Rotten
Blind to the fact that it should be rising up against its own formulaic kind.
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times
Jack and Jill vs. The World
2008 · 1h 29m · PG-13
Comedy, Romance
Directed by
Vanessa Parise
Overview
Jack and Jill's Manifesto of Rules to Live By Rule 1 Be honest Rule 2 Believe in fairy tales Rule 3 Accept time as our friend Rule 4 Make sure the nooky is good Rule 5 Promote beauty. Wage a sustained campaign against ugliness Rule 6 Abandon the pursuit of happiness and its false promise Rule 7 Show compassion, except to pirates Rule 8 Less TV Rule 9 Always be willing to admit when you're wrong
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
25%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Parise no doubt intends the pic's attention to the disease -- plus animal adoption and fair trade coffee -- to be socially enlightening, but it feels suspiciously like sympathy-mongering.
Peter Debruge, Variety
Rotten
More farce might have served the film well; as Parise draws from a playbook of medical melodrama and romantic-comedies cliches, her moral about living outside the box becomes harder and harder to swallow.
Sam Sweet, L.A. Weekly
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