Adam Sandler reteams with director Frank Coraci (The Waterboy, The Wedding Singer) in this high-concept comedy that's undermined by queasy sentimentality. Sandler plays a workaholic architect who acquires what he thinks will be the solution to all his problems - a universal remote control that allows him to fast-forward his way through things that peeve him. But he soon realises that skipping life's little obstacles means he misses out on a lot more besides. This is Sandler at his least likeable, and the starry supporting cast struggles to make much headway: David Hasselhoff has fun as his nasty boss, but Christopher Walken is on wacky autopilot as a mysterious boffin, while Kate Beckinsale is wasted as Sandler's long-suffering wife.

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.