Jack and Jill 2011

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Even by sloppy Sandler movie standards, this one's a wreck - fart jokes, potty zingers and pit-stain gags. Read more

Mary F. Pols, TIME Magazine: More than 24 hours has passed since I watched the new Adam Sandler movie Jack and Jill and I am still dead inside. Read more

Jake Coyle, Associated Press: Comedy moved on from the mid-1990s, and it's time Sandler did, too. "Jack and Jill" even gives fart jokes a bad name. Read more

Tom Russo, Boston Globe: The whole drag routine 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 more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Lazy and slapdash, the work of a comedian trusting too much in his own hilariousness. Read more

Glenn Kenny, MSN Movies: It is also typical in that it contains a lot of witless bathroom and ethnic humor... Read more

A.O. Scott, New York Times: I'm sorry to say that this may be Mr. Pacino's most convincing performance in years. Read more

Scott Bowles, USA Today: A comedy that has one good joke, four strange cameos and a spirit so juvenile kids may wonder what Sandler's deal is. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: 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 more

Amy Nicholson, Boxoffice Magazine: If Pacino-on-Sandler action is your trailer's selling point, the movie better be brave enough to have Pacino bend him over. Heck, it's already doing the same to us. Read more

Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Sandler has become a good actor of late, but here he gives over most of his talents to Jill, who is so screechy, needy, and lovelorn that you can hardly blame Jack for wanting to fade into the background. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: The apocalypse starts here. Read more

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Eric D. Snider, Film.com: It is indeed every bit as lousy as it looks. So kudos to the marketing department, I guess. They nailed this one. Read more

David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter: It's an uphill battle for Jack and Jill with this leaky pail of comic swill. Read more

Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: 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 more

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: Left to his own devices, Sandler reverts to his worst, laziest habits. He forgets that what might have been tolerable in a three-minute "Saturday Night Live" skit becomes excruciating when stretched to feature-film length. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: 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 more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: There are moments in "Jack and Jill" that are genuinely funny - and, just like countless family reunions, there are moments when you can't wait for it to end. Read more

Lou Lumenick, New York Post: It's pretty sad if you're a comic and Al Pacino is the funniest thing in your movie. Read more

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: Jack and Jill is total bust, a stupefyingly unfunny and shamelessly lazy farce packed with cringe-worthy jokes and overt product placement. Read more

Jennie Punter, Globe and Mail: It's cruel and creepy, not funny. Read more

Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: But no, Jack has to be an abrasive jerk to his sister so that, in the final act, he can learn his lesson and embrace his twin and blah blah blah fart joke. Read more

Matt Singer, Time Out: Totally mediocre... Read more

Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: Extruded from Sandler's Happy Madison filmic laugh factory, Jack and Jill makes lowbrow seem like grand opera, relying once again on fart, poop and sweat jokes to inject both yuks and yucks into the proceedings. Read more

Andrew Barker, Variety: 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 more

Nick Schager, Village Voice: Al Pacino romantically pursuing a cross-dressing Adam Sandler around a medieval castle should be stunningly surreal, so it's a not-inconsiderable failure that Jack and Jill manages only dim, desperate outrageousness instead. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: It is what it is - and, more importantly, exactly what Happy Madison fans want it to be: something unruly, stupid and sort of funny, in the same way - and to exactly the same extent - that passing gas is funny. Read more