it was the only thing we knew the dog did.
Speaker 3: But then it did this thing where every dog focks this.
Speaker 1: Male or dog he buys a female dog to keep Sundance.
Speaker 1: By the way, do you think that was a reference
Speaker 1: that they called it Sundance was to the fact that
Speaker 1: maybe the fact that Adam Salmon never gets SIMS into
Speaker 1: the Sundance Film Festival.
Speaker 4: Oh, maybe I have an idea.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm just ridden way too much into that. Are
Speaker 1: there any parts of the film we haven't touched on
Speaker 1: yet that you'd like to touch on. I just feel
Speaker 1: about Bed, Bath and Beyond. I could have without the
Speaker 1: guy who wants him to just be his friend.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was weird.
Speaker 1: And that's only the one who was in all of
Speaker 1: the Adam Sandler films, and I think it's Nick Swanson
Speaker 1: his name is, I think, But I didn't go anywhere.
Speaker 1: That's the weird thing, other than he wakes up at
Speaker 1: the end and because I will be your friend.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but like he doesn't come back after that scene,
Speaker 3: so you just want him.
Speaker 4: To No, But I just didn't understand the characters being there.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it's it's quite The Bed and Beyond joke
Speaker 3: doesn't work outside of America because we don't have bed
Speaker 3: Bathom Beyond, which is an actual brand in America.
Speaker 4: But it's just the UK.
Speaker 2: We're like what.
Speaker 4: Like the shop Front.
Speaker 1: It's a surprisingly effective film when it wants to be. Though, Yes,
Speaker 1: when he's dying in the rain as well, I thought
Speaker 1: that was a bit sad.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that actually it's melodramatic, but it actually works
Speaker 3: for the scene.
Speaker 4: It's built myself up to that.
Speaker 1: The second part where I burst into tears is when
Speaker 1: he gives Kate beck and say all the note that
Speaker 1: he gave her on the first date. Literally, I've just
Speaker 1: finished I just finished crying from the dad scene, and
Speaker 1: then he does, and I was like that that, I
Speaker 1: mean this, like you would take this to the bank
Speaker 1: about me being a terrible filmmaker. That is more upsetting
Speaker 1: than the Titanic. I cry more at that than I
Speaker 1: do it Titanic.
Speaker 4: You mean the movie Titanic? Ye yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, to be fair, I wasn't particularly a fan of
Speaker 3: the movie Titanic. It focuses on all the wrong things
Speaker 3: and it doesn't It doesn't feel like a loss or
Speaker 3: a tragedy in the way that it should have done
Speaker 3: outside of the fact that you know it happened.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but ever let go.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, if Titanic was the exact same film, but
Speaker 3: there hadn't been an actual incident of the Titanic. It
Speaker 3: was just so you knew it was all fiction. No
Speaker 3: one would have watched it and no one would have
Speaker 3: liked it.
Speaker 1: As we said in our episode, the song just so
Speaker 1: much heavy lifting in that film.
Speaker 2: Yes, good old Celine Dion. So yeah, I thought the
Speaker 2: film still hit pretty well. Don't get me wrong. It
Speaker 2: didn't hit me as much as it did the first time.
Speaker 2: But will I will not lie?
Speaker 1: I still teered up during the dad scene, and I
Speaker 1: still teered up when he handed of the note that
Speaker 1: said will you still love me in the morning.
Speaker 3: Yeah, those are both very emotional moments. So as far
Speaker 3: as I'm concerned, Yeah, yeah, it's dated and it won't
Speaker 3: be for everyone. Because essentially, you have to be willing
Speaker 3: to either sit through a comedy you won't like to
Speaker 3: get to a really cool sci fi bit, or you
Speaker 3: may sit through a comedy you do like to get
Speaker 3: to a sci fi bit you don't really want.
Speaker 4: So you really have to be in a mood.
Speaker 3: I think, oh, yeah, yeah, like I said, I like
Speaker 3: this film, Yeah, but I've barely ever watched it.
Speaker 2: In all the years I've owned it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I have to be in the mood to
Speaker 1: cry my fucking eyes out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but when you want that, when you and certainly
Speaker 3: the bait and switch of it, it hits, it still works.
Speaker 3: It's hits twice for me, it's hit more than twice
Speaker 3: for you, it still works.
Speaker 2: Well.
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