A new Adam Sandler comedy is headed to the big screen and Sandler will be starring with his favourite star. Himself.
Jack and Jill is a comedy focusing on Jack Sadelstein (Adam Sandler), 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 (Adam Sandler). Jill’s neediness and passive-aggressiveness is maddening to Jack, turning his normally tranquil life upside down.
Of course this formulaic family comedy will inevitably have Jack and Jill form a closer bond and Jack will go from hating his sister’s visits to missing her when she is gone.
I have always liked Sandler’s comedy, but this just feels like a desperate Eddie Murphy Krumps move. I have yet to see any comedy where someone plays the part of their own family member work.
Ok, maybe Back to the Future. But that’s totally different.
This trailer shows a lot of the one liners (the last one is great) and I predict the ending already. But honestly, I think I have seen all I want to from this already.
Wished they would dub Jill’s voice with an actual female. Sounds like Adam is trying too hard. Don’t think I can stand hearing that for 90+ minutes since I couldn’t stand it for 2 1/2.
Pass
His movies usually turn out to be better than they first appeared (for me anyway). I liked Zohan or whatever it was when I FINALLY got around to it, and Little Nicky and all his other weird departures. They’re fun, mindless comedies. The only one that didn’t live up to the hype for me was Grown Ups, all those comedians in one place and so little comedy…he should have pushed it through when Chris Farley was alive like he intended. That same movie, but done back then, would have been a bit funnier I think.
Anyways, I like all of his stuff but sometimes wish he would do another movie or two in the same vein of Happy Gilmore or Billy Madison. Where the absurdity came from circumstance and characters, not so heavily from CG-sight gags.
I think the people that say they loved his old work but think this looks stupid need to really go back and listen to his albums and stand up comedy. All it really is is this movie. I laugh at it, and might even end up renting this one from Netflix.
His bread and butter is dick and fart jokes. This is just more of that. I think people complaining about how this looks like the fake trailers from Funny People need to realize that those fake trailers are probably what he would love to do.
I’m sorry but I gotta say this. Does this movie look bad? maybe. But do we really need to condemn the guy to hell because of one bad movie?? I mean even he has had a couple bad films, the good still heavily outweigh the bad. Eddie Murphy has had bad movie after bad movie and clearly doesn’t give a rats ass anymore as long as he can collect that paycheck. But Sandler creates almost all his movies from scratch with the help of close friends. If the guy makes a couple “bad” movies along the way, so what? Name ONE actor, director or producer who hasn’t had at least one or two bad eggs along the way. Name ONE! Even Spielberg has had at least one. Jesus! Chill out. If you are movie fans, try having some respect for those who have truly contributed in a big way to the industry.
Perhaps you chill out? Who’s condemning this guy. I said I like him but this doesn’t look good.
Exhale.
“Name ONE actor, director”….
Let me stop you right there.
Christopher Nolan
Oh.
Katie Holmes + Adam Sandler = Indian kid
Sandmans always good for some decent chuckles, (even liked lil’ nickey)
this seems odd for him, with the whole in-drag, and he’s basically using his “Mista mista” lady character from his albums.
But he gets a free pass from me.
he’s basically doing a film that he normally gives to another one of his buddies to do (Rob,Allen Covert, etc.)
still looks better than ANY Kevin James film released to date. IMO
trailers weak and a little weird…Just like Al Pachino
I’m having a hard time distinguishing this trailer from other fake one’s in films which make fun of bad trailers for bad movies. This looks absolutely horrible in so many aspects. I used to have respect for Adam Sandler, since he’s starred in relatively good films and I enjoy watching him as an actor, but this might definitely turn him into the next Eddie Murphie.
I too have always been an Adam Sandler fan, but this seems like a straight to DVD feature. I will pass on this one.
This looks like one of the fake trailers from Funny People, except thouse trailers looked much funnier.