Adam Sandler as Jack and Jill.

Adam Sandler gathers the usual suspects for this Happy Madison Production.  Jack and Jill is filled with familiar faces often featured in his movies.   It also contains the usual bathroom humor and juvenile jokes.  Last but not least is a dose of sentimental family togetherness that have become ever present in Sandler's movies. Everything you would expect from a Sandler holiday film.

Jack and Jill are 41 year old twins living on opposite coasts.  Jack lives in Los Angeles working as a successful ad man.  Jill lives in the Bronx where she lived with and took care of their recently deceased mother.  Jack is married with two children, while Jill is only a couple of cats shy of spinsterhood.  She already has a bird she talks to.

Jill comes to LA for Thanksgiving but ends up staying through New Years.  She is loud, sweaty and obnoxious.  Most of all, she is lonely.  In one of the weakest aspects of the script, her mere presence bothers Jack tremendously.  She asks if he has gained weight, embarrasses a homeless man invited for dinner and is naive to anything computer related.   Nothing truly horrible, but Jack spends most of the film trying to get her to go back to New York.

At work, Jack has a very important account with Duncan Donuts that he may lose if he cannot get Al Pacino to do some commercials for their new drink.  Things take an odd turn when Al Pacino falls for Jill after they meet at a Lakers game.  Pacino is sitting next to Johnny Depp sporting a Justin Bieber t-shirt.  Jill thinks he is a member of Duran Duran.

Pacino makes like Neal Patrick Harris in the Harold and Kumar films spoofing himself by playing himself, only made up.  You know what I mean!  Known for his highly dramatic roles, it is odd seeing Pacino in such a ridiculous part.  I think his performance will either make or break this film for a lot of fans.  The final scene in the film surprised me the most.  If you are at all a Pacino fan, you have to see it.

Jack and Jill has some funny moments and some not so funny ones.  Jack's son likes to tape things to his body.  This causes a huge laugh during the Thanksgiving dinner scene, but at other times it just seems odd.  Much is made of Jill being masculine and large.  She kills a horse after sitting on it.  A guy looks up her skirt as he thinks she is a man.  She out lifts some body builders.  The biggest laugh in the entire movie comes courtesy of a bathroom attendant, Adam Sandler, two melons and some anticipation. 

Jack and Jill, like most Happy Madison productions, is harmless family fun.  It often employs grammar school humor, such as when Jill eats some Mexican food and has to race to a bathroom.  However, it is also very pro-family.  Sandler's movies are like a bologna and cheese sandwich on white bread.  They are generic, everyone can stomach them and your not going to crave one again any time soon.   

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