A match made not in heaven, but in the sort of studio script conference that turns every idea into mass-market mush.
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07/19/07
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
There is a lot of overcompensation going on here.
07/19/07
It's a shock to the system when this example of puerile comedy turns into a pulpit-pounding sermon. The film's sledgehammer approach makes it more immature than earnest.
07/19/07
The picture delivers 90 minutes of gay caricatures, along with a barrage of fat jokes, and culminates by lecturing the audience about how wrong it is to mock those who are different.
07/18/07
This movie encourages sensitivity by hitting everyone over the head with its humor hammer.
07/18/07
It might seem offensive if it weren't so lame.
07/18/07
It’s a modern classic (despite a cheap-shot plug for Giuliani). By comparison, Hollywood’s most celebrated gay comedies -- In and Out, Chuck and Buck, Blades of Glory, even the laughable Brokeback Mountain -- were all failures of nerve.
07/18/07
I Now Pronounce you Chuck and Larry isn't just unfunny; it's racist, sexist and homophobic -- and truly unpleasant to watch. ... I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry practices exactly the kind of intolerance it preaches against.
07/18/07
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.
07/17/07
Tremendously savvy in its stupid way, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry is as eloquent as Brokeback Mountain, and even more radical.
07/17/07
A comedy premise that supplies plenty of sidesplitting laughs ... as well as a strong, touching message about tolerance and acceptance.
07/17/07
The film is pro-gay but it's less interested in collapsing straight-male hang-ups about gay men than is in putting on a surprisingly mawkish show of political correctness.
07/17/07
This one could have been really funny except for one thing: it's not 1950.
07/16/07
Relentlessly juvenile and awash in stereotypes.
07/13/07
Top CriticOne longs for something like Paul Rudnick's script for In & Out, which was very funny yet delved into the trauma of coming out and the perplexing issue of homophobia in society.
07/13/07
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