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I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry

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I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry (2007)

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Reviews Counted:152

Fresh:20

Rotten:132

Average Rating:3.6/10

Consensus: Whether by way of inept comedy or tasteless stereotypes, I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry falters on both levels.

Rated: 12A [See Full Rating] for crude sexual content throughout, nudity, language and drug references.

Runtime: 2 hrs 20 mins

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release:21-09-2007

Synopsis: Two comedy dynamos unite in this comedy from director Dennis Dugan (PARENTHOOD, HAPPY GILMORE). Brooklyn firefighters Larry Valentine (Kevin James) and Chuck Levine (Adam Sandler) have watched each... Two comedy dynamos unite in this comedy from director Dennis Dugan (PARENTHOOD, HAPPY GILMORE). Brooklyn firefighters Larry Valentine (Kevin James) and Chuck Levine (Adam Sandler) have watched each other's back since they met in the Academy even though they are different as can be. Playboy Chuck can't get enough of the ladies and they can't get enough of him. Larry, meanwhile, is a widower raising two young children and still grieving the death of his wife. When Larry saves Chuck's life on a call, he comes up with a unique way for his buddy to repay him: having missed the opportunity to name his children beneficiaries, he asks Chuck to act as his domestic partner so that his children will be provided for if tragedy strikes. But these two buddies soon find themselves the subject of an investigation by the city. Enter Alex McDonough (Jessica Biel), their highly attractive attorney who leaves Chuck desperately wishing he wasn't pretending to be gay. Initially, Chuck and Larry are as guilty of making stereotypical gay jokes as the next average Joe. In fact, pretty much any and every gay joke and stereotype turns up in this film. But their attitudes change when the shoe is on the other foot and they find themselves and their new gay friends the subject of discrimination, mocking and name-calling. Ving Rhames, Steve Buscemi, Richard Chamberlain, and Nicholas Turturro have supporting roles, and musicians Lance Bass and Dave Matthews make brief appearances. SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE alumni also abound: watch for Rachel Dratch, David Spade, and Rob Schneider in small roles, while Dan Akroyd plays the boys' captain. [More]

Starring: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Jessica Biel, Ving Rhames

Starring: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Jessica Biel, Ving Rhames, Steve Buscemi, Dan Aykroyd, Rob Schneider

Director: Dennis Dugan

Director: Dennis Dugan
Screenwriter: Barry Fanaro, Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor
Producer: Michael Bostick, Tom Shadyac, Adam Sandler
Composer: Rupert Gregson-Williams
Studio: Universal Pictures

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Full Review Source: Screen International | comment Comment
07/31/07
Screen International

The closing message claims to promote tolerance, but this remains a lads' comedy: it's all about sniggering at pansies and peeking up girls' skirts. And even that market deserves something funnier.

Full Review Source: BBC | comment 2 Comments
09/21/07
Anna Smith
Anna Smith
BBC
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Adam Sandler adds here to his lengthening charge sheet as the most repellent "entertainer" on the planet.

Full Review Source: Independent | comment Comment
09/21/07
Anthony Quinn
Anthony Quinn
Independent

Pronouncing Adam Sandler’s latest comedy anything but a disaster of Chernobyl-sized proportions is beyond me.

Full Review Source: Daily Mirror [UK] | comment Comment
09/21/07
David Edwards
David Edwards
Daily Mirror [UK]

In essence Dennis Duggan's film is patronising and a little degrading.

Full Review Source: This is London | comment Comment
09/21/07
Derek Malcolm
Derek Malcolm
This is London

Chuck & Larry wants it both ways, indulging in ass obsession and the lamest queer stereotypes since Franklin Pangborn was in short pants, then hoisting the rainbow flag at half-mast in a panicky cry for tolerance.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment 2 Comments
07/19/07
Melissa Anderson
Melissa Anderson
Time Out
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It's not just homosexuals who will be outraged by this crass farce.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
09/21/07
Neil Smith
Neil Smith
Channel 4 Film
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I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry is a comedy of masquerade that Shakespeare might have written if he were pea-brained and talentless and had been commissioned to script an Adam Sandler movie.

Full Review Source: Financial Times | comment Comment
09/21/07
Nigel Andrews
Nigel Andrews
Financial Times

My faith in a beneficent God, never strong, has been shattered by news that Alexander Payne contributed to the screenplay for this horrific new Adam Sandler vehicle.

Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment Comment
09/21/07
Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]
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Not so much gay as bloody miserable.

Full Review Source: Sky Movies | comment Comment
09/21/07
Tim Evans
Tim Evans
Sky Movies

Veering between kneejerk homophobia and PC proselytising for gay rights – often in the same scene – Dennis Dugan’s comedy is an unhappy union.

Full Review Source: Total Film | comment Comment
09/21/07
Tom Charity
Tom Charity
Total Film

The film-makers behind I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry would probably claim a message of tolerance and personal growth, but this woeful Adam Sandler vehicle is as nasty a piece of sniggering homophobia as I have seen in a long time.

Full Review Source: Times [UK] | comment Comment
09/21/07
Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide
Times [UK]
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With ribald and stale jokes at odds with the slender social message, this wedding piece crashes and burns amid its own hypocrisy.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
09/21/07
Will Lawrence
Will Lawrence
Empire Magazine
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Enjoyable, sharply written and frequently hilarious, this is Adam Sandler's best comedy since The Wedding Singer.

Full Review Source: ViewLondon | comment Comment
09/20/07
Matthew Turner
Matthew Turner
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07/21/07
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08/17/07
Sydney Morning Herald

That anyone in their right minds could be fooled into thinking that two hours of overt homophobia with a disingenuous punch line about tolerance is okay makes me pig-biting mad.

Full Review Source: Premiere Magazine | comment Comment
07/19/07
Aaron Hillis
Aaron Hillis
Premiere Magazine

In the credits, the filmmakers acknowledge Brooklyn firefighters who died on 9/11. It's an honorable gesture, but what of the previous two hours? What of the scenes portraying firemen as cigar-chomping, homophobic, misogynistic chumps?

Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | comment Comment
07/20/07
Amy Biancolli
Amy Biancolli
Houston Chronicle

The question is why Sandler even bothers with a premise. Whatever the putative storyline, his antics are as predictable as flies on cow patties and even more odorous.

Full Review Source: Killer Movie Reviews | comment 1 Comment
07/17/07
Andrea Chase
Andrea Chase
Killer Movie Reviews

In the proper hands this could have come off as genuine, but under the direction of Dennis Dugan and the empire that is Adam Sandler, it's just a vehicle for cheap shots, reusable jokes, and tired clichés.

Full Review Source: FromTheBalcony | comment 1 Comment
07/19/07
Bill Clark
Bill Clark
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