By Ryan Parsons | Images property of Universal Pictures.
I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
A couple official reviews for I
Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry have appeared online and, though they claim that the film plays it safe with sitcom gags around the topic of homosexuality, admit that the film should do stellar at the box office.
Official Reviews: I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
Any comedy concerning a controversial topic is going to have its critics. Take for instance the first two official reviews for I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. Though both critics seemed to have liked the film, they were both hoping for more 'GAY'.
Variety
Relentlessly juvenile and awash in stereotypes, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry is 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. Kevin James and Adam Sandler hardly approach that standard, and it will be slightly depressing if a barrage of schoolyard gay jokes passes for "edgy" a quarter-century after "Victor/Victoria." Taken for what it is, pic should find its sweet spot somewhere between the easily offended and very easily amused, providing Universal with a modest summer tryst.
The Hollywood Reporter I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry is a "gay" comedy created by straights who want to have it both ways: Hit the audience with a barrage of homophobia and gay jokes yet wind up with an ecumenical, politically correct embrace of all points of sexual orientation. It's the equivalent of that old Jerry Seinfeld bit where he mentions someone is gay but quickly adds, "Not that there's anything wrong with that." We even get the film's star, Adam Sandler, summing up what he has learned from his experiences pretending to be gay: Don't use the word "faggot," he lectures. It's hurtful.
Production values are strong, though the film lacks visual panache.
Check out the full reviews for I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry by clicking the bold links above.
I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
opens to theatres on July 20th.
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