Blind to the fact that it should be rising up against its own formulaic kind.
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04/25/08
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Jack & Jill vs. the World (2008)
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Reviews Counted:8
Fresh:2
Rotten:6
Average Rating:3.7/10
Rated: Not Rated
Runtime: 87 mins
Theatrical Release:Apr 11, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: Freddie Prinze Jr. returns to the romantic comedy genre that made him famous with this sweet film about love between opposites. Jack (Prinze) is a New York businessman who finds his dull life... [More]
Starring: Freddie Prinze, Taryn Manning, Kelly Rowan, Peter Stebbings
Director: Vanessa Parise
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Reviews for Jack & Jill vs. the World
1 - 8 (sorted by critic A-Z)
Top CriticWritten, directed, acted-in and produced by Parise, she's proven her creds as a one-woman employment agent. But, by now, she should be picking up that directing is a weak spot.
04/26/08
Parise no doubt intends the pic's attention to the disease -- plus animal adoption and fair trade coffee -- to be socially enlightening, but it feels suspiciously like sympathy-mongering.
04/24/08
Top CriticConsidering the talent assembled, the only audience draw here is the prospect of getting out of the rain.
04/11/08
...ultimately establishes itself as an affable endeavor that benefits substantially from the charismatic work of its two leads.
12/05/08
There's an overwhelming and quite repellent amount of gloss applied to the finished product, yet underneath it all are many scenes of honest emotional confession, distributed through wonderful atypical performances.
04/17/08
Achieves the holy trinity of painful earnestness, combining cute animals, sick teenagers and an idealistic belief in love and goodness that's actually deceptively judgmental.
04/26/08
More farce might have served the film well; as Parise draws from a playbook of medical melodrama and romantic-comedies clichés, her moral about living outside the box becomes harder and harder to swallow.
04/24/08
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