Here’s the trailer for Jack & Jill, which features Adam Sandler playing the roles of twins (logic suggests that they must be fraternal twins, since one is female…but they look identical. Then again, where has there ever been logic in an Adam Sandler movie?).
Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star is by Sandler’s Happy Madison production company, and tells the story of someone who looks fairly retarded (the consistently unfunny Nick Swardson), who discovers that his parents used to be porn stars, and he decides to follow in their pecker tracks.
Both trailers were entirely laugh-free, but while both Nick Swardson and Adam Sandler have more or less equally negative charisma, the fact that the one movie has two Adam Sandlers gives it the edge. (I think the awful wig and Pacino slumming cancel each other out.)
I swear, when I saw the trailer for Jack & Jill, I thought it was a joke.
Did you see Funny People, where Sandler plays comedian George Simmons who makes ridiculous lowest-denominator, gross-out/juvenile-humor movies, like Mer-Man!. I honestly thought this was a fake trailer featuring George Simmons.
When I saw the “Jack and Jill” trailer, I had honest doubts as to whether it was a real movie. “Bucky Larsen,” while it looks awful, at least seems real.
I’m willing to bet that neither one scores higher than 10% on the tomatometer. Holy hog shit, they look so unfunny…
They both seem like they’re going to be atrocious and I’m confident that Jack and Jill will end up as one of the worst movies of all time. I thought similar things of Bucky he first time I saw it but the second time I got a glimpse of the secondary characters and I think it has potential to not be terrible (but still not good).
When I saw the Bucky Larson trailer in the theater, I thought it looked like the least funny comedy in recent memory. I haven’t seen the Jack & Jill trailer, and, judging by this thread, I don’t think I want to. Life is depressing enough.
He actually does well when he plays someone of normal intelligence. I tend to like (or at least tolerate without prejudice) him when he does something like that, but it seems he and a few other notables (I’m talking to you, Will Ferrel) just have to pretend they stopped maturing somewhere around junior high and that’s what gets committed to screen.
The first time I saw the commercial and without knowing that “Bucky Larson” was by his production company I immediately associated it with him because it had that creepy, creepy feel to it.
I haven’t seen the Jack & Jill trailer yet, but from the descriptions above, I will abstain from watching it to leave my eyes unpoisoned for as long as possible.
I have a question about the Bucky Larson TV spots. Who is that over-tanned jackass laugh-talking right at the camera when they flash the title? For a second I thought it might be Sandler, but I don’t think so anymore.
The Bucky Larson trailer is easily the most annoying thing I have seen. I don’t know who that guy is at the end (that laughs when he says “it’s rated R”), but I want to punch him.
I think you’re talking about Peter Dante whose only claim to fame is being friends with Adam Sandler and so being cast in any movie Sandler touches in any way.
