
Jack Sadelstein is a successful advertising executive in Los Angeles, with a beautiful wife and kids, who dreads one event each year--the Thanksgiving visit of his fraternal twin sister, Jill. Jill's neediness and passive-aggressiveness is maddening to Jack, turning his normally tranquil life upside down.... (Full plot summary below)
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Jack Sadelstein is a successful advertising executive in Los Angeles, with a beautiful wife and kids, who dreads one event each year--the Thanksgiving visit of his fraternal twin sister, Jill. Jill's neediness and passive-aggressiveness is maddening to Jack, turning his normally tranquil life upside down.
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| BrianOrndorf.comBrian OrndorfI'm not even sure this qualifies as a real movie. |
| Reel Times: Reflections on CinemaMark PfeifferJack and Jill's lack of energy disguises contempt, but here [Sandler's] working through his issues in a more compelling way than usual. |
| Metro Times (Detroit, MI)Corey HallKatie Holmes, on a rare furlough outside the Scientology Celebrity Center, mostly stands around and looks confused - maybe she caught a peek at the script? |
| Boston HeraldJames VerniereGuess what's playing in movie critic hell? |
| AV ClubScott TobiasWhat 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. |
| Boxoffice MagazineAmy NicholsonJack 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. |
| Film.comEric D. SniderIt is indeed every bit as lousy as it looks. So kudos to the marketing department, I guess. They nailed this one. |
| BET.comClay CaneIf there was a drag queen pageant and Mrs. Doubtfire, Noxeema Jackson, Madea and Jill had to compete (even the name, Jill, is bland), Miss Jill would get the axe before she graced the runway. |
| Film Journal InternationalDoris ToumarkineAdam Sandler playing both an ambitious ad guy and his loser female twin is a brazen high concept that provides mostly comedic lows. But Sandler fans may welcome the brainless diversion. |
| E! OnlinePeter ParasIt plays out as lame as you might think with the dude version being Sandler in "angry" mode and the sister nothing more than a collection of obnoxious traits. |