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List Price: $14.94 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 57800
Released: May 20, 2008 |
| Our Price: $5.74 |
| Used Price: $1.49 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
A harried workaholic, Michael Newman (Adam Sandler) doesn't have time for his wife (Kate Beckinsale) and children, not if he's to impress his ungrateful boss and earn a well-deserved promotion. So when he meets Morty (Christopher Walken), 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. But as Michael gleefully mutes, skips and scans past his family and his friends, the remote gradually takes over his life and begins to program him, in this fast, funny and out-of-control comedy adventure.
Click Reviews:
Funny, but NOT appropriate for children! 
2009-11-17 - I rented this DVD based on the silly commercials I had seen about a guy who could fast-forward or mute through the parts of his life he didn't want to mess with. Looked like a fun family night movie. BOY, was I WRONG about the family part! We sat down with our 10-year-old and found ourselves watching a movie full of hilarious ADULT situations. From the busty nymphomaniac friend whose three divorces resulted from her cheating on her husbands with their brothers, to the series of family dogs shown "humping" a stuffed duck, to "fast-forwarded" sex scenes, a light-hearted romp through the main character's actual conception and birth and ensuing comments about the size of his male parts....LOTS of things I really didn't want to have to explain to my grade-schooler. Had it just been my husband and I, we would have watched it to the end. With our child in attendance, however, we turned it off at about the halfway point and popped in a Disney flick. The movie is rated PG-13, but I think should definitely have been rated R. It could have been done without all of the adult situations and been a great family movie about priorities and accountability. The producers, however, chose to make this a raunchy adult romp in line with Caddyshack or Animal House.
Click DVD Review 
2009-05-12 - Adam Sandler does a great job in this DVD movie about a father and husband who consistently puts his career over his family, thinking all the time that it was in his family's best interest.
The story is about a mysterious universal remote given to him that helps him fast forward or rewind various aspects of life. At first this was helpful and convenient for him, but all too soon, the remote programming begins to take on a life of it's own, from what he originally programmed it to do.
The story is a modern take of scrooge in many ways reminding me of that theme. In today's modern culture, it is thought provoking about work and life balance. Highly recommend it.
way better than i expected
2009-02-15 - i really liked this film. i turned it on while planning to work on a project, but got completely sucked in. enjoyed this film!
