Click
2006 · Directed by Frank Coraci
Woke Score
CriticCritic Score
Audience
Ultra Based
Critics rated this 37 points above its woke score. Among Ultra Based films, this critic score ranks #1267 of 1469.
Representation Casting
Score: 5/100
The cast includes actors of various ethnic backgrounds, but their presence is incidental to the narrative. No characters of color have significant roles or development in the story.
LGBTQ+ Themes
Score: 0/100
There is no evidence of LGBTQ+ representation or themes in the film. The narrative centers entirely on heterosexual family dynamics.
Feminist Agenda
Score: 3/100
Kate Beckinsale's character serves primarily as a patient, suffering wife waiting for her husband to change. The film does not interrogate gender roles or power dynamics within marriage.
Racial Consciousness
Score: 0/100
The film contains no racial consciousness, commentary on race, or engagement with racial themes. Diverse casting is purely demographic.
Climate Crusade
Score: 0/100
There is no evidence of climate-related themes or environmental consciousness in the film.
Eat the Rich
Score: 15/100
While the film critiques individual workaholism and corporate ladder-climbing, it frames these as personal moral failures rather than systemic problems. The critique is therapeutic, not structural.
Body Positivity
Score: 0/100
The film contains no body positivity themes or commentary on physical appearance and acceptance.
Neurodivergence
Score: 0/100
There is no representation of or engagement with neurodivergence in the film.
Revisionist History
Score: 0/100
The film is not a historical work and contains no revisionist historical elements.
Lecture Energy
Score: 20/100
The film's climax relies on explicit moral messaging about priorities and family values, though it avoids heavy-handed preaching in favor of sentimental emotional beats.
Synopsis
A married workaholic, Michael Newman doesn't have time for his wife and children, not if he's to impress his ungrateful boss and earn a well-deserved promotion. So when he meets Morty, 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.
Consciousness Assessment
Click arrives as a curious artifact of mid-2000s mainstream cinema, a film that mistakes sentimentality for insight and treats the consequences of male ambition with the gravity of a greeting card. The narrative presents workaholic Michael Newman's journey not as a critique of capitalist excess but as a personal failing to be corrected through domestic redemption, a message that sits comfortably with the very power structures the film purports to critique. Kate Beckinsale exists primarily as the patient, suffering wife who waits for her husband to learn his lesson, a characterization that predates modern conversations about female agency by several years and shows no signs of interrogating its own assumptions.
The film's approach to representation is entirely incidental to its plot. The cast includes actors of various backgrounds, but they function as decorative elements in a story that has no interest in their perspectives or experiences. A magical device that literally allows the protagonist to skip over inconvenient moments in life serves as the film's central metaphor, yet the screenplay fails to recognize the profound selfishness embedded in this fantasy. Instead, we are asked to find humor in the protagonist's ability to fast-forward through conversations, relationships, and human connection itself.
What lingers is the film's comfort with the status quo dressed up as wisdom. The resolution suggests that the answer to systemic inequality and the exhaustion of modern life is personal moral correction rather than structural change, a position that audiences in 2006 seemed willing to accept. The film remains an earnest but ideologically conventional exercise in mainstream entertainment, one that privileges sentiment over substance and asks nothing of its viewers except to accept that ambition is bad, family is good, and these truths require no deeper examination.
Analysis generated by our Consciousness Algorithm
Critic Reviews
“One of the best American films of the year so far.”
“Not everything jells, but Click is funnier and more elaborately clever than anything Sandler's done in years.”
“This comic fantasy is the best vehicle he's (Sandler) ever had, a high-concept goof that gradually darkens into an emotional nightmare reminiscent of Capra.”
Consciousness Markers
The cast includes actors of various ethnic backgrounds, but their presence is incidental to the narrative. No characters of color have significant roles or development in the story.
There is no evidence of LGBTQ+ representation or themes in the film. The narrative centers entirely on heterosexual family dynamics.
Kate Beckinsale's character serves primarily as a patient, suffering wife waiting for her husband to change. The film does not interrogate gender roles or power dynamics within marriage.
The film contains no racial consciousness, commentary on race, or engagement with racial themes. Diverse casting is purely demographic.
There is no evidence of climate-related themes or environmental consciousness in the film.
While the film critiques individual workaholism and corporate ladder-climbing, it frames these as personal moral failures rather than systemic problems. The critique is therapeutic, not structural.
The film contains no body positivity themes or commentary on physical appearance and acceptance.
There is no representation of or engagement with neurodivergence in the film.
The film is not a historical work and contains no revisionist historical elements.
The film's climax relies on explicit moral messaging about priorities and family values, though it avoids heavy-handed preaching in favor of sentimental emotional beats.