Jack and Jill vs. The World

Finally, a new entry in the flagging ‘Commodified Misanthropy’ genre– a niche that, once dominant in the world of Independent-insofar-as-it-is-made-by-a-smaller-studio-that-is-owned-by-a-larger-studio-that-is-owned-by-one-of-the-five-companies-that-owns-the-entirety-of-everything Cinema, has fallen on hard times since the mid-to-late-nineties when Aaron Sorkin and Paul Simms reconstituted a pure strain of ‘Screwball Quirk Utopia’ (first discovered by Ernst Lubitsch in the 1930s) and everybody decided that they would rip that off ad infinitum instead (when they weren’t ripping off Wes Anderson).