Adam Sandler is a genius.
After frustrating critics for years via lazy comedies like “Billy Madison,” “Little Nicky” and “Just Go With It,” Sandler unleashes a faux trailer for a project that corroborates every scathing syllable written about him.
It is a gag, right? There’s no way he’s really starring in a movie where he plays his own twin sister who gets hit on by Al Pacino playing Al Pacino?
Oh.
Here’s the official synopsis for “Jack and Jill,” slated to hit theaters Nov. 11, 2011:
Jack and Jill is a comedy focusing on Jack Sadelstein (Adam Sandler), a successful advertising executive in Los Angeles with a beautiful wife and kids, who dreads one event each year: the Thanksgiving visit of his identical twin sister Jill (also Adam Sandler). Jill’s neediness and passive-aggressiveness is maddening to Jack, turning his normally tranquil life upside down. Katie Holmes plays Erin, Jack’s wife.
Suffice to say film bloggers are apoplectic about the trailer alone.
Here’s Movieline trying to process the news:
I don’t even know what to write, beyond fragments: Al Pacino. As himself. Adam Sandler. As a woman.
The fine folks at FilmJunk.com didn’t mince words:
Well I think it’s official… Adam Sandler has finally hit rock bottom
New York Magazine plays the “Norbit” card … ouch!
It’s become common practice in Oscar prognosticating to refer to something as a “Norbit” — that is, a bad movie on the horizon that could sink an Oscar nominee’s chances, so named for the comedy that allegedly sullied Eddie Murphy’s chances to take home an Academy Award for “Dreamgirls.” Now, though, Adam Sandler has his own “Norbit,” and it’s not because there’s a threat to his Oscar potential … it’s because his new movie is basically a flat-out remake of “Norbit.”
Audiences will judge for themselves later this year. Sandler still puts fannies in the seats like few of his peers, and even a calamitous trailer likely won’t stop “Jack and Jill” from cashing a $100 million dollar box office check.
(Photo: Adam Sandler with daughter Sunny Sandler at the “Just Go With It”/Adam Sandler Hollywood Walk of Fame Star Ceremony earlier this year. PHOTO BY: SPE, Inc./Eric Charbonneau)
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I rented (Netflix…a banner advertiser on WhatWouldTotoWatch.com so don’t give me grief) “Little Nicky”. That DRECK should have been used as torture for terrorists at Gitmo.
“Just Go With It” is pure and total crud (keeping it PG here, folks).
I am done with Sandler…”Zookeeper” is his last chance with me. I expect kiddie fare. Any “Methane Gas emission” jokes beyond ONE and I am over anything this guy does.
We are a long way from “Wedding Singer”. Show me the money, honey.
My wife and I settled in for a movie night recently. The film? “Just Go With It.”
We stared at the screen slack jawed. Beyond awful. Sandler has talent, money, fame and power. And by all accounts he’s a nice fellow. He really should be pushing himself harder to make better movies.
Sandler gets some laughs voicing one of the monkeys in “Zookeeper.”
If I didn’t know better, I’d swear Sandler saw that fake Jack Black trailer from “Tropic Thunder” and decided it would make a great full length feature film.
Looks like we’ve got an early front runner for the next Razzies ceremony.
His films are starting to get closer and closer to those fake-bad movies his character made in “Funny People”.
To paraphrase “South Park”:
“Adam Sandler derp de derp. Derp de derpity derpie derp. Until one day, a-derp a-derp a-derp a-derp. Derp de derp, de tittaly tum. From the creators of “DER” and “TUM TA TITTALY TUM TA TOO”, Adam Sandler is: “DA DERP DEE DERP DA TEETLEY DERPEE DERPEE DUMB.” Rated PG-13.”
All the effort and care that went into crafting this film can be summed up in the fact that the flack who wrote the official synopsis doesn’t know that a man cannot have an IDENTICAL twin SISTER.