The story follows the format of classic tales like Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” and the film “It’s a Wonderful Life” with a character shown all that they have lost as well as all they have missed out or been aware of because of their conscious and unconscious actions. The difference with “Click” is that Michael isn’t given a tour of his future life, he actually lives it. As the remote (remembering his preferences) automatically launches him past any tedious or troublesome spot in his life, he finds the people he loves and the connections he has to his family slipping out of his reach, leaving himself witness to his own mistakes and regrets after it’s too late to repair them. Director Coraci and the writers also use the idea of the remote to visualize how after a death, we all repeatedly revisit and replay our last crucial moments or words with a loved one, but with a renewed and aching perspective of the importance those moments have. There are a few scenes and sequences in “Click” that are legitimately moving, even haunting.

It’s extremely rare for a big studio, high-concept comedy to match its potential, but director Coraci and writers Steve Koren & Mark O’Keefe have done something even rarer: they’ve surpassed it. While working within the structure of the central comedic idea, they’ve delved deeper and created a heartfelt, insightful and often hilarious gem.

“Click” was shot in HD on the Panavision Genesis HD camera (which was also used on “Superman Returns”) so the Blu-ray release should look pristine and near identical to the original master. Again, as with their release of “Monster House” Sony has bungled it again, and has not opted to encode the disc from its original digital files. Instead, they’ve used a film element, which has distanced the disc from the original source by several generations and added unpleasant anomalies. It’s a colorful transfer, but is overly contrasty and murky in parts, with some darker scenes, seeming downright dingy. Any of the darker tones, like dark blues and browns all fall off and are rendered as black. Imagery is sharp and more detailed than a standard DVD, especially during brighter scenes, but large sections of the film are grainy. Theatrical film prints also had the same issues, and the screening I attended looked identical to the Blu-ray disc. A movie shot on one of the highest end HD cameras by one of the leading lighting cameramen (Dean Semler) really should not look this bad, and it presumably stems from the digital to film transfer.

The uncompressed PCM audio is clean and clear. It’s not a particularly noteworthy track, but it’s free of distortion and pleasing. There isn’t much usage made of the surround channels, but the subject matter doesn’t really call for it. Sound is primarily steered to the front 3 channels, and dialogue is always clean and the mix volume consistent throughout.

“Click” is the first Blu-ray disc released with the double-layer 50GB capacity. Sony uses the room to present all of the video extras in full 1080p HD. The disc menu is cleverly designed to resemble the remote’s menu within the film. The looping menu audio sound bites become grating after awhile. The audio commentary is amusing and jokey with frequent repartee between the participants. There’s information to be had here, but it’s primarily a casual track. There are 7 featurettes, totaling 28 minutes and are worth watching. Some of the behind-the-scenes footage originates from standard definition video, but the on-camera interviews and the lion’s share of material is in HD. The deleted scenes are just short little trims for the most part, but are amusing and a treat to see fully finished and in HD. The extra bump in quality and sharpness on the extras is impressive, and it adds a level of class to the bonus materials.