Sprint to the Oscars - Click

The Sneaky Cheetah continues his quest to see every nominated film before the Academy Awards!

Click
Nominated for Best Makeup

I thought I had outgrown Adam Sandler. I grew up with the Sandler /Farley /Myers SNL, and I find most of that cast's film work to be hilarious (Billy Madison = Most quotable movie ever!). But Sandler's films have been slipping of late. Click reverses that trend. It's a funny though predictable film. Great one-liners point to a better script than films dependant on Sandler doing a funny voice for 90 minutes. But it's still low-brow comedy at it's best/worst. So how did land an Oscar nom? Well, there is smokin' hot Kate Bekinsale, who should get the Oscar for Best Wearing of Short Shorts. Or maybe for throwing Hasselhoff a bone. But no, it's for makeup.

When Sandler uses his universal remote to fast forward time, it eventually starts to fast forward on it's own. So we get to see middle age Adam Sandler in a big fat suit and then old man Sandler in his 70s. The makeup is fantastic. It's hard to look at Sandler in the makeup and be fooled, but the work on Kate Bekinsale and Sean Astin is makeup magic at it's finest. Also, there's an Arab Sheik at the beginning of the film and it took me a few minutes to recognize Rob Schneider. Now that's great makeup! B

The Makeup Nomination is for Bill Corso, who previously won in 2005 for Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, and first time nominee Kazuhiro Tsuji.

SPOILER! - How cool would it have been to end the film as Sandler dies an old man, regretting the use of the remote and bitter at having missed the lives of his wife and kids? Tragic and Memorable. But instead we get the Scrooge ending. "It was just a dream! I can do things differently! It's not too late!" Bah Humbug!