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Jack and Jill

Jack and Jill (2011)

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Average Rating: 2.6/10
Reviews Counted: 98
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 95

Although it features an inexplicably committed performance from Al Pacino, Jack and Jill is impossible to recommend on any level whatsoever.

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Average Rating: 3/10
Critic Reviews: 23
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 23

Although it features an inexplicably committed performance from Al Pacino, Jack and Jill is impossible to recommend on any level whatsoever.

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Jack and Jill is a comedy focusing on Jack Sadelstein (Adam Sandler), a successful advertising executive in Los Angeles with a beautiful wife and kids, who dreads one event each year: the Thanksgiving visit of his identical twin sister Jill (also Adam Sandler). Jill's neediness and passive-aggressiveness is maddening to Jack, turning his normally tranquil life upside down. Katie Holmes plays Erin, Jack's wife. -- (C) Sony Pictures

PG, 1 hr. 33 min.

Comedy, Romance

Steve Koren, Robert Smigel, Adam Sandler

Mar 6, 2012

$74.0M

Sony Pictures

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Critic Reviews for Jack and Jill

All Critics (98) | Top Critics (23) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (95) | DVD (2)

Sandler has become a good actor of late, but here he gives over most of his talents to Jill, who is so screechy, needy, and lovelorn that you can hardly blame Jack for wanting to fade into the background.

November 11, 2011 Full Review Source: Christian Science Monitor | Comment (1)
Peter Rainer
Christian Science Monitor
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The apocalypse starts here.

November 11, 2011 Full Review Source: Detroit News | Comments (23)
Tom Long
Detroit News
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It's all pretty unfunny, and leaves you too much time to wonder about other things. Like, how did this sludge ever get a PG rating?

November 11, 2011 Full Review Source: Newark Star-Ledger | Comments (3)
Stephen Whitty
Newark Star-Ledger
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It's cruel and creepy, not funny.

November 11, 2011 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | Comments (4)
Jennie Punter
Globe and Mail
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It's pretty sad if you're a comic and Al Pacino is the funniest thing in your movie.

November 11, 2011 Full Review Source: New York Post | Comments (3)
Lou Lumenick
New York Post
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Extruded from Sandler's Happy Madison filmic laugh factory, Jack and Jill makes lowbrow seem like grand opera, relying once again on fart, poop and sweat jokes to inject both yuks and yucks into the proceedings.

November 11, 2011 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comments (2)
Linda Barnard
Toronto Star
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There appears to be no reason for the pitiless story this appalling movie has to tell beyond portraying Jill as an all-around despicable creature: socially inept and physically disgusting, incapable of grace and impossible to tolerate...

February 18, 2012 Full Review Source: Flick Filosopher | Comment
MaryAnn Johanson
Flick Filosopher

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February 17, 2012 Full Review Source: Movies for the Masses | Comment
Joseph Proimakis
Movies for the Masses

The good news is that Sandler is marginally better in drag than he is playing himself.

February 10, 2012 Full Review Source: Birmingham Mail | Comment
Graham Young
Birmingham Mail Source: Birmingham Mail

Why not go to your nearest hardware store, exchange your admission fee for a pot of emulsion, and watch that dry instead?

February 8, 2012 Full Review Source: Sky Movies | Comment
Daniel Bettridge
Sky Movies

It could easily have been a single-joke poster shot in a deleted scene from Funny People. Only it is less funny and less interesting.

February 8, 2012 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | Comment
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]

The worst representation of Jews on screen since Jud Süß.

February 6, 2012 Full Review Source: The Ooh Tray | Comment (1)
Ed Whitfield
The Ooh Tray Source: The Ooh Tray

Dennis Dugan's film mixes slapstick and jokes about diarrhoea.

February 3, 2012 Full Review Source: This is London | Comment
This is London

Amazingly, Jack And Jill is even lousier than I feared it would be.

February 2, 2012 Full Review Source: Daily Mail [UK] | Comment
Christopher Tookey
Daily Mail [UK]

Totally mediocre...

January 31, 2012 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment
Matt Singer
Time Out Source: Time Out

Sandler's brash, unpretentious and unsubtle family comedy might be more enjoyable if it wasn't so mean.

January 23, 2012 Full Review Source: Total Film | Comment
Ellen E Jones
Total Film

a film that may be remembered as one of the worst of the Wedding Singer actor's career.

January 4, 2012 Full Review Source: The National | Comment (1)
James Luxford
The National Source: The National

So unforgivably, soul-destroying bad it'll have you wishing Pacino had made Righteous Kill 2 instead.

December 31, 2011 Full Review Source: What Culture | Comment
Shaun Munro
What Culture Source: What Culture

Why, Al Pacino, why?

December 28, 2011 Full Review Source: Star-Democrat (Easton, MD) | Comment (1)
Greg Maki
Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)

How much did they pay Pacino to do this? Four million dollars? Ten million? Who knows. But let's be very clear straight up: this is not Pacino's Being John Malkovich.

December 7, 2011 Full Review Source: ABC Radio (Australia) | Comment
CJ Johnson
ABC Radio (Australia) Source: ABC Radio (Australia)

Hastily assembled, uneven and severely lacking in charm and laughs, Jack and Jill is one of Sandler's weakest outings to date. Which is saying something.

December 4, 2011 Full Review Source: The Sun Herald | Comment
Ed Gibbs
The Sun Herald Source: The Sun Herald

HEY LOOK, IT'S A CELEBRITY CAMEO! HEY LOOK, IT'S A CELEBRITY CAMEO! - See how annoying that is? Adam Sandler doesn't.

December 2, 2011 Full Review Source: The Mercury | Comment
Tim Martain
The Mercury Source: The Mercury

Adam Sandler has succumbed to the Eddie Murphy syndrome. He's afflicted with the belief that we can't get enough of him.

December 1, 2011 Full Review Source: Sydney Morning Herald | Comment (1)
Sandra Hall
Sydney Morning Herald

How will future generations judge us for the huge box-office love we've shown Adam Sandler over the years?

December 1, 2011 Full Review Source: Herald Sun (Australia) | Comments (2)
Leigh Paatsch
Herald Sun (Australia)

If you're a lover of slapstick and find men dressing (very badly) as women amusing, this may hold your attention.

December 1, 2011 Full Review Source: MovieFIX | Comment
Claire Gould
MovieFIX Source: MovieFIX
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New low for Adam Sandler. He's had his weak moments before, with movies like Grown Ups and Little Nicky, but this...this is something else. Imagine if Jar Jar Binks and Fran Drescher had a daughter together, then put Sandler's dimwitted face on her, and voilá - you have the character of Jill. As for Jack, he's

August 11, 2011
CloudStrife84
Mike S

Super Reviewer

Wow Mr Sandler! what on earth is going on here!? I realise you are not exactly flavour of the month anymore but was this REALLY needed??Talk about shovelling the shit Jesus! there was a time when Sandler was quite amusing and his films about standing up for the average Joe's whilst playing the typical everyman were

February 9, 2012
phubbs1
Phil Hubbard

Super Reviewer

Jack and Jill Quotes

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    1. Jack Sadelstein: My balls are itchey!
    – Submitted by Jack F (4 days ago)
    1. Jack Sadelstein: You're looking a little like Bin Laden there.
    – Submitted by Austin G (31 days ago)
    1. Felipe: Oh yes. We play games, we eat, we steal white people's money.
    2. Jill Sadelstein: What?
    3. Felipe: I'm kidding. We don't eat.
    – Submitted by Austin G (31 days ago)
    1. Jill Sadelstein: Maybe I should stay through Hanukkah.
    – Submitted by Austin G (2 months ago)
    1. Jack Sadelstein: This is the guy who's gonna do a Dunken Doughnuts commercial.
    – Submitted by Austin G (2 months ago)

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