Jack and Jill
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: November 11, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
23
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 26 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
8
Negative:
17
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
63
Boston GlobeTom RussoNov 10, 2011
What's more genuinely wacky is what a kick the movie can sometimes be, completely in spite of its big, flat stunt. Read full review
58
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerNov 12, 2011
Adam Sandler plays a dual role in Jack and Jill, and he's a lot better as Jill than as Jack. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsNov 11, 2011
It's not much to hijack. But 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 Jack and Jill and says: I now pronounce you mine. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleNov 10, 2011
Though the Jill problem is too insurmountable to ignore, almost everything else in this comedy succeeds. Read full review
40
Time OutMatt SingerNov 11, 2011
The film is merely a series of random celebrity cameos and shameless product placements. (In one case, both-thank you, Jared from Subway!) But there are a few moments of inspired absurdity, mostly provided by a surprisingly energetic Al Pacino. Read full review
40
VarietyAndrew BarkerNov 10, 2011
Yet the picture'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 full review
40
Boxoffice MagazineAmy NicholsonNov 10, 2011
Jack and Jill is a barrage of fart jokes and fat jokes and mean jokes that sincerely thinks it deserves to end with a hug. It doesn't deserve awwwws - and it doesn't deserve your money. Read full review
40
MovielineAlison WillmoreNov 10, 2011
It's as if, after years of playing characters with temper issues, Sandler has finally let some of that repressed rage leak out toward the audience. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNov 10, 2011
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 full review
38
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottNov 11, 2011
But Jack and Jill? Oh, Al. Read full review
38
Orlando SentinelRoger MooreNov 10, 2011
Then there's Pacino, out-of-place and yet somehow right at home. You want big? Al does BIG. And since is as close as we're likely to get to "Don Corleone Does Don Quixote," that alone is worth the price of admission. Read full review
33
Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumNov 11, 2011
In one form or another, you get exactly what you pay for at an Adam Sandler comedy. Otherwise the man wouldn't have earned zillions. Read full review
30
Village VoiceNick SchagerNov 10, 2011
It's a dull drag-show routine headed nowhere until Pacino (playing a self-important version of himself) begins stalking Jill. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleNov 10, 2011
In the wake of "Bridesmaids," Sandler's lipsticked tomfoolery - and inability to share the screen with genuinely funny women - feels particularly regressive and stale. Both movies have diarrhea gags, but only one feels defined by such humor. Read full review
30
The New York TimesA.O. ScottNov 10, 2011
There are a few funny moments in Jack and Jill, most of them celebrity cameos that also serve to affirm what a cool, connected celebrity Mr. Sandler is. The most sustained of these is the appearance of Al Pacino as himself, falling for Jill and giving the film a jolt of genuine zaniness. I'm sorry to say that this may be Mr. Pacino's most convincing performance in years. Read full review
25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jennie PunterNov 10, 2011
A noxious PG comedy starring Adam Sandler as a pair of middle-aged male-female twins that should have been separated at birth to spare us from this movie. Read full review
25
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanNov 10, 2011
The unapologetic laziness and ineptitude of Jack's impersonation, which is played for cheap laughs, is just as lazy as Sandler's performance as the real Jill. You don't buy it for a minute. Read full review
25
Miami HeraldRene RodriguezNov 10, 2011
Jack and Jill contains long stretches of squirm-inducing tedium in which Sandler riffs and ad-libs far longer than he should. Read full review
20
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyNov 10, 2011
Jack and Jill is witless and sloppily constructed, getting by on fart gags, homeless jokes, Latino stereotypes and that old favorite, explosive chimichanga diarrhea -- and no, not in an inspired "Bridesmaids" way. Read full review
16
The A.V. ClubScott TobiasNov 12, 2011
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 full review
12
USA TodayScott BowlesNov 10, 2011
A comedy that has one good joke, four strange cameos and a spirit so juvenile kids may wonder what Sandler's deal is. Read full review
12
Slant MagazineJaime N. ChristleyNov 10, 2011
If the result is a movie that seems like a much slicker, more condensed, and speedier version of the Sandler comedies that have guaranteed his grandkids' retirement, count it as a blessing that it's over quickly. Not without pain, but quickly. Read full review
11
Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovNov 16, 2011
I'm not sure which is more freakish: the fact that this savagely unfun and relentlessly generic Adam Sandler comedy has spawned its own (infinitely more entertaining) Internet meme or the realization that something has gone seriously awry with the decision-making process of Al Pacino's agent. Read full review
0
New York PostLou LumenickNov 11, 2011
It's pretty sad if you're a comic and Al Pacino is the funniest thing in your movie. Read full review
0
TimeMary PolsNov 10, 2011
More than 24 hours has passed since I watched the new Adam Sandler movie Jack and Jill and I am still dead inside. It made me feel as if comedy itself were a dirty thing. Read full review
0
Rolling StonePeter TraversNov 10, 2011
A total bust, a stupefyingly unfunny and shamelessly lazy farce packed with cringe-worthy jokes and overt product placement. Read full review
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