I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007)
Average Rating: 3.6/10
Reviews Counted: 156
Fresh: 22 | Rotten: 134
Whether by way of inept comedy or tasteless stereotypes, I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry falters on both levels.
Average Rating: 3.8/10
Critic Reviews: 39
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 34
Whether by way of inept comedy or tasteless stereotypes, I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry falters on both levels.
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When two testosterone-fueled firemen attempt to register as domestic partners in order to bypass the bureaucratic red tape preventing one of them from naming his own two children as his life-insurance beneficiaries, their low-key ruse turns into headline news in this quirky matrimonial comedy starring Adam Sandler and Kevin James. Chuck Levine (Sandler) and Larry Valentine (James) are two New York City firefighters whose longtime friendship has endured many a five-alarm fire. All that widower
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Adam Sandler
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Kevin James
Larry Valentine -
Jessica Biel
Alex McDonough -
Dan Aykroyd
Captain Tucker -
Ving Rhames
Duncan -
Steve Buscemi
Clint Fitzer -
Nick Turturro
Renaldo Pinera -
Allen Covert
Steve -
Richard Chamberlain
Councilman Banks -
Nick Swardson
Kevin -
Dave Matthews
Lingerie Salesman -
Tila Tequila
Hooters Girl -
Jamie Chung
Hooters Girl -
Jessica O'Donohue
Donna -
Becky O'Donohue
Darla
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All Critics (160) | Top Critics (39) | Fresh (24) | Rotten (140) | DVD (27)
There is something to be said for a movie that may end up preaching, for a change, to the unconverted. If only the laughs were bigger, smarter and more frequent than they are.
Top CriticThe premise is older than the pilot for Three's Company, and just as unfunny.
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.
With a tacked-on PC message and leaden attempts at humor, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry is a movie that gives marriage, homosexuality, friendship, firefighters, children and nearly everything else a bad name.
Chuck and Larry remains something close to remarkable: an Adam Sandler movie that manages to be crude and caring in equal measure. In the multiplex, this is called progress.
For the most part, I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry plods along predictably, well-intentioned but only sporadically entertaining.
While it's very easy to eviscerate Chuck and Larry from an activist point of view, all one really has to do to slam the flick is look at the lazy, contrived writing and the traffic-cop direction by frequent Sandler accomplice Dennis Dugan.
Displays considerable heart
The film won't be remembered as a classic, but rather a standard release among a slew of Adam Sandler comedies.
If you ever wanted to know what drew people to minstrel shows, just ask the people who liked this movie.
What truly makes [the film] so detestable is its disingenuous attempt to justify itself with a tacked-on call for acceptance of all people and lifestyles.
They could have focused more on the similarities of best friends and a gay couple. Instead, they just try to offend everyone in sight and then act sorry at the end.
You know a movie is going to be bad when Rob Schneider shows up as a Chinese wedding chapel minister. No, come to think of it, you know a movie is going to be bad when Rob Schneider shows up at all
Above all the idiotic shenanigans and brutally offensive conversation, Chuck & Larry is flat-out a badly made movie.
As complex as a garden-variety sitcom...
One of the year's most stunningly feeble offerings.
The worst thing about this DVD is that there are a lot of extras. The best thing is that they're mostly at least quite brief.
So insensitively executed that it deserves to be dismissed as a mean-spirited indulgence in homophobia. Not only are gays
Audience Reviews for I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
Super Reviewer
The story is kinda cool, two men pretending to be gay is always a show stopper haha and there are some good moments like Sandler slapping James' face and James pretending to love it, but nothing special. Just the usual, predictable lines and ending really, stick with 'King of Queens' and some of Sandlers earlier films where his everyman portrayal is at its original best.
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- Chuck Levine: Why do all people think I'm the woman?
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