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"&lt;p&gt;Maybe you thought since Adam Sandler is playing boy-and-girl twins in &lt;em&gt;Jack and Jill&lt;/em&gt; that the movie would be double the fun. Ha! On a scale of 1 to 10 on the laugh meter, Jack and Jill is a negative 10. A total bust, a stupefyingly unfunny and shamelessly lazy farce packed with cringe-worthy jokes and overt product placement. L.A. ad exec Jack Sadelstein (Sandler the guy) is gritting his teeth over a holiday visit from his loudmouthed, overweight twin Jill (Sandler in drag, showing an unfailing grasp of the obvious). The siblings pick at each other relentlessly between Jill&amp;apos;s bouts with farting and dropping chimichanga bombs. No peace, even with the help of Jack&amp;apos;s peacemaker wife (Katie Holmes looks so trapped in this thankless role you ache to save her). It&amp;apos;s odious to watch the movie make fun of Jill&amp;apos;s looks, weight, and flatulence problems only to switch gears into gooey sentiment at the end and tell us we should love her. &lt;em&gt;Jack and Jill&lt;/em&gt; wants to have its hypocrisy and eat it too.&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;wm:embed type=\"related\"&gt;&lt;/wm:embed&gt;&lt;p&gt;Look, I&amp;apos;m not a Sandler hater. He was terrific in Judd Apatow&amp;apos;s &lt;a href=\"../../../movies/reviews/funny-people-20090730\"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Funny People&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and Paul Thomas Anderson&amp;apos;s&lt;a href=\"../../../movies/reviews/punch-drunk-love-20021008\"&gt; &lt;em&gt;Punch-Drunk Love&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. And I still treasure fun memories of &lt;em&gt;Billy Madison&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Happy Gilmore&lt;/em&gt;, made before Sandler turned cynical and contemptuous of his audience. &lt;em&gt;Jack and Jill&lt;/em&gt; plays like the kind of crap Sandler&amp;apos;s comedian character skewered in &lt;em&gt;Funny People&lt;/em&gt;. The plot is a stew of half-baked ideas that quickly turns rancid. Jack has problems at work; his company will go under if he can&amp;apos;t persuade Al Pacino to play himself in a Dunkin&amp;apos; Donuts commercial. Watching the Oscar winner bust a move and freestyle rap while he extols the virtues of sipping a&amp;#xA0;Dunkachinno is to witness desperation incarnate. Sandler and director Dennis Dugan must have something on The Godfather to make him lower himself to these depths. &amp;quot;Burn it,&amp;quot; says Pacino after watching the commercial Sandler creates. &amp;quot;No one must ever see this.&amp;quot; The same goes for the movie.&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;#x2022; &lt;a href=\"../../../movies/blogs/the-travers-take/adam-sandlers-jack-and-jill-is-stupefyingly-awful-and-unfunny-20111110\"&gt;At the Movies with Peter Travers: Adam Sandler&amp;apos;s &amp;apos;Jack and Jill&amp;apos; is Stupefyingly Awful and Unfunny&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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