Jack Black has been forcing himself to play the family friendly character version of “Jack Black” and it’s starting to feel obvious.

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I miss the Jack Black I grew up on.

Does someone have something on him? Is he stuck in some hell of a contract? Is he forcing himself to to be kid friendly?

I feel like we haven’t seen Jack be genuinely himself in a LONG time, he just feels so forced in everything he’s in lately.

The ONLY thing I’ve seen lately that felt like he had the feel and energy I remember was on SNL a week ago, specifically shoving flaming hot Doritos in his ass.

Watch that and tell me that man hasn’t been missing for 10 years.

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  2. SuperJoeUK Avatar

    He does have kids now, it could just be that he enjoys that side of himself.

  3. TheBlackTemplar125 Avatar

    He did what with flaming hot doritos

  4. DinkerFister Avatar

    Sounds like a “you” problem.

  5. amateurish_gamedev Avatar

    He seems to enjoy himself now? He likes video games, watching silly stuff, doing fun stuff. He is becoming family friendly because he has kids and family now, and that changes people.

    I mean, people do change as the got older. Don’t expect people to stay same for our enjoyment.

  6. EpicSteak Avatar

    He likes money, he is not being forced to do anything he doesn’t want to.

  7. Warm_Shoulder3606 Avatar

    I think he’s always been kid friendly and goofy. He’s one of the only major movie stars who genuinely is good in and enjoys just the fun, goofy, light hearted stuff. I mean look at his stuff. Kung Fu Panda, Nacho Libre, School of rock, Mario movie, Minecraft movie, etc. just to name some. He’s just a beloved family film guy, and he’s also pretty damn funny too. He sells his characters and lines so good

  8. Sensitive_Golf3889 Avatar

    Doing broad family comedies has been more lucrative for him than songs about cunnilingus, so can you really blame him?

    He was awesome in this Mr. Show sketch from back in the day https://youtu.be/TpWU9HYExrU?si=Gc7seVQj40CesceW (skip to 2:09 if you don’t care about context)

    (edit: switched to a higher-quality video link)

  9. HandbagHawker Avatar

    It’s called growing up. You should try it some time.

  10. Noodlefanboi Avatar

    Outside of Tenacious D, he’s been pretty family friendly for the last 20+ years. 

    He’s also been rich and successful enough to pick and choose what roles he plays for about the same amount of time. 

  11. CIMARUTA Avatar

    You cant seriously be considering that someone is blackmailing him right lmao?

  12. GuiltyGear69 Avatar

    jack black is the star of the most popular movie in america. he is watering himself down to make more money. end thread

  13. Nosferatatron Avatar

    Does anyone remember when he dropped his old buddy Kyle for making an unfortunate joke?

  14. Necessary_not Avatar

    Thats called growing up I guess

  15. DareDreamer23 Avatar

    I enjoyed him in the King Kong movie

  16. wintermute_13 Avatar

    My kielbasa sausage has just got to perform.

  17. yooq2 Avatar

    You’ve probably never seen Jack Black genuinely be himself.

  18. Matt-J-McCormack Avatar

    The current youth paradigm skews conservative and prudish. Edgy doesn’t sell like it did in the early noughties.