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I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (Widescreen Edition)
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List Price: $19.98
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Manufacturer: Universal Pictures
Starring: Adam Sandler, Kevin James
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Universal
EAN: 0025193226822
Format: AC-3
Label: Universal Pictures
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Pictures
Release Date: 2007-11-06
Running Time: 116
Studio: Universal Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 2007-07-20
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Editorial Reviews:
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Adam Sandler and Kevin James star as best friends and fellow firefighters Chuck and Larry, the pride of their Brooklyn fire station. Chuck owes Larry for saving his life. Larry calls in that favor big-time by asking Chuck to pose as his "domestic partner" so his kids will get his pension. But when a fact-checking bureaucrat becomes suspicious, the two straight guys are forced to improvise as love-struck newlyweds. Jessica Biel, Ving Rhames and Dan Aykroyd co-star in this hilarious comedy.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Funny
Comment: This has got to be the funniest movie I have seen in a long time. Adam Sandler and Kevin James were funny but Vhing Rhames had me in stitches. A must see.
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Summary: It is not hilarious.
Comment: I've always laughed watching Adam Sandler's movies, specially "The Wedding Singer" which I regularly see again and again. In this new movie, (I watched it on cable, so it's new for me) Larry (Kevin James) is his firefighter friend who happen to save Chuck (Sandler) during a fire mission. In return, Larry asks his friend a difficult favour (according to Chuck's point of view as he is a womanizer). He has to pretend to be his friend's gay partner. They have to prove for a Government agent they are happily married, so Larry's children continue with him and receiving domestic benefits. By the way, Larry has been a widower for three years.
The two actors try to make this situation funny but I found it to be dull and offensive. I'm straight, however I don't like to see anyone to be rididularized, either straight, gay, lesbian... Everybody has the right to live his/her life and that's it. Only in the end, they finally understand to be democratic and learn by themselves the meaning of prejudice. Anyway, I give three stars because I really like the two actors.
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Summary: Good Cast
Comment: 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.
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Summary: Just the usual Adam Sandler comedy
Comment: 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.
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Summary: ridiculing the intolerant
Comment: 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.
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