Review of Jack and Jill (2011) by Thomas C — 12 Jun 2013

You know, I honestly when watching this, had so many good, legitimate questions throughout the narrative (however little there was). Now, Adam Sandler as Jack started off actually somewhat funny, being somewhat level headed and responded in a funny, but somehow realistic way.

Then it all falls downhill quickly, as he loses that, and becomes just a boring, kind awful person in the film. Jill on the other hand is just constantly annoying, I'm fine with annoying characters in comedies, but it can never go too overboard if it wants to be funny, which Sandler does, as Jill is just way too annoying and stupid to possibly exist in an even remotely realistic world.

Then we get to Al Pacino, who is obviously just in it for the paycheck, but it really just gets boring, and even a bit annoying. Pacino is just really dull, and phoning his performance in, but is unfortunately the focus of the film.

There are also some other famous bad movie sequences, like bad and/or pointless cameos (including Shaq and the Sham-Wow guy), really dumb race-related humor which is just really unfunny, fart jokes, etc.

It's a generic bad film, but is mostly just annoying. Once in a long, LONG while something funny will come up, but there are so many plotholes and impossible situations that the film is equally confusing, just as much as it is annoying.

It's a subtle awfulness, where on the surface, you don't walk out hating it exactly, but when you think about how many flaws you had with you, you realize how awful you realize it actually was.

And in a film where the thesis seems to be "Al Pacino exists and Mexicans cross the border", can you really expect anything even slightly good?