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
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,
24 Apr 2008
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,
24 Apr 2008
rotten:
Blind to the fact that it should be rising up against its own formulaic kind.