And, according to a recent article about everyfilm in a national newspaper, that should make me the happiest man in the UK.
Today, I am not in the UK (we watched this at Pathe Munt in Amsterdam) but am feeling deflated.
Why? because Jack and Jill had the opposite effect on me and Mrs W to the Muppets. Yesterday, our hearts were singing but today Adam Sandler's cross-dressing nonsense left us without even a smirk.
To put it bluntly, Jack and Jill is a terrible movie.
It's attempts at humour are coarse and blatant and every single plot-line can be predicted five minutes before it happened.
In addition, so much of it is given away in the trailers, sitting through the whole film is pointless.
We know why Sandler did it - he is, after all, the king of the cheap laughs.
But we were left asking ourselves why Al Pacino demeaned himself by taking a starring role and why Johnny Depp and John McEnroe stooped low and accepted unfunny cameos.
The premise of Jack and Jill gave little room for optimism.
Jill is an ugly brute of a lass who comes to visit her self-centred advertising executive twin brother and his family at Thanksgiving.
She puts her foot in her mouth constantly and he doesn't hold back on telling her how awful he thinks she is.
I forgot to say...Sandler plays both roles.
Yes, Adam Sandler in drag is...about as funny as an ingrowing toenail.
And, aside of not laughing, chortling or sniggering once in this dreadful movie, we had the feeling of being manipulated.
The product placement is the most blatant in any movie in the last few years. It might as well be called Jack And Jill In Association with Dunkin' Donuts.
"What rating would you give to that?'', I asked Mrs W. She wanted to give it no points at all. It will get just one because it wasn't quite as offensive as Uncle David last year.
Laughs: ok, some people in the cinema did giggle a bit - but we din't...so none
Jumps: none
Vomit: none but plenty of horrible toilet jokes
Nudity: none, thank goodness.
Overall rating: 1/10. It could end up being the worst film of the year.
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