This week I subjected myself to
watching Jack and Jill as my “comedy” movie. I think it may have been one of
the worst decisions I have ever made. I could not sit through the whole movie
so I watched it over around 3 sessions and skipped through a couple long scenes.
It’s actually impressive how bad the movie was, I guarantee I will enjoy the “bad
movie” category more in terms of objective film quality because I’ll be able to
ironically enjoy it, whereas Jack and Jill was so brain dead and just bad that I
was unable to enjoy it even ironically.
To be
honest I really didn’t pay much attention to camera angles, but there is no
artistic value in a movie like this so I think any sort of establishing shot or
advanced camera techniques might have actually just been an accident. To put this in
perspective, when I’m watching a good movie that has long shots, I’m so
engrossed in the dialogue and what’s happening that I don’t notice the length
of the shot except for when the movie is trying to create tension or
dissonance, and even then, that's the effect the movie is going for. In this movie, even short dialogue cuts still felt too long.
I can’t
conceive of why Adam Sandler thought this was a good idea unless he was
ironically making a really bad movie just to mess with people or maybe as a
social experiment to see how much the media can convince people to spend money
on something objectively bad. Al Pacino and Johnny Depp are in this movie also,
for some reason. I can’t put a finger on why but it might have been just as a
joke because they’re actually good actors.
The
character of Jill is perhaps the most obnoxious thing I’ve ever witnessed, and
it’s on purpose. The movie makes her out to be a really obnoxious, dumb girl
and it accomplishes this even beyond the frame of the movie. This may be the only good
thing the movie does, but it wildly succeeds in this regard. There’s one scene
that plays out a fart joke for like 10 minutes, which is the absolute lowest
point of comedy, and has been so far surpassed that it’s completely not funny
anymore in any context whatsoever. That’s not even the only time it’s used either.
There are multiple fart jokes throughout the movie.
To make
things worse, there’s also lazy stereotype jokes. In a segment where Al Pacino
invites Jill to a picnic, there’s an old Mexican woman straight up eating
peppers, and when she gets inevitably injured by the stupid and clumsy Jill, a
swarm of Mexicans rush forward and start feeding her more peppers as if that
cures pain or something.
My
experience with the movie could be summed up with a scene from the movie
itself, actually. At the end, when Al Pacino has seen the terrible dunkin
donuts commercial he stars in, he orders Jack to burn and destroy all copies
and everything related to the commercial. That’s what I feel should have been
done with this movie.
Reasons for
not watching this movie: It’s insulting to anyone intelligent, it’s lazy and
racist, it has Adam Sandler in it twice, cross-dressing twice, the plot and
scenarios are just plain asinine and there is no value or anything to be taken
away from the movie.
Reasons for
watching the movie: You’re a masochist, performing torture on somebody, got
shot or seriously injured and need to distract yourself with something worse
My rating:
Watching Jack and Jill is like having a medical condition where drinking water
gives you 24 hour hangovers.
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