metacritic.com: Jack and Jill vs. the World

Jack and Jill vs. the World

Starring Freddie Prinze Jr., Taryn Manning, Mark Forster, Vanessa Parise, Kelly Rowan, and Peter Stebbings

MPAA RATING: PG-13 for sexual content and brief strong language

Lantern Lane/Urbantone Media Group
Comedy | Romance
minutes | Color
USA / Canada
Released In Theaters April 11, 2008

Jack is a 30-something advertising exec in New York City who lives a life forged from routine. He is successful, stylish, and entirely bored...until he meets Jill. In her 20s, fiery, and adorable, Jill enters Jack's life like a hurricane. They meet and instantly connect, launching into a romance. Together they write a "Manifesto of Rules to Live By," beginning with "Rule 1 – Be Honest." But after too many instances of Jill's disappearing, Jack forces Jill to reveal her secret. (Lantern Lan/Urbantone Media Group)

WRITTEN BY
Peter Stebbings
Vanessa Parise

DIRECTED BY
Vanessa Parise

Overall Metascore

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Critic Reviews

40	LA Weekly Sam Sweet 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.
40	Variety Peter Debruge 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.
30	Los Angeles Times Robert Abele Bubbly to the point of indigestion and mechanical about ticking off the romantic trajectory.

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