I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (2007)

Good Cast

I love this movie. I went to see it in theaters and it's just non stop laughter. I had to go buy it on DVD. You will find the usual people that work with Adam Sandler, and Kevin James is alot funnier that I originally thought. They make a good pair for the movie.
August 2, 2008

Just the usual Adam Sandler comedy

Chuck and Larry isn't as bad as critics called it but it's still not great. Kevin James didn't make a wise decision choosing to make an Adam Sandler movie as his first movie since the King of Queens series finale. I mean when did the Happy Madison company ever make anyone a star ? Plus King of Queens was way funnier than this movie. He basically just ended the show to just play...Doug Heffernan making believe he's gay. If he made believe he was gay in the show though, it would have actually been funny since the show had better writing.

We don't get much new from Sandler either. He once again just plays a jerk that everyone likes for no good reason. I mean we're supposed to believe that Jame's character would want him to be the caregiver of his kids if something happened him. While he's such a father figure that he leaves the toilet seat down and also does something bad and blames it on one of the kids. We also get the same sort of unrealistic court scene that we have seen in like 4 other Sandler scenes before this. Where everyone is cheering for Sandler's character like they are at a sporting event. He of course gets to beat up people, I've never seen Adam Sandler act tough and beat up someone in one of his movies. He beats up anyone that calls his character a fagot. How about getting an Adam Sandler movie where he's beaten to a bloody pulp for once. At least we get to see Jessica Biel in her bra and panties though, that almost had me giving it 5 stars. July 7, 2008

ridiculing the intolerant

Firefighters Chuck (Adam Sandler) and Larry (Kevin James) are best friends. Chuck is a very single womanizer; Larry is a widower with two kids who never dates. When Larry finds out that since he didn't update his paperwork soon enough after his wife's death, his kids won't be able to get his pension if something happens to him (yeah, I found that a little hard to swallow, too, but what the heck--the reason isn't the point), he comes up with the idea of posing as a gay couple--the new relationship would give him a bureaucratically-approved reason to change his paperwork.

The city official in charge of such things is suspicious, and investigates them, and they hire a lawyer (Jessica Biel) to help them out.

In the meantime, they have to deal with Chuck's withdrawal from his addiction to women, which isn't helped any by his attraction to their lawyer, and discrimination from their fellow firefighters.

Dan Ackroyd is fabulous as the fire chief, and Ving Rhames as a firefighter inspired to come out of the closet by Chuck and Larry's example is over-the-top but good-naturedly funny.

This is, I think, a good example of how expectations affect enjoyment of a movie. I expected goofy, low-brow humor, and I found Chuck and Larry better than I'd expected. The friendship between the two men was realistic and poignant, and there was definitely a message of tolerance. Both of them, and their firefighter pals as well all end up better people at the end of the movie.

However, this movie is in no way meant to be the defining movie of LGBT rights. It's not a serious movie. It's not about gays in general. It's about these two friends. And on that level, it succeeds very well.

And in fact, it also succeeds in its message of tolerance--in the same way that Blazing Saddles (30th Anniversary Special Edition) tackles racism: by ridiculing the intolerant. June 26, 2008

So bad you have to see it to believe it.

The gay stuff is predictable and mostly tired, but the hefty side platter of sexism and racism will leave your jaw on the floor. Who ARE the people that make these things and WHAT were they thinking??? It's so poorly crafted, it's kind of enjoyable as a bad film. On the Showgirls 1 to 10 scale, (1 being Hush, 10 being Showgirls) I'd give it a healthy 7 for enjoyable badness.

The cast looks miserable and embarrassed and the dark circles under their eyes seem to indicate they know they are working on damaged goods. Steve Buscemi is actually kind of OK and is able to make something of the stupid, stupid, stupid script, that had to have been written by a 7th grade junior high class from 1986. Dan Aykroyd speaks and moves quickly through his scenes, surely hoping that if his part is brief, no one will have noticed him. Alas, I did. June 21, 2008

WARNING: THIS FILM CONTAINS DIRTY JOKES AND PRO-G@Y PROPAGANDA

I now pronounce you a morally bankrupt nation.

Why would I go see a movie when I KNEW ahead of time that it would be liberal propaganda? Because I'm MAN enough to do it!

Being a normal, healthy, VD-free man that loves women, I wasn't worried about the liberal propaganda affecting me. The only thing that bothered me was being in such a confined area with all the sickos that see this kind of movie.

"Look, it's two straight guys pretending to be g*y! And look, now they're in a g*y parade! It's funny! Yuk yuk yuk." That's your typical audience member of "Chuck and Larry."

The movie starts out with the weakest premise ever hack-written in Hollywood, to wit, Larry misses the filing deadline to change his beneficiary from his late wife to his kids. That's the catalyst for this movie, a man accidentally forgets to file paperwork. As weak as this is, it can't compare with the absolute ridiculousness of his solution: pretend to be another man's g*y lover!

A Barrack Obama biography takes less willing suspension of disbelief to believe than does this drivel!

This alone was enough to make me hate it but things went from bad to worse. As you may have guessed, every joke in this movie is a g*y joke or a sex joke, obviously because that's the only kind of humor that a person who would enjoy this type of movie would be able to understand.

Then there is a scene where various nude men and women are feeling each other up in the shower. The camera zooms in on various unclothed body parts. I ran outside and looked at the marquee: Rated PG-13. I just sat on the stoop and sobbed a bit before summoning up the courage to reenter this sinful display of sinners.

Even further supporting my position that this movie is pure filth, is the scene where Chuck and Larry rescue an obese man from a burning house. You are not going to believe this. The three of them end up falling down the steps and when they reach the bottom, the obese man and Chuck are in the 69 position and the obese man farts in his face! This is the kind of low-grade filth young liberals revel in.

Think that's bad? The movie then goes on to degrade women by showing Tori, Larry's girlfriend, on the john! Then a man upside down in a vent claims he just peed in his own face.

Would you believe that after all these crimes this movie has perpetrated that it is also racist!? Rob Schneider, in Asian guise, presents numerous Asian stereotypes that made my Japanese girlfriend cry! That's right being a normal man, I have a girlfriend. I can't wait until we're married and can have normal, loving intercourse.

The movie goes on to insult an even more broad-range of groups by portraying ministers as intolerant of g*y people, and then advocates violence against ministers by having Larry punch them!

This movie is truly an abomination against normal people everywhere and should be avoided like the plague. Unless, that is, you are a liberal in which case you will say things as: "Do me next Larry, do me next!"

This movie is nothing more than liberal pro-g*y-marriage propaganda!
May 26, 2008

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