Expected it to be "okay". Adam Sandler movies can tend to be ridiculous -when he plays ignorant and unrealisticly stupid boneheads from time to time. I was kind of expecting that. But I was hoping for a couple of hours by myself so I got a movie I know there was no chance my husband would dare watch with me (not in a million years...) And I was so pleasantly suprised to be laughing out loud over and over again. I absolutely loved the light-in-the-loafers son. Especially when he beat up the bully at school. I about peed my pants. THAT was one of the best fight scenes in film history! Someone needs to clip that and turn it viral! If you're homophobic, you are going to be uncomfortable a lot in this movie. Not like Brokeback Mountain, but you may want to pass nonetheless. But if you've got a sense of humor and you're a normal human being -watch this.
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disappointing, could've been a really funny movie! There was just something missing, either chemistry between the two actors or timing. The preview was better then the movie!Read Best Reviews of I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (2007) Here
`I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry' went wrong in so many areas and disappointed on so many levels I really don't know what to say other than please stay away. Upon the closing I looked at my wife and uttered those words you never want to have to say after watching a film you were actually excited about seeing."They could have done so much better with this movie."
The truth remains that `I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry' could have been hilarious. While I'm not the biggest Adam Sandler fan I will admit to finding him funny on occasions, and Kevin James is just hilariously funny in my book. You throw in the gorgeous Jessica Biel and you have my undivided attention. Problem is that none of these three actors can help the script they were handed, and that script is an utter abomination. It's as if the writers of `Chuck and Larry' decided that instead of expanding their joke vocabulary so-to-speak they would instead use one vulgar joke over and over again. It wasn't funny the first time, so about the thirtieth time it's still not funny. That and the fact that none of this film is the slightest bit believable (and it could have been because it's not like the plot is all that impossible) make for a really disappointing experience.
So `Chuck and Larry' revolves around Chuck and Larry, two firefighters who pose as a `couple' so that Larry's children can receive the benefits of his pension should something happen to him. Larry is a widower who cares for his children and has yet to move on from the memory of his wife. Chuck is a jerk who lives a life that is so ridiculously unrealistic it made me roll my eyes in irritation. Upon their filing for `domestic partnership' they are immediately investigated and suspected of cheating the government so they hire a lawyer to help them avoid going to prison. This lawyer is the beautiful Alex McDonough whom Chuck immediately falls for.
`Chuck and Larry' falls apart again trying to be a message film. Films like `Chuck and Larry' are not here to make us think twice about discrimination and tolerance, they are here to make us laugh. Instead it spends a good three quarters of its length spitting out slur after slur expecting us to laugh and then changes its tune expecting us to believe that this experience has changed them (mainly Chuck since Larry was never that big of a jerk to begin with). Adam Sandler's humor in this film is just not funny at all and he irritated the fire out of me. Kevin James was better than Sandler but still failed to capitalize on what could have been a really funny film. Jessica Biel's character, especially her relationship with Chuck, is unbelievable and ridiculous to say the least. Alex must be the dumbest and most desperate lawyer in the world.
Dan Aykroyd has taken a huge fall from his `Driving Miss Daisy' days for his performances in the most recent of Sandler films has been nothing short of horrible. His humor is also not funny. Ving Rhames has a funny turn here, stereotypical (how can a movie chuck full of the most blatant of stereotypes insist on delivering a message) but funny none-the-less.
There are some funny sequences in the film, but they are few. The whole scene with Larry in the apple costume had me rolling and made up for the first half of the film somewhat, and the shower sequence had me giggling a bit, but all that aside there really is nothing to truly laugh at other than the same repetitive jokes. It's funny to see Rob Schneider play an Asian minister. I can't think of anything else really. I could never recommend this movie, which is sad because they really could have been smart here instead of predictable and created a truly hilarious comedy. I suggest you rent `Hitch' or watch reruns of `The King of Queens' instead, or rent Kevin James' stand up `Sweat the Small Stuff' because this movie offers very little while those suggestions are much more satisfying.
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I consider myself an Adam Sandler fan and have seen all his comedies except Little Nicky. The ingredients are there for another successful movie from the Sandler team. In I NOW PRONOUNCE YOU CHUCK AND LARRY, you have Sandler paired with two solid co-stars in the hilarious Kevin James and beautiful Jessica Beal. You have the trade mark childish, politically incorrect humor of Sandler. You have the usual great supporting cast of Sandler regulars Allen Covert, Steve Buchemi, Rob Schneider and Nicholas Tuturro. Ving Rhames and Dan Akroyd also star in limited roles.Okay, sounds like the movie should be funny, right? It is laugh out loud funny in many parts. Larry has lost his wife, and for some confusing reason, he needs a benificiary for his life insurance in case anything should happen to him while on the job. So, in order to ensure his kids have a bright future, Larry (Kevin James) does the only logical thing: talk womanizer Chuck (Adam Sandler) into being his domestic partner. Sounds easy enough, except the city of New York comes around investigating their relationship te ensure they aren't committing fraud. Much of the comedy comes from Sandler and James pretending to be gay to maintain the charade. It starts killing Sandler, when he becomes friends with a beautiful lawyer (Jessica Beil). He is falling for her, but must maintain the charade of being gay or else be thrown in jail for fraud.
While much of the movie was funny, in the end, it is crushed under its own weight of stereotypes and preaching. You see, instead of trying to be a comedy, it tried to also preach a message of tolerance. Social tolerance is a fine message, but not in a Sandler comedy. Regardless of your stance on the issues, you will find this movie offensive. In one scene, the movie showed vehement demonstrators protesting, one side a bunch of religious fanatics, the other side a bunch of extreme stereotypes of homosexuals. The movie also made light of a father dealing with a son who shows interest in singing and the theater instead of baseball, basically implying that his child was destined to be gay. Also, in every other scene, a character came out of the closet in response to Chuck and Larry's professed, but fake, love for each other. It was funny the first time, but grew old after the tenth.
In summary, this movie has some funny scenes, but it lost me when it started trying to preach. The movie could have focused on Sandler's relationship with Beil or James' moving on after the loss of his wife. Instead, it just kept throwing stereotypes of gays at us in hopes of being funny. Maybe calling this movie offensive isn't the right word, because that gives this movie too much credit. In the end, it just wasn't very good.
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