No one expected it to be good, but I gotta say, I didn't think Jack and Jill would incite a line like "More than 24 hours has passed since I watched the new Adam Sandler movie, Jack and Jill, and I am still dead inside" from so august a source as Mary F. Pois of TIME. Oh, who am I kidding. As soon as I saw posters of Adam Sandler in drag being plastered onto NYC subway-station walls, I knew a critical shitstorm was a'brewin'.

But, this just in: the forty-ninth review of the movie has driven its Rotten Tomatoes rating from 0% to 2%. I'm not sure what's more shocking: that it remained at 0% after so many, or that one person found something redeeming in it. I mean, it's got to be pretty terrible if Gigli has five percent on it.

The Daily Beast's Ramin Setoodeh and Rolling Stone film critic Peter Travers are suggesting that Jack and Jill might be the worst movie ever made. But the question for Adam Sandler is, if you have clearly depleted what little you had left in your humor reserve, what's better: to slip away quietly or become an unabashed parody of yourself? I guess Sandler has chosen the latter. His last hope is that Jack and Jill will join the so-bad-they're-good ranks of movies like The Room, and have midnight showings once a month for people who want to drunkenly relive the secondhand-embarrassment.

Commentarium (10 Comments)

Nov 11 11 - 2:35pm
profrobert

The TV ads for it make it look like an abomination. Jokes embarrassing the homeless? Really? That's what you're using to sell the movie.

I've long thought Adam Sandler is criminally unfunny. The Chanukah Song is fantastic, there was exactly one sketch on SNL that wasn't like fingernails on a chalkboard (a New England game show called "You Can't Get There From Here"), and the movie where he's a Red Sox fan was not unwatchable. The rest of his work is too painfully awful to watch. I have no reason to believe he's an evil person, but I just wish he'd retire to the obscurity he so richly deserves -- an annual YouTube watching of The Chanukah Song and not a peep otherwise.

Nov 11 11 - 9:57pm
hm

I love him in Airheads, but probably because his part isnt too big for him.

Nov 11 11 - 6:29pm
Wossamotta

If it's worse than "Grown Ups," it's gotta be horrendous

Nov 11 11 - 7:48pm
Me

It's up to 3 percent now.

Nov 11 11 - 7:49pm
Me

And Al Pacino is in this? What?

Nov 11 11 - 8:06pm
IRS

Al had an overdue tax bill. You gotta do what ya gotta do.

Nov 13 11 - 5:36pm
nerkums

I'M A FAN OF MAN

Nov 13 11 - 5:36pm
nerkums

I'M A HUMANIST

Dec 01 11 - 9:59am
JCB

Who are you carrying all those bricks for anyway? God? Is that it? GAAAAAHHHHDDD?

Nov 20 11 - 2:42pm
Keys

Articles like this really grsaee the shafts of knowledge.