What a drag: the death of the cross-dressing movie

[Butterfly]

What a drag: the death of the cross-dressing movie
The Guardian
By Steve Rose
26 January, 2012


http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/jan/26/what-a-drag-crossdressing-movies


Adam Sandler's latest comedy is shallow, scatological, lazy, crass and brazenly commercial. That's not news. But Jack and Jill may also mark something more significant: the moment when cinematic cross-dressing officially stops being funny. Sandler plays both twins of the title, and his Jill is pretty much what you would fear: just a screechingly irritating man in bad drag. Jill pulls lumps of wax out of her ears, leaves big sweaty patches on the bed, and defecates noisily after eating Mexican food. It's funny because it's a woman doing it, you see? If you had to identify the exact second of comic death, it would probably come at the close of a scene in which Jack disguises himself as Jill (so, Sandler without a wig puts on a wig) in order to seduce Al Pacino but then the melons fall out of his bra!

[Cindy]

Adam Sandler, acting and humour are a three way contradiction.