Movies We Hate That We’ve Never Seen: I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
20 July 2007, 5:30 PM. By Cindy Casares
The reviews are in for Adam Sandler and Kevin James’ new movie “I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry” and shocker! They’re overwhelmingly bad. Apparently homophobia doesn’t play well with film critics. Go figure. But one writer has a more original reason for tiring of the “drop the soap” jokes (yes, there’s actually a soap-dropping scene in the movie):
The two comics have an easy intimacy, and share the same sweet look every time they catch each other’s cross-camera gaze. It’s cute to see — but a disaster for the movie because the whole premise is that Chuck and Larry are so straight, so massively heterosexual, so incredibly obsessed by the opposite sex that the very idea of them together as a gay couple is supposed to equal a laugh riot…after watching the gag for close to two tediously long hours, they’re not only a convincing couple, you kind of hope they get together for real by the finale.
That is so hot.
Review: I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry [Canada.com]
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Heteros playing gay is as unfunny as whites wearing blackface. There’s a fundamental disconnect between an oppressed minority and the oppressor that no amount of humor can sanitize. In reality the jokes are burdened with a tacit homophobia that makes the whole exercise unpalatable to most of the moviegoing public. This would have probably been funny as a YouTube short, but a movie treatment is a joke. And not a funny one at that.
Then there’s the problem of the protagonists. I haven’t laughed at a Sandler joke in about 11 years. Kevin James (who?) seems to be regurgitating the same joke in every role. And Rob Schneider is scraping the lowest level of slime for a few gags.
Hollywood is dead. Long live Noelia’s chocha!
Of the three you mention, Rob Schneider is the only one who can redeem a low-brow comedy role. But that aside, I tend to agree with your assessment, Bosrican.