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This movie falls far short of Sandler's recent film Click in both comedy and overall story. Some parts were actually so ridiculous that I felt myself cringing. Several of the actors seem miscast (Steve Busemi as an attorney attacking Sandler and James as being insurance frauds and Dan Ackroyd as the Fire Captain). Rob Schneider looked ridiculous as a minister marrying them.
Sandler's relationship with Jennifer Biels fall far short of Matthew Perry's relationship with Neve Campbell in a much superior movie call Three to Tango.
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review by arichards.
November 16, 2008
This absolutely hilarious comedy hit all the right notes with me. The soundtrack in particular would be any wedding singer's dream request line-up, and the actors are pitch perfect, obviously having had a lot of fun making the movie. In brief, Larry (Kevin James) is a widower with two kids (both of whom will remind you of Abigail Breslin in Little Miss Sunshine) who tries to short circuit the process of getting his insurance policy changed. Larry is a firefighter, and is … more
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It's crude and sometimes awkward, but there's a gleefully subversive movie lurking insideI Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry. By virtue of a tooth-grinding contrivance, two manly Manhattan firefighters, Adam Sandler and Kevin James, must move in together and pretend to be gay; after seeing life from the other side, they learn something about tolerance. Sandler is the obnoxious, aggressively offensive womanizer, while James plays a widowed dad worried about his effeminate son. Nothing is too surprising about the way this works out, except for the film's unabashedly gay-rights fervor. It's one thing for a sensitive art-house movie to preach to the choir, and quite another for Sandler to speak to his multiplex audience on how uncool it is to use a homophobic slur. Ham-handedly directed and almost proudly sloppy,Chuck & Larrywins points for remaining defiantly rude; a nicer movie wouldn't have been as effective. There's a hilarious supporting performance by Ving Rhames, and Jessica Biel brings her Kim Novak-style glamour to a truly unbelievable character. Rob Schneider and Richard Chamberlain (two names not generally brought together) are amusing in small roles.--Robert Horton
Cast:
Dan Aykroyd,
Steve Buscemi,
Jessica Biel,
Ving Rhames,
Adam Sandler,
Allen Covert,
Nick Swardson,
Kevin James,
Richard Chamberlain,
Nick Turturro,
Tila Tequila,
Jessica O'Donohue,
Becky O'Donohue
Director:
Dennis Dugan
Genre:
Comedy
Release Date:
July 20, 2007
MPAA Rating:
PG-13
Screen Writer:
Alexander Payne
Runtime:
1hr 55min
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