Jack and Jill
2011 Directed by Dennis Dugan
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His twin sister is coming for the holidays... ...and it ain't pretty.
Jack Sadelstein, a successful advertising executive in Los Angeles with a beautiful wife and kids, dreads one event each year: the Thanksgiving visit of his twin sister Jill. Jill's neediness and passive-aggressiveness is maddening to Jack, turning his normally tranquil life upside down.
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Jack and Jill is Adam Sandler's undisputed masterpiece, and clearly a true classic of modern cinema.
In Sandler's previous film Funny People, he touched on the issue of comedic film stars doing ridiculous, awful children's movies. Posters such as "Re-Do" of a baby with a man's head, and "Mer-Man" littered the film, showing the career of a comedian who just needed some quick cash or even quick fame, willing to lower his standards to doing gimmicky kids films. Jack and Jill is his follow up piece of art, satirising and closely examining the genre that was the butt of a few, quick jokes in Funny People. When Sandler plays twin brother and sister, he is mirroring the performances of actual…
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When you think Adam Sandler’s career couldn’t possibly stoop any lower he actually took South Park’s AWESOM-O parody episode as a valid source for movie ideas. The thought of twin Sandlers is as offensively excruciating as an entire family of farting Eddie Murphys and the results are predictably disastrous and laugh free. It boggles the mind that this could gross $150 million in theatres - just how many mentally ill people actually went and paid good money to go and see this (maybe it involved lots of asylum day trips)?
Sandler really stretches himself here delivering two nuanced and sensitive performances as chalk and cheese twins. Jill is a particularly terrible comic creation that actually makes the ‘normal’ Sandler character,…
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Well, looks like I'm gonna be shitting blood for the next couple of days.
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Damn you, Al Pacino! Damn you for making me watch this piece of shit!
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My one year old son filled his diaper to the brim with sticky pooh the other day.......cleaning that was infinitely more fun than watching this garbage.
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By a strange twist of fate I watched this after the excellent House (it was on while I was cooking some Uncle Ben's Chilli con Carne). House being an experimental horror film that doubles as a commercial for the medium of cinema, while Jack and Jill is a horrible 'comedy' film that doubles as a commercial for a variety of food and drink products. I feel like i've witnessed both ends of the cinematic spectrum this afternoon, I just wish I'd watched them the other way around, or not watched this in the first place. Thankfully I missed a good portion of the film due to stirring my Uncle Ben's Chilli, which tasted fantastic.
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I actually enjoyed this movie, not even joking.
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An egregious sin worth everlasting damnation in sub-Kardashian hell.
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Well, looks like I'm gonna be shitting blood for the next couple of days.
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As much as I would love to believe that Adam Sandler knowingly tried to make one of the worst movies ever and this is all one big elaborate ruse. But even if that was the case, it's pretty goddamn unbearable.
The extra half-star is for all the times I found myself laughing about how ridiculous it was that I was watching this movie.
Oh, and if you were wondering why I watched this, it's because I fucking hate myself.
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it's arguable that this isnt actually a movie
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Hahahahahahahaha its worse than you've heard. But so, so good.
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six words: jet ski in the swimming pool!
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Fuck this movie.
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Divertido. A praxe hollywoodiana, mas com teor familiar. Como ser gêmeo é magico!