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.
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09/21/07
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.
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... [More]
Starring: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Jessica Biel, Ving Rhames
Director: Dennis Dugan
Reviews for I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry
Top CriticIt's not just homosexuals who will be outraged by this crass farce.
09/21/07
Top CriticPronouncing Adam Sandler’s latest comedy anything but a disaster of Chernobyl-sized proportions is beyond me.
09/21/07
With ribald and stale jokes at odds with the slender social message, this wedding piece crashes and burns amid its own hypocrisy.
09/21/07
Top CriticI 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.
09/21/07
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.
09/21/07
Top CriticAdam Sandler adds here to his lengthening charge sheet as the most repellent "entertainer" on the planet.
09/21/07
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07/31/07
Not so much gay as bloody miserable.
09/21/07
In essence Dennis Duggan's film is patronising and a little degrading.
09/21/07
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.
07/19/07
Top CriticThe 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.
09/21/07
Top CriticVeering between kneejerk homophobia and PC proselytising for gay rights – often in the same scene – Dennis Dugan’s comedy is an unhappy union.
09/21/07
Enjoyable, sharply written and frequently hilarious, this is Adam Sandler's best comedy since The Wedding Singer.
09/20/07
I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry revels in gay stereotypes and allegedly funny uses of derogatory words, then tries to squeeze out a pro-tolerance message at the end. The whole thing rings as insincerely as an Isaiah Washington apology.
07/24/07
You don't even need to find this movie offensive to hate it. You just need to stay awake long enough to notice that it's not funny.
07/23/07
I laughed enough to assure myself I wasn't wasting my time, but not enough to convince me Sandler isn't on cruise control.
07/26/07
If there's a saving grace, and there is, it's that the movie strives, in its often-awkward way, for acceptance. And how bad can that be?
07/19/07
It might seem offensive if it weren't so lame.
07/18/07
Contrived to the point of painful.
07/20/07
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