Hi folks, Joel here with my review of Jack and Jill,
Adam Sandler seems to be in some kind of creative limbo contest. As the only competitor, every film he makes strives to go lower than the next but at this stage Sandler’s string of flops and failures have gone as low as they can. This time around we get a double dose of the star that brought us “gems” like Grown Ups and Chuck and Larry.
Jack and Jill
Director: Dennis Dugan
Cast: Adam Sandler, Katie Holmes and Al Pacino
Running time: 83 minutes
Age restriction: PG
Genre: Comedy
Jack and Jill starts off promising enough with a montage of clips that interview several pairs of twins that testify on the difficulties they have with one another. It’s down hill from there though as the mental onslaught commences.
Jack is an advertising exec and family man who despises Thanksgiving for one big reason – his twin sister’s annual visit. Jill, the needy, overwhelming, creepy looking, vile woman is what you’d expect from a straight man dressed in drag for a tasteless comedy flick. So here’s to Sandler and the rest of the crop that suffer from Eddie Murphy syndrome – at least Murphy had the sense to leave that stage of his career in the past where it belongs.
Jack hates Jill, Jill loves Jack and wants the same attention that he used to give her when they were kids. Of course the clean cut Jack must be counterbalanced by this fiend that obviously suffers from various mental illnesses and overactive sweat glands. The story revolves around Jill emotionally blackmailing and guilt-tripping Jack into spending more time with her – literally every gag follows this formula.
Strangely, Jill attracts the love interest of one Al Pacino who plays an over the top caricature of himself. It’s sad (but not unrealistic) that the funniest part of Jack and Jill is in fact Pacino who executes his character as best he could. Sometimes being yourself is funny enough, unfortunately both of Sandler’s characters are equally repugnant, as is he. The humour lacks humour and ends up becoming one long fart joke filled cringefest that is barely tolerable.
I’m not proud to admit it but this is the first Adam Sandler flick that I have sat through till the end of the credits – this is due to the entertaining credit sequence that is in the same vein as the intro.
The Target
This sort of film will attract all kinds simply because it’s Sandler and it’s comedy. I can’t rule out the fact that there are parts in the film that are somewhat funny, just none of them contain Sandler. It’s rated as PG but I have no idea why.
The Bottom Line
In the long line of garbage that Adam Sandler has produced, this unfunny offering takes low-brow to a new low. The good news is that since Sandler has hit rock bottom, he can only get better from here…that is unless he starts digging and somehow manages to produce something even more heinous than Jack and Jill.
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May 12, 2012 at 12:24 am
It makes plenty of sense to me. Jack & Jill is just pure crap, it’s a quick buck, who cares if it’s shit or not… No big loss for Al Pacino, does a little acting for a piss-poor movie, gets a nice pay check out of it, pretends it never happened.
On a side note, can you tell me why Katie Holmes said no to The Dark Knight, but said yes to this?