Jack and Jill (2011)/ Movie Review

Release Date: 11 November 2011 (USA) 

Taglines: His twin sister is coming for the holidays... ...and it ain't pretty.

Genre: Comedy

Family guy Jack Sadelstein prepares for the annual event he dreads: the Thanksgiving visit of his identical twin sister, the needy and passive-aggressive Jill, who then refuses to leave.

Director: Dennis Dugan
Writers: Adam Sandler (screenplay) Steve Koren (screenplay), Ben Zook (story)
Cast : Adam Sandler, Katie Holmes, Al Pacino, Elodie Tougne , Rohan Chand, Eugenio Derbez , David Spade, Nick Swardson, Tim Meadows , Allen Covert, Norm MacDonald, Geoff Pierson ,Valerie Mahaffey , Gary Valentine,   
Storyline

Jack Sadelstein (Adam Sandler) is a successful advertising executive in Los Angeles with a beautiful wife (Katie Holmes) 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. Written by Columbia Pictures  

Filming Locations: Allure of the Seas
Production Co: Broken Road Productions, Happy Madison Productions
Sound Mix: SDDS  | DTS (as Datasat Digital Sound) | Dolby Digital
Original Music by Rupert Gregson-Williams        
Cinematography by Dean Cundey        
Film Editing by Tom Costain        
Casting by Roger Mussenden & Jeremy Rich       
Production Design by Perry Andelin Blake       

The trailer is the highlights

The standard that Adam Sandler movies has set is pretty low, but even with such low expectations going to the movie, the movie still felt terrible. The gag is twins and ignoring that healthy identical twins with different genders is impossible, we get to see Adam Sandler dress up as a woman. And, we get to see Adam Sandler dress up as a woman a lot, ridiculously lot and so much so, that Jack Adam Sandler and the rest of the cast are just supporting actors to the almighty squawking of Jill Adam Sandler.
We could say this is just Adam Sandler up to his usual antics but Jill Adam Sandler hogs up the screen time and nothing about her really makes any sort of logical sense. There is Al Pacino as himself who falls for Jill, a possibility that the writers explain away as madness or nervous breakdown of Al Pacino. Then, there is Jill who is loved by the kids and Jack's wife Erin (played by Katie Holmes) for reasons that Jill doesn't portray on screen and we are never shown, all we are shown is the mean and manipulative Jill. The Jill that Adam Sandler portrays is his own immature rendition of a woman, filled with toilet humor and displays of uncharacteristic skills and strength as positive attributes. Jill is portrayed uninteresting and vacuous though written differently, and that being the center of the movie makes the movie uninteresting and tiresome.
The movie would have been an acceptable Sandler movie if Jill had been played by a woman who could actually portray a big heart. The previous Sandler movies were enjoyable movies, but Jack and Jill is a real stinker, barely watchable. The only thing I found interesting was the background opulence of everyone around, thrown around so casually that it really feels like the big guys involved in the movie have severely lost touch with their audience and given way to sloth where they think anything they do is magical. Avoid the movie.

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