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Jack and Jill2011 | 91 min | PG | 1.85:1
I’m not even sure this qualifies as a real movie. The downward spiral of Adam Sandler’s Hollywood career hits rock bottom with “Jack and Jill,” a wheezy, possibly inbred comedy which ends up as nothing more than a series of individual sketches linked together by a single visual joke. Farts are farted and balls are scratched, but what’s really depressing to witness here is Sandler’s complete laziness, failing to secure at least one measly laugh, trashing his once delightfully absurdist self to make a grotesque comedy that doesn’t even attempt to sustain a plot, instead brimming with poo-poo and pee-pee jokes. This movie barely has a pulse. 
A commercial director with a loving wife (Katie Holmes) and two adoring kids, Jack (Adam Sandler) is dreading the holiday season, forced to spend time with his fraternal twin Jill (Adam Sandler). Hoping for a grand family get-together, Jill is shocked to learn that Jack wants her out of the house as quickly as possible, giving him time to dream up a pitch that would entice Al Pacino (playing himself) to star in a Dunkin Donuts ad campaign. After several botched attempts at sibling merriment, Jack is ready to ditch his sister, only to find Pacino has developed an intense attraction to the, um, handsome woman. Sensing a perfect opportunity to merge Jill and her intense loneliness with Pacino and his unrelenting horniness, Jack tries valiantly to hook the two up, perturbed to learn his twin is unresponsive to the Oscar winner’s charms. The gimmick here is Sandler in a dual role, playing uptight Jack and his obnoxious, emotionally volatile sister Jill. One has a whiny voice, sweats like a pig, and carries her pet bird everywhere. The other is Jack. It’s a dream role for the actor, who gets to maintain his affluent doofus persona for yet another film, while also cutting loose as a buck-toothed female built like a linebacker, screeching lines as Jill goes about her daily routine of property destruction and freak-outs. And that’s pretty much it for fancy ideas with “Jack and Jill,” which is more than content to leave the image of Sandler wrapped in a dress and wig as a punchline. There’s no actual plot, just wide openings for the star to stomp around the frame, squealing delight as Jill discovers the joys of Southern California, attending a Lakers game and partying with a vivacious Mexican family (Eugenio Derbez appears as a gardener who likes to make racially charged jokes for absolutely no reason). If dance parties and Johnny Depp cameos aren’t your thing, perhaps a scene where Jack and Jill have a fight while the latter battles loudly and sloppily with diarrhea is more your speed? 
It’s here where I remind the reader of “Billy Madison” and “Happy Gilmore,” two exquisitely dumb comedies infused with a delirious youthful insanity, making them unpredictable and magnificently daft. Sandler’s too old for that sort of effort these days. Why write a joke when a character can simply break wind? It cuts the workday in half. I suppose the Al Pacino subplot passes for storytelling around these parts, contorting the Shakespeare enthusiast into a wild-eyed horndog position as he attempts to woo Jill, even breaking up a stage performance of “Richard III” to take a cell phone call about the important matter. The venerated actor is game to go wherever Sandler leads (cue more dance parties and cake-based acts of seduction), but it’s a tremendously forced whimsy, concluding with Pacino rapping about donuts, incorporating classic lines from his distinguished career. I’d write that this has to be the lowest point in Al Pacino’s career, but I’ve seen “Righteous Kill.” 
Appearances from the Happy Madison gang are provided (including Nick Swardson, Allen Covert, Peter Dante, and Jonathan Loughran), and the film climaxes with bar fight between David Spade and Sandler, both in drag, natch. Unfortunately, the weak stabs at oddity fail to outweigh the crudeness and depressing emptiness of the endeavor, which truly doesn’t make any sort of discernable effort to entertain. Instead, the picture resorts to playing all the saccharine notes displayed in recent Sandler productions, providing false sincerity, actually asking people to pity Jill and her abandonment issues. She’d be a lot more sympathetic worked into a cohesive story that didn’t feature an extended scene built around a wet bowel movement. Starring: Adam Sandler, Al Pacino, Katie Holmes, Peter Dante, David Spade, Nick Swardson Director: Dennis Dugan » See full cast & crew |
 
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