Most People’s Rating: ♥♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡

My Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♡♡♡

 

If You Liked This Movie, You’d Like: 50 First Dates, Just Go With It, Grown Ups, Blended, or any other Adam Sandler movie (besides Click which I don’t find good)

My next movie selection is Jack and Jill starring Adam Sandler. For whatever reason, movie critics love to hate on this movie. A lot of times, this movie is deemed one of the worst of the 2010s. I would like to argue otherwise.

Here’s a quick summary of the movie. Jack works as an advertiser and wants Al Pacino to star in one of his commercials. Jill is Jack’s rather odd twin sister. She is loud, unaccustomed to social norms, and just really unique. Jack attempts to use his sister to get Al Pacino to star in his commercial.

The plot sounds cheesy, and trust me, it is. One thing that makes this film a little quirky is Adam Sandler plays both Jack and Jill. Al Pacino is also a strange choice of actor in this movie, but I just kind of rolled with it.

I love Adam Sandler, personally. I don’t know many movies of his that I don’t like. His acting skill is truly amazing. It is extremely difficult to play both main characters in a movie. Only great actors such as Jesse Eisenberg (The Double), Eddie Murphy (The Nutty Professor), and Nicolas Cage (Adaptation) are able to complete such a daring role.

Also, if you need a little extra motivation to watch this movie, Johnny Depp makes a surprise entrance.

 

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So, if you’ve seen this movie, there’s a good chance you hated it, and have lost respect of my movie picking skills. But I truly believe this movie has such a good message that it deserves better than its embarrassingly low rating.

Al Pacino, shockingly, falls in love with loud, crazy, unique Jill. And most people will find her annoying. But Al doesn’t. When Jack asks what he sees in her, he says this: He says that Jill has watched as her brother has gotten everything. And even though she has never gotten the same things as her brother, she chooses to be happy and love him regardless. It takes a very strong and loving person to be like this, and I admire that in Jill. Jill is never overcome with sadness, jealousy, envy, or hate.

This movie grooms you to like Jack more than Jill. It makes you think Jill is needy and annoying and embarrassing for Jack. But at the end of the movie, the director slaps you in the face by making you realize how shallow you were thinking about Jill. Jill is never anything but kind in the movie. She loves her family more than anything. And most importantly, she is never afraid to be herself. Society tells you to be yourself, but then judges you when you do so. Jill is an amazing person who puts others before herself, and is a much better person than Jack in the end.

This movie teaches you about family. Jack and Jill’s odd, yet funny conversation in their made-up language towards the end of the movie is one of the best scenes. It proves that family always comes first.

And of course, who doesn’t love the last scene of the movie where Jill finds true love. ♡

So, maybe I’ve changed your mind about this movie. But if the cheese is just too much for you, I understand.