Jack and Jill Reviews
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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.
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| Original Score: C+
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?
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| Original Score: 2/4
It's pretty sad if you're a comic and Al Pacino is the funniest thing in your movie.
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| Original Score: 0/4
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.
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| Original Score: 0.5/4
It is indeed every bit as lousy as it looks. So kudos to the marketing department, I guess. They nailed this one.
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| Original Score: D
Lazy and slapdash, the work of a comedian trusting too much in his own hilariousness.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Feels like an elementary school recess that's gone on too long, the merrymaking strained and the participants looking tired even when they're in full comic dudgeon.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
More than 24 hours has passed since I watched the new Adam Sandler movie Jack and Jill and I am still dead inside.
The pic's general stupidity, careless direction and reliance on a single-joke premise that was never really funny to begin with are only the most obvious of its problems.
I'm sorry to say that this may be Mr. Pacino's most convincing performance in years.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
Al Pacino romantically pursuing a cross-dressing Adam Sandler around a medieval castle should be stunningly surreal, so it's a not-inconsiderable failure that Jack and Jill manages only dim, desperate outrageousness instead.
Comedy moved on from the mid-1990s, and it's time Sandler did, too. "Jack and Jill" even gives fart jokes a bad name.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
A comedy that has one good joke, four strange cameos and a spirit so juvenile kids may wonder what Sandler's deal is.
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| Original Score: 0.5/4
There are moments in "Jack and Jill" that are genuinely funny - and, just like countless family reunions, there are moments when you can't wait for it to end.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Jack and Jill is total bust, a stupefyingly unfunny and shamelessly lazy farce packed with cringe-worthy jokes and overt product placement.
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| Original Score: 0/4
The whole drag routine just isn't all that funny, and the character eases from intolerably abrasive to tolerably dumb only when it is time to shoehorn in the usual nominal life lessons.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
But no, Jack has to be an abrasive jerk to his sister so that, in the final act, he can learn his lesson and embrace his twin and blah blah blah fart joke.
It is also typical in that it contains a lot of witless bathroom and ethnic humor...
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| Original Score: 2/5
It's an uphill battle for Jack and Jill with this leaky pail of comic swill.
Even by sloppy Sandler movie standards, this one's a wreck - fart jokes, potty zingers and pit-stain gags.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Left to his own devices, Sandler reverts to his worst, laziest habits. He forgets that what might have been tolerable in a three-minute "Saturday Night Live" skit becomes excruciating when stretched to feature-film length.
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| Original Score: 1/4
It is what it is - and, more importantly, exactly what Happy Madison fans want it to be: something unruly, stupid and sort of funny, in the same way - and to exactly the same extent - that passing gas is funny.
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| Original Score: 1/4
