Comments on: Movies We Hate That We’ve Never Seen: I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry http://guanabee.com/2007/07/movies-we-hate-that-we%e2%80%99ve-never-seen-i-now-pronounce-you-chuck-larry/ Spicy Coverage: Gossip, media, culture and lifestyle for Latinos. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:11:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Biggie Smalls http://guanabee.com/2007/07/movies-we-hate-that-we%e2%80%99ve-never-seen-i-now-pronounce-you-chuck-larry/#comment-615 Biggie Smalls Mon, 23 Jul 2007 06:52:09 +0000 http://guanabee.com/wordpress/?p=458#comment-615 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. 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.

]]> By: Bosrican http://guanabee.com/2007/07/movies-we-hate-that-we%e2%80%99ve-never-seen-i-now-pronounce-you-chuck-larry/#comment-614 Bosrican Sat, 21 Jul 2007 04:11:41 +0000 http://guanabee.com/wordpress/?p=458#comment-614 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! 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!

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