I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
How to lie and cheat for your benefits when you didn’t do the right thing and put in the paperwork from the slapstick and almost funny Adam Sandler and Kevin James.
Film making 5/25
Cinematography 5/25
Audio 10/25
Bonus Features 3/25
Total 23/100
My sense of wonder at Adam Sandler has hit an all new high in this film where two fire fighters try to solve the problem of not doing the right thing at the right time. Adam Sandler is at an all time low and Kevin James has never really thrilled me as a comedian so when you toss in the Adam Sandler usuals this film is another not worth bothering with.
Chuck played by Adam Sandler and Larry played by Kevin James are best of friends and New York City firefighters who realize their potential as perpetrators of fraud. Larry has a problem that only his best friend can solve when he is late in filing his paperwork after his wife dies for his own benifits.
Larry is denying his wife’s death and does not submit his benefits paperwork after she dies so when the city is talking about his kids never getting his own benefits he panics. Larry convinces Chuck to pretend they are married so if something should happen to him Chuck will be able to take care of Larry’s kids and receive his benefits.
Throughout the film they try desperately to open people’s eyes to the opportunities that fraud can bring about like pretending to marry for death benefits. Using same sex marriage as a way to commit this fraud is just not funny and having several people look up to the happy couple is just not right nor funny in the way that they portray it.
Adam Sandler as the womanizing swinger and Kevin James as the loving father are two opposites in the film but not in their comedic style which has really been left out. Both do not do enough in the film or bring enough to the table as comedians to revive this film above a slapstick routine at times and as a lame effort to engage our sense of right and wrong in the system for the main theme.
Adam Sandler has a pretty strict routine in films with inviting Rob Schneider to have some part in his films and director Dennis Dugan at the helm of this tugboat. I Now Pronounce You is a disaster of a film and the comedy is stale and boring for the most part with only an occasional chuckle or laugh.
The film plagiarizes repeatedly from other films with the usual stereotypes of racism and gays that you groan through from start to end. The film does nothing to help or hinder the understanding of same sex couples or any other stereotypical ideas that are trampled on throughout the movie.
I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry is a mess and adding Rob Schneider as a Chinese wedding chapel minister would not be enough to save this disaster of a film. I really think this is one movie that should not have even been transferred to Blu-ray as it just is not worth even renting.
The video and the audio is pretty decent to almost being average but again with a film that is not worth watching why bother going on about the quality of the technical aspects. There are also some very thin additional features on the Blu-ray edition like a couple of audio commentaries but nothing else.
I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry is not really worth bothering with and the Blu-ray edition is not even worth purchasing.