Jack and Jill

DIRECTOR: Dennis Dugan

CAST: Adam Sandler, Katie Holmes, Al Pacino

CLASSIFICATION: PG

RUNNING TIME: 83 minutes

RATING: *

Oh, yes, people, the moment you were waiting for has arrived. Be still your beating heart, because it’s Adam Sandler in a dress.

And that is really the gist of his latest offering.

Sandler plays Jack, a Hollywood advertising executive who needs to land a big account. When his passive-aggressive twin sister, Jill (Sandler again) visits, he uses her to land said account, which you can already pick up from the trailer.

What you don’t pick up is how badly, even by Sandler’s standards, this film fails to elicit laughter. His usual fare is aimed at kids who love fart jokes and he usually gets them laughing, but this just doesn’t work.

Sandler is boring as Jack and adds nothing by putting on a dress as Jill. The jokes at Jill’s expense are mean and the jokes about Jack’s adopted Indian son would be offensive if they weren’t so lame.

Katie Holmes stands in the corner of every second scene, looking a bit bewildered, and Johnny Depp puts in a random appearance as himself.

The one-star rating for this film, though, has to be awarded to Al Pacino for the most ridiculously OTT send-up of himself. It could even be misconstrued as a reason to watch this drek. Pacino plays himself wigging out in spectacular fashion while on stage doing Richard III and then takes the joke further. How Sandler ever got him to do this, is… there must have been a lot of money on the table.

This ghastly parody of a comedy is not helping the cause of Adam Sandler to be considered a comedian.

If you liked… Grandma’s Boy… you will like this.

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