It’s been a while since the critical establishment really, really hated something enough for Movieline to feature a customary “Scathing Responses” round-up. But they have emptied their spleens today for Jack and Jill, the new Adam Sandler “comedy” that our own critic Alison Willmore described as “a film whose star often seems moments away from turning to the camera and yelling ‘ARE YOU LAUGHING NOW?’”
But even Alison found glints of redemption in such factors as Al Pacino playing a lovesick send-up of his contemporary screen persona. Other reviewers were not as affected — thus the bile tsunami ensuing today. Head for the hills!
9. “Jack and Jill is not so much a movie, but a challenge to your soul.�Maybe it is designed to make us wonder if there is a God, and if He will save you from this disaster.�He won’t.” — Willie Waffle, The CW
8. “Directed with the customary lack of effort by Dennis Dugan and slopped over with sticky sentimentality in its final moments to mask its overall meanness, Jack and Jill is so bad that you know the people who made it knew better, but simply didn’t care enough to fix it. They’re pandering to anyone who ever bought tickets to a Happy Madison production, and by buying into this one, you’d only be encouraging them to get worse. Stop the madness. Avoid this.” — Katey Rich, Cinema Blend
7. “The only message here, meta or otherwise, is this:…
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