ADAM SANDLER PROVES SOME LIKE IT SILLY
I NOW PRONOUNCE YOU CHUCK & LARRY |
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| In Theatres: | July 20, 2007 |
| On DVD: | TBA |
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| Reviewed by: | Louis B. |
| Official website: | www.chuckandlarry.com |
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What can I say?
I find Adam Sandler funny.
Well at least 80% of the time. There was that Little Nicky fiasco.
Sandler’s comedy I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry is pure guilty pleasure.
It’s silly, crass, outrageous and sexist but it’s also really funny if you just go along for the ride.
The plot is as improbable as plots get.
Chuck Levine (Sandler) and Larry (Kevin James) are the straightest of straight New York firemen.
They’re also the best of buddies and an unbeatable pair of dedicated firemen.
Larry who hasn’t gotten over the death of his wife is raising a son and daughter.
Chuck is bedding entire cheerleading squads.
Then Larry discovers he failed to fill out the proper forms to ensure that his children will be taken care of by the city of New York should anything happen to him.
The only way he can make this happen is to remarry which he doesn’t want to do or pretend Chuck is his domestic partner.
Yes, those two straight dudes have to pretend to be gay.
Writers Barry Fanaro, Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor look to that Billy Wilder classic Some Like It Hot for inspiration.
In that one two straight guys had to pretend to be women and hide their real identities and male feelings from Marilyn Monroe.
In this case it’s Jessica Biel that’s in the dark about the two new people in her life.
She plays the lawyer who defends Chuck and Larry when mean-old city inspector Steve Buscemi starts going through the guys’ garbage to expose their fraud.
The scene in which Sandler and Biel have a “girls day out” is as hilarious as it is contrived.
Ving Rhames has a surprising turn as the scary new guy in the fire station.
There isn’t a subtle moment in the entire film even when it is dishing out its moral but that’s what we’ve come to expect from Sandler and his producing, writing and costarring buddies.
As I watched the hefty Kevin James having such carefree fun with this nonsense, I wondered what he would have done with the drag role John Travolta has in Hairspray.
