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Jack & Jill (Parrot Scenes)

Postby Michael » Sun Jul 15, 2012 10:54 pm

Just watched the movie Jack & Jill starring Adam Sandler and Adam Sandler. Worst movie I've seen in years but was surprised to see a Cockatoo in it. The parrot character was the only thing that kept me watching till the end because I was curious what would end up happening to it. Yet despite appearing in numerous scenes, the parrot turned out completely irrelevant to the otherwise asinine plot. Worse yet, virtually every scene the bird appeared in, it was being abused or mistreated in some way. Hearing Adam Sandler do the voice for the parrot was gunshot to my ears.

Whether it was Adam Sandler falling on it, letting it fly away in the woods, caging it in a tiny cage or some guy trying to eat it on a sandwich, getting taped on a kids back, or being dipped in chocolate, the bird got the short end of the rope. Yet the bird's acting was great and it really deserves better than this, I hope it finds a better agent cause of all the characters in the movie, it's the only one who's got potential. Poor bird was the only good thing about this rotten movie.

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Re: Jack & Jill (Parrot Scenes)

Postby marie83 » Mon Jul 16, 2012 6:33 am

I'll probably not bother watching this film but in general I really wish films using animals would treat the appropriately. Ok everyone knows the stories are generally not real and they are acting but you always get the odd idiot who will try ridiculous stuff (american pie - non animal related but a good example of stupidity) or think it's ok to keep an animal in unsuitable housing, feed it incorrectly etc or the films give out the impression a certain animal is really really cool and don't take much looking after (the owl in harry potter for example).
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Re: Jack & Jill (Parrot Scenes)

Postby Arshia » Sun Aug 05, 2012 2:48 pm

Have you seen Iron Man 2? :D
I think you'll be taken a bit more by how they treat /their/ cockatoo
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