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I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
Universal Pictures

I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry reviews


5.3

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You Don't Mess with the Zohan

MPAA RATING: PG-13 for crude sexual content throughout, nudity, language and drug references

Starring Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Jessica Biel, Dan Aykroyd, Steve Buscemi, Ving Rhames, and Richard Chamberlain

Chuck and Larry are the pride of their fire station: tow guy's guys always side-by-side and willing to do anything for each other. Grateful Chuck owes Larry his life, and Larry, a widower, calls in that favor big time when civic red tape prevents him from naming his own two kids as his life insurance beneficiaries. All Chuck has to do is claim to be Larry's domestic partner on some city forms. Easy. Nobody will ever know. But when an overzealous, spot checking bureaucrat becomes suspicious, the new couple's arrangement becomes a citywide issue and goes form confidential to the front page news. (Universal Pictures)

GENRE(S):	Comedy
WRITTEN BY:	Lew Gallo (treatment) Jim Taylor Alexander Payne Barry Fanaro
DIRECTED BY:	Dennis Dugan
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: November 6, 2007 Theatrical: July 20, 2007
RUNNING TIME:	140 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	USA

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Miami Herald Connie Ogle

Funny in the juvenile, crass way we expect.

Village Voice Nathan Lee

Tremendously savvy in its stupid way, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry is as eloquent as "Brokeback Mountain," and even more radical.

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

Broad and badly made but sporadically inspired, "Chuck and Larry" is still an amazing improvement over "License to Wed," this month's other wedding comedy.

The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt

The curious thing here is that Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor rewrote this long-in-development screenplay. Yet the authors of such smart comedies as "Sideways," "About Schmidt" and "Citizen Ruth" can't move the film away from the world of easy laughs and sitcom jokes into a realm where sexual prejudices and presumptions get examined in a whimsical yet insightful manner.

Variety Brian Lowry

The kind of buddy comedy Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau might have starred in 40 years ago, when the material would have felt less dated, if no less silly.

LA Weekly Ella Taylor

If nothing else, Chuck & Larry should open up a whole new career path for the ineffably funny, unselfconsciously buck-naked Ving Rhames as an übermacho firefighter who’s been sitting on a little secret of his own.

Washington Post Desson Thomson

Essentially, Chuck & Larry is an oafish chance for audiences to laugh at gay-bashing jokes and then feel morally redeemed for doing so -- courtesy of an obligatory wrap-up scene that reminds us that homosexuals are humans, too.

ReelViews James Berardinelli

There's nothing here to appreciate for anyone who isn't a Sandler fan and, unfortunately, too little even for those who have dubbed themselves lifelong supporters.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker

It's kind of like "Tootsie," only without the drag. Or the class. Or the laughs.

Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips

The film is half rutting goat, half preacher.

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

Directed with his usual flair for the obvious by Dennis Dugan ("The Benchwarmers), "Chuck and Larry" has the nowness factor of a Polish joke. Does anybody laugh at this stuff anymore?

Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey

The moral of this crude, intermittently funny Adam Sandler comedy costarring the reliable Kevin James is that: It's OK to be gay, it's not OK to call someone a faggot, and it takes a real man to admit he loves his man pal.

Newsweek David Ansen

If only the laughs were bigger, smarter and more frequent than they are.

San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub

Despite the fact that the movie covers some new cinematic territory, much of the humor feels recycled, mostly from the "Seinfeld" episodes "The Boyfriend" (the one where Jerry has a man crush on Keith Hernandez) and "The Outing."

The New York Times Manohla Dargis

Sporadically funny, casually sexist, blithely racist and about as visually sophisticated as a parking-garage surveillance video.

Portland Oregonian Lisa Rose

The troubling thing about "Chuck & Larry" is the hypocrisy. It's a comedy that ridicules the people it's supposed to be championing.

Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek

With its tepid gags and faltering pacing, may not be a very good movie. But at least, within its clumsiness, it strives for some kind of solidarity.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Kamal AL-Solaylee

Somewhere between its loutish humour and laudable sentiments are the traces of a good buddy movie that could, at the very least, have been harmless summer fun.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias

If it doesn't look ridiculous now, try watching it again in a decade or three. Then it'll be funny for all the wrong reasons.

Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

Myself, I felt victimized by the stereotype shtick of reliably grating Rob Schneider as a Canadian-Japanese wedding-chapel minister from SNL castoff hell. But maybe that's just because this movie encourages sensitivity by hitting everyone over the head with its humor hammer.

Los Angeles Times Kevin Crust

Fails to deliver on its main promise of big laughs, which is the film's truly unforgivable sin.

USA Today Claudia Puig

A movie that gives marriage, homosexuality, friendship, firefighters, children and nearly everything else a bad name.

TV Guide Ken Fox

In what can only be described as a throwback to the awkward "gay" farces of the 1970s and '80s -- think "The Ritz" and "Partners -- this painfully uncomfortable buddy comedy trips all over itself to say something positive while still managing to offend. Worse still, it's just not funny.

Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman

Plays like some uninformed seventh-grader's view of gay men.

Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach

Formulaic 'Chuck & Larry' is a crass, unfulfilling effort.

New York Post Kyle Smith

The movie isn't insulting to homosexuals but to comedy.

Premiere Aaron Hillis

So go on, pay your ten bucks and get your hate on.

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

No comedy this year can beat this dud for mealy-mouthed hypocrisy.

Wall Street Journal Joanne Kaufman

In under two hours, the synthetic, insufferable I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry manages to insult gays, straights, men, women, children, African-Americans, Asians, pastors, mailmen, insurance adjusters, firemen, doctors -- and fans of show music. That's championship stuff.

Film Threat Pete Vonder Haar

So remarkably free of laughs I might as well have been watching John Wayne Gacy’s home movies.

Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer

Comedy that seems designed to be as bad as it can be.

Chicago Reader J.R. Jones

More than anything Chuck and Larry shows just how flaccid American movie comedy has become now that "Saturday Night Live" has replaced vaudeville as our comedy college.

Austin Chronicle Toddy Burton

A movie full of weak moments, contrived to the point of painful.

The average user rating for this movie is 5.3 (out of 10) based on 76 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

David gave it a3:
Just saw this on dvd a couple of days ago. Just another typical hollywood crap that wants to push the gay agenda down everyones throat (pun intended)! The first 30-45 minutes wasn't bad but it got so uncomfortable and just stupid! Everyone keeps talking about all these groups being offended, well I am here to say that as a heterosexual guy, I am offended!! There is no way in hell any straight guy will do and go through all the things these guys did. NO MATTER WHAT!! The only reason I gave the movie a 3 was that there were a few laughs and that Jessica Beil was so hot! And so was all the other girls in it.

Moa gave it a9:
Oh, come on. The material was hilarious - I don't understand why the critics and users say that this movie had barely any laughs in it. Do I have to remind you of the "I'm Every Woman" part in the shower? Or Chuck binning gay trash? Or that creepy looking gay inspector throwing the basketball? This is all classic stuff and I'm sure gay people can laugh at it as well. It informed people about gay rights and how we should not treat a lot of queers the way some of us are and have been before this movie. This movie rocked, and those who did not find it funny need to get a sense of humour. Hell yeah!

Lauren s gave it a3:
This isn't even funny; and when you watch a comedy, don't you think you should laugh a little? I found this movie so... ridiculous, i really couldn't laugh at how bad it was. It's about these guys, who are fire fighters; one day Chuck rescues Larry from an almost death experience. Because Larry "owes him" for saving his life, Chuck asks Larry to pretend to be gay so he can get a pension for his kids. The two end up faking a gay relationship. On top of that, Chuck's kids even act gay. Skip the posistives, because there are none, and go to the negatives: 1. Sandler doesn't like to take his work seriously, therefore he takes "attention roles" that seem to reflect his personality with the movie; cheesy and wasteful. 2. No back bone, no story, what's the point of the movie? Overall, it's safe to say it's too gay for existence.

kathy h gave it a6:
This was not so bad, usually I do not like Adam Sandler movies but this one, as far fetched as it was, had a few good lines. I do not think it is offensive as some of the other reviewers. Lighten up.

Any L gave it a10:
I thought it was funny, my roommate and I laughed the whole way through, and my roommate is asian and he was not offended by this movie. It was for fun, slapstick, fun comedy....were people expecting a classy drama? gee

Alex G gave it a9:
Bad Reviews??? surely not this is a brilliant film with some superb comedy acting, it may come across as homophobic and something a pre-teen would design but some of the humor goes beyond that in order to make it appealing to all age groups, perfect for anyone with a sense of humor

A. Nonymous gave it a0:
Crass, banal and incompetent. Typical Sandler trash. The only reason this movie received any good Crits was because it was jumping on the "Gay Rights" bandwagon, in an attempt to hide what was just an immature cheap shot at homosexual jokes.

I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry Universal Pictures

I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
Universal Pictures