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Posted on Sat, Nov 12, 2011 : 7:07 a.m.

'Jack and Jill' an utter dud from Adam Sandler

By AnnArbor.com Freelance Journalist

Jack And Jill
Now showing at Rave, Quality 16, Brighton
Review by Corey Hall of the Metro Times
Grade: D

Based on recent output, Adam Sandler is as funny as your 11-year-old nephew making arm-fart noises at the dinner table — but you wouldn't pay that obnoxious brat $20 million a picture, would you? Yet Sandler's dire reign of box-office terrorism continues unabated; this is actually the second Sandler-driven Happy Madison chuckle-fest in less than eight months ("Just Go With It" came first), and while he didn't star, he also helped "write" "Buck Larson: Born to Be a Star," a sterling turd which achieved the rare and coveted "0" percent score on Rotten Tomatoes. "Jack and Jill" could easily match that inglorious feat, or exceed it, if that were mathematically feasible.

Read the full review here