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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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
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