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Schmoopie had a slumber party to attend last night so after we dumped her off we gleefully bolted to adult-land: imbibed at an adult beverage establishment, grabbed a slice of pizza (white pizza with spinach and cherry tomatoes for me--yum), strolled around and watched an outdoor metal concert for a bit and then wandered off to the big movie-plex downtown where we saw "Click."

All I can say about Adam Sandler is he was at his peak (for me) back when he was doing Opera Man on SNL and did the Monica-Hannukah song. I was less than entranced last night. Adam is a nice guy and all that but I would have loved to see Denis Leary in the role...with nudity...anyhoo--the chick playing his long-suffering wife looks no more like a chick who has had two kids and would be married to a loser, Twinkie-swilling, workaholic/yes-man than I look like Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. Kate Beckinsale and Adam? Puulease. I guess since Adam's production company produced this movie he got to have the typical middle-aged white guy fantasy of being a so-so-looking average Joe with a beer gut and a bad attitude who ignores his kids and refuses to give his wife a massage before sex but is still somehow able to be married to a Victoria's Secret model-type. Sad, sad, sad. And the other thing I don't get is this: why does Holllywood keep hiring British/Australian chicks to play American chicks? WTF with that? Like we don't have enough Amercian actresses who could have done the role? Now I know why the Brits hated Renee Zellweger doing Bridget Jones. Talent aside, it's the principal and it just doesn't wash with me.

So, final wrap-up: I give it a 4 on a scale of 1 to 10 mostly because of the absurd casting and the unforgivable,unoriginal and cynical lameness of the "It's a Wonderful Life"/"Back to the Future" rip-off. But I LOVED Christopher Walken's performance as usual and will see him in anything. And mel will like Click because they don't say "fuck" one time. I counted. Zero "fucks." Honest.

Next review: Nacho Libre. Oh. My. God.