Jack and Jill

Name: Jack and Jill
Genre: Comedy
Released: November 11, 2011
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 23
Cast: Adam Sandler, Al Pacino, Katie Holmes

2011

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Columbia Pictures | Release Date: November 11, 2011 | Not Rated

Starring: Adam Sandler, Al Pacino, Katie Holmes

Summary: Jack and Jill is a comedy focusing on Jack Sadelstein, a successful advertising executive in Los Angeles with a beautiful wife and kids, who dreads one event each year: the Thanksgiving visit of his identical twin sister Jill. Jill's neediness and passive-aggressiveness is maddening to Jack, turning his normally tranquil life upside down.Jack and Jill is a comedy focusing on Jack Sadelstein, a successful advertising executive in Los Angeles with a beautiful wife and kids, who dreads one event each year: the Thanksgiving visit of his identical twin sister Jill. Jill's neediness and passive-aggressiveness is maddening to Jack, turning his normally tranquil life upside down. Katie Holmes plays Erin, Jack's wife. (Sony Pictures)
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Director: Dennis Dugan

Genre(s): Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 96 min

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Tom Russo

Nov 10, 2011

What's more genuinely wacky is what a kick the movie can sometimes be, completely in spite of its big, flat stunt. Read full review

Mick LaSalle

Nov 10, 2011

Though the Jill problem is too insurmountable to ignore, almost everything else in this comedy succeeds. Read full review

Boxoffice Magazine Amy Nicholson

Nov 10, 2011

Jack and Jill is a barrage of fart jokes and fat jokes and mean jokes that sincerely thinks it deserves to end with a hug. It doesn't deserve awwwws - and it doesn't deserve your money. Read full review

Robert Abele

Nov 10, 2011

In the wake of "Bridesmaids," Sandler's lipsticked tomfoolery - and inability to share the screen with genuinely funny women - feels particularly regressive and stale. Both movies have diarrhea gags, but only one feels defined by such humor. Read full review

Michael O'Sullivan

Nov 10, 2011

The unapologetic laziness and ineptitude of Jack's impersonation, which is played for cheap laughs, is just as lazy as Sandler's performance as the real Jill. You don't buy it for a minute. Read full review

Scott Tobias

Nov 12, 2011

What makes Jack And Jill worse than the average Sandler vehicle is Jill, who's been conceived as little more than a dude in drag, hold the jokes. Read full review

Peter Travers

Nov 10, 2011

A total bust, a stupefyingly unfunny and shamelessly lazy farce packed with cringe-worthy jokes and overt product placement. Read full review

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paulgreen

Feb 5, 2012

I think that it very interesting film about brother and sister. Every Critic, who wrote something wrong about this film is very stuped! Because this film has got meaning in contrast Mission Impaseble: Ghost Protocol!

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vinni_p_sauce

Mar 16, 2020

adam sandler is a gud actor i like very much yes and jack and jill gud movie yes

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RecycledAir

Jul 4, 2013

"Jack and Jill" was torn apart by critics and users on this website, it was criticized for its acting, execution, plot, script, etc. People either love it or hate it, I'm here to give it the rating that it deserves. It is a fact that "Jack and Jill" isn't as funny as most of Adam Sandler's"Jack and Jill" was torn apart by critics and users on this website, it was criticized for its acting, execution, plot, script, etc. People either love it or hate it, I'm here to give it the rating that it deserves. It is a fact that "Jack and Jill" isn't as funny as most of Adam Sandler's previous movies, but it did have it's funny moments, what I took away from the movie is it's lack of witty humor, most of the humor in this movie is slapstick. What can I say, I need brains with my jokes. The acting wasn't perfect and its jokes were not great, but I did have a somewhat good time with this movie, I will not give this movie a positive review because of its lack of humorous moments and the film in general was not all that great, it wasn't terrible but it wasn't good either, I will always have mixed feelings for this movie and probably will never see it again. So, my final thoughts are, the movie is very forgettable, it was somewhat entertaining and it was Adam Sandler's least entertaining movie. If you like cheesy humor, you'll like this movie, but for anyone else who like witty humor, you might want to skip this film.… Expand

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ZXSth

Jan 29, 2023

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This is an utterly abysmal movie. I have never felt truly depressed while watching a movie, but this atrocity really did make me briefly long for the dark void that is death. It isn't funny, interesting or enjoyable at all. Jack and Jill's one redeeming feature is the so-bad-it's-good "Dunkaccino" - a rap by Al Pacino about a drink at Dunkin' Donuts. Watch the clip of it on YouTube, then never think about the movie it came from. Ever.… Expand

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celica

Dec 27, 2011

Overall Movie: 0 Acting: 0 Storyline: 0. Adam Sandler now has more misses than hits. Great films like Happy Gilmore and Dont mess with the Zohan will be forgotten altogether if he does not pull his finger out.

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CasandraComplex

Jun 6, 2022

Dear Metacritic,
Please DELETE every account that gives this waste of money a 10 FOR YOU NOW HAVE A REAL TEST WHO THE FAKE ACCOUNTS ARE!!

It was nit even a movie.. litterraly a waste of time

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Yoshipie

Dec 4, 2011

This movie may be one of the worst I've ever encountered. Extremely unoriginal, very predictable and quite annoying. Adam Sandler may be a great family-friendly actor, but it would be good if another person played Jack and Jill. Speaking of which, a man playing a female is a disturbing ideaThis movie may be one of the worst I've ever encountered. Extremely unoriginal, very predictable and quite annoying. Adam Sandler may be a great family-friendly actor, but it would be good if another person played Jack and Jill. Speaking of which, a man playing a female is a disturbing idea and quite unsuitable for a child's viewing. This is one of a few movies that I extremely do not recommend to watch.… Expand

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