Jack and Jill (2011)

All Critics (105) | Top Critics (26) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (102) | DVD (3)

Totally mediocre...

January 31, 2012 Full Review

Matt Singer

Time Out

Top Critic

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 | Comments (2)

Peter Rainer

Christian Science Monitor

Top Critic

The apocalypse starts here.

November 11, 2011 Full Review | Comments (34)

Tom Long

Detroit News

Top Critic

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 | Comments (4)

Stephen Whitty

Newark Star-Ledger

Top Critic

It's cruel and creepy, not funny.

November 11, 2011 Full Review | Comments (5)

Jennie Punter

Globe and Mail

Top Critic

It's pretty sad if you're a comic and Al Pacino is the funniest thing in your movie.

November 11, 2011 Full Review | Comments (4)

Lou Lumenick

New York Post

Top Critic

Relentlessly witless.

March 14, 2013 Full Review

Andy Lea

Daily Star

Hasn't Al Pacino heard "Adam Sandler Sucks" before now?

December 28, 2012 Full Review

Roger Moore

McClatchy-Tribune News Service

Jack and Jill is an ill-advised, too long Saturday Night Live skit gone wrong. It's a cartoon. It's a way for all involved to pad their pockets and a way for Sandler to keep his friends employed.

September 22, 2012 Full Review

Kristal Cooper

We Got This Covered

Jack and Jill's lack of energy disguises contempt, but here [Sandler's] working through his issues in a more compelling way than usual.

June 20, 2012 Full Review

Mark Pfeiffer

Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema

...another complete and total misfire from the once-reliable Adam Sandler...

March 2, 2012 Full Review | Comment (1)

David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

Burn this. This cannot be seen. By anyone.

February 23, 2012 Full Review | Comments (8)

Liam Maguren

Flicks.co.nz

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

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Flick Filosopher

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February 17, 2012 Full Review

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

Graham Young

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

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

Peter Bradshaw

Guardian [UK]

The worst representation of Jews on screen since Jud Süß.

February 6, 2012 Full Review | Comments (4)

Ed Whitfield

The Ooh Tray

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

February 3, 2012 Full Review

This is London

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

February 2, 2012 Full Review

Christopher Tookey

Daily Mail [UK]

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

January 23, 2012 Full Review

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 | Comment (1)

James Luxford

The National

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

December 31, 2011 Full Review

Shaun Munro

What Culture

• 1. Jill Sadelstein: [to Otto] You don't look homeless to me, you're fat! You're Al Quida!
  – Submitted by Jed G (5 months ago)
• 1. Jill Sadelstein: Mom always said it's better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.
  – Submitted by Mary M (11 months ago)
• 1. Jill Sadelstein: WHERE WERE YOU?
  – Submitted by Mary M (11 months ago)
• 1. Jill Sadelstein: Are you going bald?
  2. Jack Sadelstein: Huh?
  3. Jill Sadelstein: No, no, no, no, you're getting fatter, and your hair doesn't realize it needs to cover more face.
  4. Jack Sadelstein: Okay.
  – Submitted by Jed G (13 months ago)
• 1. Jack Sadelstein: [Jill is in the bathroom] Hey Jill, can I talk to you for a second?
  2. Jill Sadelstein: No! My bags are packed and there's nothing left to... [farts] say! [farts again] I spent the day at Felipe's picnic where I finally felt welcome. [farts again] By everybody! I tried to serve food for the very first time! [farts again]
  3. Jack Sadelstein: I'm guessing Mexican?
  4. Jill Sadelstein: Yes, Mexican, Mr. Food Detector! [farts again] At Felipe's! [farts again, very loudly]
  5. Jack Sadelstein: What, is Evel Knievel doing wheelies in there?
  – Submitted by Jed G (13 months ago)
• 1. Jill Sadelstein: [whispering] He's homeless, right? He seems clean, but you should put one of those toilet seat protectors underneath him to make sure he doesn't ruin the chair.
  2. Jack Sadelstein: Are you whispering with a bullhorn or something? Everybody hears you.
  3. Jill Sadelstein: No, they can't, Mr. Hearing Expert.
  – Submitted by Mikhael M (13 months ago)