I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
Universal Pictures | Release Date: July 20, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
37
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 33 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
18
Negative:
12
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Miami HeraldConnie Ogle
Funny in the juvenile, crass way we expect. Read full review
70
Village VoiceNathan Lee
Tremendously savvy in its stupid way, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry is as eloquent as "Brokeback Mountain," and even more radical. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeWesley 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. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterKirk 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. Read full review
60
VarietyBrian 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. Read full review
60
L.A. WeeklyElla 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. Read full review
60
Washington PostDesson 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. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames 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. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
The film is half rutting goat, half preacher. Read full review
50
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
It's kind of like "Tootsie," only without the drag. Or the class. Or the laughs. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsJack 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? Read full review
50
San Francisco ChroniclePeter 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." Read full review
50
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
Sporadically funny, casually sexist, blithely racist and about as visually sophisticated as a parking-garage surveillance video. Read full review
50
Portland OregonianLisa Rose
The troubling thing about "Chuck & Larry" is the hypocrisy. It's a comedy that ridicules the people it's supposed to be championing. Read full review
50
SalonStephanie 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. Read full review
50
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. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie 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. Read full review
50
NewsweekDavid Ansen
If only the laughs were bigger, smarter and more frequent than they are. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyLisa 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. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubScott 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. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesKevin Crust
Fails to deliver on its main promise of big laughs, which is the film's truly unforgivable sin. Read full review
38
USA TodayClaudia Puig
A movie that gives marriage, homosexuality, friendship, firefighters, children and nearly everything else a bad name. Read full review
38
TV Guide MagazineKen 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. Read full review
38
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
Plays like some uninformed seventh-grader's view of gay men. Read full review
33
Baltimore SunChris Kaltenbach
Formulaic 'Chuck & Larry' is a crass, unfulfilling effort. Read full review
25
PremiereAaron Hillis
So go on, pay your ten bucks and get your hate on. Read full review
25
Rolling StonePeter Travers
No comedy this year can beat this dud for mealy-mouthed hypocrisy. Read full review
25
New York PostKyle Smith
The movie isn't insulting to homosexuals but to comedy. Read full review
10
Wall Street JournalJoanne 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. Read full review
10
Film ThreatPete Vonder Haar
So remarkably free of laughs I might as well have been watching John Wayne Gacy’s home movies. Read full review
0
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
Comedy that seems designed to be as bad as it can be. Read full review
0
Austin ChronicleToddy Burton
A movie full of weak moments, contrived to the point of painful. Read full review
0
Chicago ReaderJ.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. Read full review
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