Lets not beat around the bush. This movie is fucking terrible. It's a horrendous miscalculation on pretty much every level and it's fundamentally unenjoyable. The audience's sympathy does not lie with obscenely wealthy everyman Jack (Adam Sandler) or his anti-Semitic caricature of a twin sister Jill (Adam Sandler again); the audience's sympathy lies with the audience.
There is an early dinner scene that seems endless, there is an endless parade of under/misused cameos from Sandler's former Saturday Night Live co-stars and various celebrities, and there is an endless deluge of product placement that makes you realize how much product placement Sandler movies have in general.
I got a bunch of 'why' questions. Why are there so many CGI animals in this movie? Why does Sandler mock Nick Swardson for being an atheist? I didn't even know you could mention atheism in a movie, let alone a PG rated one. I bet this movie made him an atheist. Why is Katie Holmes in this? Why is everything so loud? I guess they wanted to make sure that people could hear all the jokes over the sound of their own uproarious laughter and thunderous applause.
This film is also full of shit. Adam Sandler films a terrible commercial with Al Pacino and we get it to see it at the end of the film. It's awful. It has rapping. It has... It's fucking awful. Then when it's over, Pacino starts solemnly insisting that the commercial "must never see the light of day." Ha ha, get it? Because it's so shitty. But... You just made us watch it. It was essentially the ultimate joke of your 80 million dollar movie. You're having your cake and eating it too, you fucks!
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| Even they don't like the movie. |
~ Adam Sandler famously featured Bob Barker in Happy Gilmore and this film features a much less funny cameo from current The Price Is Right host Drew Carey; man, Adam Sandler must love that show even more than I do.
~ A man's twin sister moves in with him, wrecking havoc in his professional and personal life and driving him to homicidal madness. This sounds less like the plot of a family comedy and more the plot of a giallo.
~ Jill's voice sounds pretty familiar if you've ever listened to any of Adam Sandler's comedy albums.
~ In one of Al Pacino's scene Jill manages to destroy his Academy Award statuette; "what an apt metaphor" I cried out.
~ This movie features such poor scene transitions and haphazard editing that it appears to take place in Los Angeles, The Bronx, a cruise ship and Majorca simultaneously.
~ If you stare unblinkingly at the poster for thirty seconds your brain will force you to laugh in order to keep the madness from taking hold. Try it.
~ Happy Christmas.
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