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| I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (Widescreen Edition) | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 106 reviews)
Sales Rank: 5324
Category: DVD
Actors: Adam Sandler, Kevin James
Publisher: Universal Pictures
Studio: Universal Pictures
Brand: UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAIN.
Label: Universal Pictures
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 116 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 025193226822
UPC: 025193226822
EAN: 0025193226822
ASIN: B000VXWX7E
Release Date: November 6, 2007
Theatrical Release Date: July 20, 2007
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Product Description
Adam Sandler and Kevin James star as best friends and fellow firefighters Chuck and Larry the pride of their Brooklyn fire station. Chuck owes Larry for saving his life. Larry calls in that favor big-time by asking Chuck to pose as his "domestic partner" so his kids will get his pension. But when a fact-checking bureaucrat becomes suspicious the two straight guys are forced to improvise as love-struck newlyweds. Jessica Biel Ving Rhames and Dan Aykroyd co-star in this hilarious comedy. System Requirements:Running Time: 116 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: PG-13 UPC: 025193226822
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It's crude and sometimes awkward, but there's a gleefully subversive movie lurking inside I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry. By virtue of a tooth-grinding contrivance, two manly Manhattan firefighters, Adam Sandler and Kevin James, must move in together and pretend to be gay; after seeing life from the other side, they learn something about tolerance. Sandler is the obnoxious, aggressively offensive womanizer, while James plays a widowed dad worried about his effeminate son. Nothing is too surprising about the way this works out, except for the film's unabashedly gay-rights fervor. It's one thing for a sensitive art-house movie to preach to the choir, and quite another for Sandler to speak to his multiplex audience on how uncool it is to use a homophobic slur. Ham-handedly directed and almost proudly sloppy, Chuck & Larry wins points for remaining defiantly rude; a nicer movie wouldn't have been as effective. There's a hilarious supporting performance by Ving Rhames, and Jessica Biel brings her Kim Novak-style glamour to a truly unbelievable character. Rob Schneider and Richard Chamberlain (two names not generally brought together) are amusing in small roles. --Robert Horton
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 ridiculing the intolerant June 26, 2008
Firefighters Chuck (Adam Sandler) and Larry (Kevin James) are best friends. Chuck is a very single womanizer; Larry is a widower with two kids who never dates. When Larry finds out that since he didn't update his paperwork soon enough after his wife's death, his kids won't be able to get his pension if something happens to him (yeah, I found that a little hard to swallow, too, but what the heck--the reason isn't the point), he comes up with the idea of posing as a gay couple--the new relationship would give him a bureaucratically-approved reason to change his paperwork.
The city official in charge of such things is suspicious, and investigates them, and they hire a lawyer (Jessica Biel) to help them out.
In the meantime, they have to deal with Chuck's withdrawal from his addiction to women, which isn't helped any by his attraction to their lawyer, and discrimination from their fellow firefighters.
Dan Ackroyd is fabulous as the fire chief, and Ving Rhames as a firefighter inspired to come out of the closet by Chuck and Larry's example is over-the-top but good-naturedly funny.
This is, I think, a good example of how expectations affect enjoyment of a movie. I expected goofy, low-brow humor, and I found Chuck and Larry better than I'd expected. The friendship between the two men was realistic and poignant, and there was definitely a message of tolerance. Both of them, and their firefighter pals as well all end up better people at the end of the movie.
However, this movie is in no way meant to be the defining movie of LGBT rights. It's not a serious movie. It's not about gays in general. It's about these two friends. And on that level, it succeeds very well.
And in fact, it also succeeds in its message of tolerance--in the same way that Blazing Saddles (30th Anniversary Special Edition) tackles racism: by ridiculing the intolerant.
So bad you have to see it to believe it. June 21, 2008
The gay stuff is predictable and mostly tired, but the hefty side platter of sexism and racism will leave your jaw on the floor. Who ARE the people that make these things and WHAT were they thinking??? It's so poorly crafted, it's kind of enjoyable as a bad film. On the Showgirls 1 to 10 scale, (1 being Hush, 10 being Showgirls) I'd give it a healthy 7 for enjoyable badness.
The cast looks miserable and embarrassed and the dark circles under their eyes seem to indicate they know they are working on damaged goods. Steve Buscemi is actually kind of OK and is able to make something of the stupid, stupid, stupid script, that had to have been written by a 7th grade junior high class from 1986. Dan Aykroyd speaks and moves quickly through his scenes, surely hoping that if his part is brief, no one will have noticed him. Alas, I did.
 WARNING: THIS FILM CONTAINS DIRTY JOKES AND PRO-G@Y PROPAGANDA May 26, 2008
6 out of 17 found this review helpful
I now pronounce you a morally bankrupt nation.
Why would I go see a movie when I KNEW ahead of time that it would be liberal propaganda? Because I'm MAN enough to do it!
Being a normal, healthy, VD-free man that loves women, I wasn't worried about the liberal propaganda affecting me. The only thing that bothered me was being in such a confined area with all the sickos that see this kind of movie.
"Look, it's two straight guys pretending to be g*y! And look, now they're in a g*y parade! It's funny! Yuk yuk yuk." That's your typical audience member of "Chuck and Larry."
The movie starts out with the weakest premise ever hack-written in Hollywood, to wit, Larry misses the filing deadline to change his beneficiary from his late wife to his kids. That's the catalyst for this movie, a man accidentally forgets to file paperwork. As weak as this is, it can't compare with the absolute ridiculousness of his solution: pretend to be another man's g*y lover!
A Barrack Obama biography takes less willing suspension of disbelief to believe than does this drivel!
This alone was enough to make me hate it but things went from bad to worse. As you may have guessed, every joke in this movie is a g*y joke or a sex joke, obviously because that's the only kind of humor that a person who would enjoy this type of movie would be able to understand.
Then there is a scene where various nude men and women are feeling each other up in the shower. The camera zooms in on various unclothed body parts. I ran outside and looked at the marquee: Rated PG-13. I just sat on the stoop and sobbed a bit before summoning up the courage to reenter this sinful display of sinners.
Even further supporting my position that this movie is pure filth, is the scene where Chuck and Larry rescue an obese man from a burning house. You are not going to believe this. The three of them end up falling down the steps and when they reach the bottom, the obese man and Chuck are in the 69 position and the obese man farts in his face! This is the kind of low-grade filth young liberals revel in.
Think that's bad? The movie then goes on to degrade women by showing Tori, Larry's girlfriend, on the john! Then a man upside down in a vent claims he just peed in his own face.
Would you believe that after all these crimes this movie has perpetrated that it is also racist!? Rob Schneider, in Asian guise, presents numerous Asian stereotypes that made my Japanese girlfriend cry! That's right being a normal man, I have a girlfriend. I can't wait until we're married and can have normal, loving intercourse.
The movie goes on to insult an even more broad-range of groups by portraying ministers as intolerant of g*y people, and then advocates violence against ministers by having Larry punch them!
This movie is truly an abomination against normal people everywhere and should be avoided like the plague. Unless, that is, you are a liberal in which case you will say things as: "Do me next Larry, do me next!"
This movie is nothing more than liberal pro-g*y-marriage propaganda!
 Best Adam Sandler EVER! May 24, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I laughed my butt off all through this movie.
Adam Sandler and Kevin James together = Hilarious.
I don't think there was a dull moment in this entire movie.
DON'T LET THE KIDS SEE IT! Definately not subject matter that kids should be seeing.
I've watched pretty much ever Sandler movie that's come and this is by far the funniest one yet. He's outdone himself this time in comedy. The wedding scene has to be the best part of the movie "That's how we roll" I must have hit rewind a good 5 times before I could finally hear what he said after he lets it fly because I was laughing way to hard and so was everyone else in the house.
HD Quality: 5 stars, simply great video, I don't recall much of any grain or bad video in the movie.
Sound - Id say 5 stars, crisp and clear through the whole movie. Music was exceptionally clean and crisp.
Maddie's review April 7, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
By: Maddie Embree
This movie is absolutely hilarious, but yet at the same time touching peoples hearts with the brother hood between the main characters Larry valentine, (played by Kevin James) and Chuck Levine, (played by Adam Sandler). The life lesson of this movie is a good friend will go to the end of the world and back to help a friend. Although it is hysterical, there is one scene that completely over did the whole family movie title. If you have seen this you should know exactly what I'm talking about. If you haven't you will as soon as you watch this movie. This scene takes place in the lawyers house after a so called "girls day". In this scene the lawyer (played by Jessica Biel) changes in front of chuck who is only pretending to be a homosexual. I feel like some of the younger kids might have not need to see that. I know they rated it PG-13 but it's not like they aren't going to watch it sometime. One of the funniest scenes takes place at the party when Chuck and Larry meet the lawyers brother Kevin (played by Nick Swardson). As they are leaving a group protesting against homosexuality surrounds them. Chuck decides is trying his hardest to make them leave but they will not. As the chuck and his group were leaving the man calls them "fagots". Chuck walks back and asks, "what did u just call me"? and the man decides to say it to his face through a mega-phone. Chuck turns around as if he is walking away and then turns sharply turns and punches the man to the ground. This is an excellent movie to show your older children to teach them the lessons of what being a good friend is all about. I would say the ages appropriate for this movie would be 12 and up. Well I do not want to give any thing else away. If u have not seen it, it is a must to have on DVD. That is why I enjoyed this movie.
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