The Phoenix Network:
 
 
About  |  Advertise
Adult  |  Moonsigns  |  Band Guide  |  Blogs  |  In Pictures
 
Features  |  Reviews
FIND MOVIES
Find a Movie
Movie List
Loading ...
or
Find Theaters and Movie Times
or
Search Movies
Nominate-best-2010

I Now Pronounce You Chuck + Larry

Mainstream gay-marriage endorsement
By TOM MEEK  |  July 24, 2007
2.5 2.5 Stars


VIDEO: Watch the trailer for I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry.

Who knew that Adam Sandler had a political movie in him? As NYC firefighter Chuck Levine, he bashes a gay basher, preaches intolerance, and attempts to defraud the city by posing as the fem half of a same-sex couple. The scam’s for a good reason. Chuck’s “marital partner,” Larry (King of Queens’s Kevin James), wants to set up his recently motherless children as the beneficiaries of his pension, but a bureaucratic snag. . . . The set-up may be tedious poppycock, but the pay-off has its charms, including a couple of raucous weddings in same-sex-marriage-friendly Canada, Jessica Biel as a sex object, and Ving Rhames as a bull moose raging to burst out of the closet. After all, it is an Adam Sandler vehicle, with director Dennis Dugan and a team of writers (including Alexander Payne of Sideways fame) on board to rearrange the furniture. As weird as it sounds, the Sandlerization of gay marriage is a mainstream endorsement.
Related: A Jihad for Love, Strange bedfellows, Review: Paul Blart: Mall Cop, More more >
  Topics: Reviews , Celebrity News, Entertainment, Culture and Lifestyle,  More more >
  • Share:
  • Share this entry with Facebook
  • Share this entry with Digg
  • Share this entry with Delicious
  • RSS feed
  • Email this article to a friend
  • Print this article
1 Comments / Add Comment

admin

i disagree with the 2 and a half stars, it deserved a way higher rating than that.
Posted: July 24 2007 at 6:34 PM
HTML Prohibited
Add Comment

ARTICLES BY TOM MEEK
Share this entry with Delicious
  •   REVIEW: EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES  |  January 27, 2010
    Most parents would go to great lengths to save a child in peril, but would they find a cure for a terminal disease?
  •   CAMBRIDGE FINDS IT AIN'T EASY BEING GREEN  |  January 13, 2010
    The hype leading up to the United Nations Climate Change Congress in Copenhagen last month reached near tsunami proportions, but in the end, the gathering went out like a neap tide.
  •   LET'S GET RAW  |  December 16, 2009
    Couldn't score a seat at the Climate Change Conference underway in Copenhagen, but still want to reduce your carbon footprint? Perhaps you need to eat it raw.
  •   REVIEW: ARMORED  |  December 09, 2009
    In view of its credentials, Armored should be a lay-up.
  •   DOCUMENTARY MAN  |  December 09, 2009
    If you think the polemic salvos Michael Moore churns out define the modern documentary, you've either succumbed to Moore's manipulative shenanigans or are unfamiliar with the works of Frederick Wiseman. No disrespect to the Roger & Me director, he is what he is — a man with a camera and a handful of pixie dust.

 See all articles by: TOM MEEK

MOST POPULAR
RSS Feed of for the most popular articles
 Most Viewed   Most Emailed 



  |  Sign In  |  Register
 
thePhoenix.com:
Phoenix Media/Communications Group:
TODAY'S FEATURED ADVERTISERS
Copyright © 2010 The Phoenix Media/Communications Group