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.
A step up from Grown Ups – but that’s hardly saying much – Sandler’s brash, unpretentious and unsubtle family comedy might be more enjoyable if it wasn’t so mean.
Sandler in a dress is not the weirdest thing here. That would be Al Pacino playing Al Pacino.
After viewing the commercial they’ve made, Pacino mutters ‘Burn this, no one must see it,’ inadvertently providing the only moment of truth is this gross, witless farrago.
A turkey each for Jack and Jill.
There is a type of film so bad that it is actually scary, like seeing those mawkish photographs of sweet little children in Victorian Britain dressed up as angels and realising after a few moments that they are corpses. Adam Sandler's new comedy Jack and Jill is such a film.
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