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Mary Pols, Time: POOR "...made me feel as if comedy itself were a dirty thing... the film contains approximately one minute that is not excruciating." (Read the full review...) 802 words, 11/11/11 Jake Coyle, Associated Press: WEAK (cg) "...unapologetically idiotic... comes off like the last 15 years of comedy didn't happen.... Comedy moved on from the mid-1990s, and it's time Sandler did, too." (Read the full review...) 582 words, 11/10/11 Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: WEAK (cg) "...not not funny. It's just unreliably, haphazardly funny when it's not just obnoxiously sentimental or plain obnoxious." (Read the full review...) 634 words, 11/14/11 Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: POOR (cg) "On a scale of 1 to 10 on the laugh meter, this is a negative 10. A total bust, a stupefyingly unfunny and shamelessly lazy farce packed with cringe-worthy jokes..." (Read the full review...) 334 words, 11/10/11 Scott Bowles, USA Today: POOR (cg) "...has one good joke, four strange cameos and a spirit so juvenile kids may wonder what Sandler's deal is.... what makes it pseudo-watchable is the star lineup..." (Read the full review...) 439 words, 11/11/11 Glenn Kenny, MSN Movies: WEAK (cg) "Pacino brings such unseemly bravado to the film's incoherent send-up of both his image and what's left of his talent that his scenes are stomach-churningly compelling..." (Read the full review...) 580 words, 11/10/11
A.O. Scott, New York Times: POOR "Mr. Sandler, done up in frumpy, bargain-shopper drag as Jill, gives full and relentless voice to the woman-hatred that has always propelled his infantile shtick." (Read the full review...) 615 words, 11/11/11 Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: WEAK (cg) "Steve Koren's script is shamelessly broad and there's nothing amusing about Jill's antics on paper, especially since they tend to land us in or near the closest bathroom." (Read the full review...) 373 words, 11/11/11 Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: WEAK "...feels like an elementary school recess that's gone on too long, the merrymaking strained and the participants looking tired even when they're in full comic dudgeon." (Read the full review...) 498 words, 11/11/11 Lou Lumenick, New York Post: POOR (cg) " 'Is Evel Knievel popping wheelies in there?' Jack asks as his sister loudly drops 'chimichanga bombs.' Those are the jokes, folks." (Read the full review...) 742 words, 11/11/11 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: MODERATE (cg) "...playing a lovelorn version of himself, in love with Adam Sandler in a dress, a lisp and breasts, Al Pacino holds a gun to the head of the comedy and says: I now pronounce you mine." (Read the full review...) 447 words, 11/11/11 Rafer Guzman, New York Newsday: POOR (cg) "Sandler is selling another lemon." (Read the full review...) 311 words, 11/11/11 David Edelstein, New York Magazine: POOR "I don't think all Sandler's comedies warrant shame, but this one is a disgrace." (Read the full review...) 355 words, 11/12/11 Bill Zwecker, Chicago Sun-Times: POOR (cg) "I love silly over-the-top comedies as much as anyone, but only when they are funny! In that department, 'Jack and Jill' fails on every level." (Read the full review...) 496 words, 11/11/11 Nick Schager, Village Voice/LA Weekly: POOR "Al Pacino's self-mockery is delivered with wild-eyed zest, though not enough to overshadow the one-noteness of the shoddy sibling-centric shenanigans..." (Read the full review...) 216 words, 11/16/11 Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: POOR (cg) "Sandler looks bored as Jack, reminding us at every turn that he can't stand his sister, whose lisping bray could strip paint from the side of a battleship." (Read the full review...) 457 words, 11/11/11 Jennie Punter, Toronto Globe & Mail: POOR (cg) "...an unfathomably bizarre story. And it revolves around a performance by Al Pacino in one of the strangest 'actor playing himself' roles in Hollywood history." (Read the full review...) 628 words, 11/11/11 Phil Brown, Toronto Now: POOR (cg) "To say the movie is an uninspired sketch stretched to feature length would be pointless, given that all of Sandler's Happy Madison productions share that quality." (Read the full review...) 226 words, 11/11/11
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: POOR (cg) "...unruly, stupid and sort of funny, in the same way - and to exactly the same extent - that passing gas is funny." (Read the full review...) 633 words, 11/11/11 Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: WEAK (cg) "Even by sloppy Sandler movie standards, this one's a wreck -- fart jokes, potty zingers and pit-stain gags." (Read the full review...) 405 words, 11/11/11 Tom Russo, Boston Globe: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...just isn't all that funny, and the character eases from intolerably abrasive to tolerably dumb only when it is time to shoehorn in the usual nominal life lessons." (Read the full review...) 352 words, 11/11/11 Stephen Whitty, New Jersey Star-Ledger: MODERATE (cg) "It's all pretty unfunny, and leaves you too much time to wonder about other things. Like, how did this sludge ever get a PG rating?" (Read the full review...) 462 words, 11/11/11 Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: MODERATE (cg) "...a strange one, with successful bits and big moments of satisfying comedy, interspersed with long sections that are just annoying." (Read the full review...) 575 words, 11/11/11 Tom Long, Detroit News: POOR (cg) "...makes fun of funny movies. It's all a post-modern joke that the audience is in on. Assumedly. Sandler's been making such junk for 15 years now..." (Read the full review...) 237 words, 11/11/11 Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: POOR (cg) "Sandler forgets that what might have been tolerable in a three-minute 'Saturday Night Live' skit becomes excruciating when stretched to feature-film length." (Read the full review...) 732 words, 11/11/11
Nick Schager, Village Voice/LA Weekly: POOR "Al Pacino's self-mockery is delivered with wild-eyed zest, though not enough to overshadow the one-noteness of the shoddy sibling-centric shenanigans..." (Read the full review...) 216 words, 11/16/11 Katey Rich, Cinema Blend: POOR (cg) "...so bad that you know the people who made it knew better, but simply didn't care enough to fix it.... Stop the madness. Avoid this." (Read the full review...) 640 words, 11/10/11 Brett Michel, Boston Phoenix: POOR (cg) "Sandler has now worked with Oscar winners Jack Nicholson (on 'Anger Management') and Pacino -- what kind of dirt does he have on these once-great stars?" (Read the full review...) 157 words, 11/17/11 Scott Tobias, AV Club: POOR (cg) "What 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." (Read the full review...) 376 words, 11/11/11 Alison Willmore, Movieline: WEAK (cg) "...very strange and threaded through with hostility -- at one point, the colleagues on either side of me leaned in separately to whisper, 'What is happening?' " (Read the full review...) 988 words, 11/10/11 Jaime N. Christley, Slant: POOR (cg) "More bluntly than ever before (and that's saying something), Sandler uses an entire film to let his loyal fans know that he thinks they're all a bunch of stupid assholes." (Read the full review...) 725 words, 11/10/11 Phil Brown, Toronto Now: POOR (cg) "To say the movie is an uninspired sketch stretched to feature length would be pointless, given that all of Sandler's Happy Madison productions share that quality." (Read the full review...) 226 words, 11/11/11 MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher: POOR (cg) "Adam Sandler has willfully fostered a reputation for brainless, heartless, soulless comedy, but even grading on the Sandler curve, this is a vile excuse for a movie." (Read the full review...) 469 words, 02/18/12
A.O. Scott, New York Times: POOR "Mr. Sandler, done up in frumpy, bargain-shopper drag as Jill, gives full and relentless voice to the woman-hatred that has always propelled his infantile shtick." (Read the full review...) 615 words, 11/11/11 Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: WEAK "...feels like an elementary school recess that's gone on too long, the merrymaking strained and the participants looking tired even when they're in full comic dudgeon." (Read the full review...) 498 words, 11/11/11
Andrew Barker, Daily Variety: POOR "...the pic's general stupidity, careless direction and reliance on a single-joke premise that was never really funny to begin with are only the most obvious of its problems." (Read the full review...) 720 words, 11/10/11 David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter: POOR "...witless and sloppily constructed, getting by on fart gags, homeless jokes, Latino stereotypes and that old favorite, explosive chimichanga diarrhea..." (Read the full review...) 739 words, 11/10/11 Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: WEAK "...feels like an elementary school recess that's gone on too long, the merrymaking strained and the participants looking tired even when they're in full comic dudgeon." (Read the full review...) 498 words, 11/11/11 A.O. Scott, New York Times: POOR "Mr. Sandler, done up in frumpy, bargain-shopper drag as Jill, gives full and relentless voice to the woman-hatred that has always propelled his infantile shtick." (Read the full review...) 615 words, 11/11/11
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