Jack and Jill (I) (2011)

Family guy Jack Sadelstein prepares for the annual event he dreads: the Thanksgiving visit of his twin sister, the needy and passive-aggressive Jill, who then refuses to leave.

Director:

Dennis Dugan

Writers:

Steve Koren (screenplay), Adam Sandler (screenplay),

Stars:

Adam Sandler, Al Pacino, Katie Holmes

12 wins & 2 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Adam Sandler	...	Jack Sadelstein / Jill Sadelstein
Al Pacino	...	Himself
Katie Holmes	...	Erin Sadelstein
Elodie Tougne	...	Sofia Sadelstein
Rohan Chand	...	Gary Sadelstein
Eugenio Derbez	...	Felipe / Felipe's Grandma
David Spade	...	Monica
Nick Swardson	...	Todd
Tim Meadows	...	Ted
Allen Covert	...	Otto
Norm MacDonald	...	Funbucket
Geoff Pierson	...	Carter Simmons
Valerie Mahaffey	...	Bitsy Simmons
Gary Valentine	...	Dallas
Dana Carvey	...	Scrapply Puppeteer

Storyline

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 identical twin sister Jill. Jill's neediness and passive-aggressiveness is maddening to Jack, turning his normally tranquil life upside down.

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Plot Keywords:

critically bashed | los angeles california | actor playing female role | scene after end credits | twin brother and sister | 

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Taglines:

His sister is coming for a visit... ...and it ain't pretty.

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Genres:

Comedy

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG for crude material including suggestive references, language and comic violence

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

11 November 2011 (USA)

Also Known As:

The Weird Personality

Filming Locations:

Allure of the Seas

Box Office

Budget:

$79,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$25,003,575 (USA) (11 November 2011)

Gross:

$74,158,157 (USA) (24 February 2012)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Columbia Pictures, Happy Madison Productions, Broken Road Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

91 min

Sound Mix:

SDDS Datasat Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Was originally rated PG by the MPAA for "crude and sexual humor, language, comic violence and brief smoking" but was amended to "crude material including suggestive references, language and comic violence."

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Goofs

'The Allure of the Seas' never cruises in Europe. It only takes cruisers to the eastern and western Caribbean.

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Quotes

Jill Sadelstein: [after breaking his Oscar] Oh, my God! I'm so sorry! I am sure you have others, though.
Al Pacino: Uh, you'd think it, but, uh, oddly enough, I don't.

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Crazy Credits

After the credits, one member of the previously shown twins conducts a sight gag. He 'inflates' his stomach to a noticeably larger size. He than pantomimes using a large pin to 'pop' his stomach, deflating it to normal size.

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Connections

Featured in The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Episode #20.25 (2011)

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Soundtracks

"Shut Up and Let Me Go"
Written by Jules De Martino and Katie White
Performed by The Ting Tings

User Reviews

Terrible. The trailer is the highlights.

The standard that Adam Sandler movies has set is pretty low, but even with such low expectations going to the movie, the movie still felt terrible. The gag is twins and ignoring that healthy identical twins with different genders is impossible, we get to see Adam Sandler dress up as a woman. And, we get to see Adam Sandler dress up as a woman a lot, ridiculously lot and so much so, that Jack Adam Sandler and the rest of the cast are just supporting actors to the almighty squawking of Jill Adam Sandler.

We could say this is just Adam Sandler up to his usual antics but Jill Adam Sandler hogs up the screen time and nothing about her really makes any sort of logical sense. There is Al Pacino as himself who falls for Jill, a possibility that the writers explain away as madness or nervous breakdown of Al Pacino. Then, there is Jill who is loved by the kids and Jack's wife Erin (played by Katie Holmes) for reasons that Jill doesn't portray on screen and we are never shown, all we are shown is the mean and manipulative Jill. The Jill that Adam Sandler portrays is his own immature rendition of a woman, filled with toilet humor and displays of uncharacteristic skills and strength as positive attributes. Jill is portrayed uninteresting and vacuous though written differently, and that being the center of the movie makes the movie uninteresting and tiresome.

The movie would have been an acceptable Sandler movie if Jill had been played by a woman who could actually portray a big heart. The previous Sandler movies were enjoyable movies, but Jack and Jill is a real stinker, barely watchable. The only thing I found interesting was the background opulence of everyone around, thrown around so casually that it really feels like the big guys involved in the movie have severely lost touch with their audience and given way to sloth where they think anything they do is magical. Avoid the movie.