Critics Scoreboard
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Average Critic Score:
37
(33 sources)
37
(33 sources)
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Village Voice
Tremendously savvy in its stupid way, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry is as eloquent as "Brokeback Mountain," and even more radical. Read Full Review » -
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Boston Globe
Broad and badly made but sporadically inspired, "Chuck and Larry" is still an amazing improvement over "License to Wed," this month's other wedding comedy. Read Full Review » -
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The Hollywood Reporter
The curious thing here is that Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor rewrote this long-in-development screenplay. Yet the authors of such smart comedies as "Sideways," "About Schmidt" and "Citizen Ruth" can't move the film away from the world of easy laughs and sitcom jokes into a realm where sexual prejudices and presumptions get examined in a whimsical yet insightful manner. Read Full Review » -
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Variety
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. Read Full Review » -
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LA Weekly
If nothing else, Chuck & Larry should open up a whole new career path for the ineffably funny, unselfconsciously buck-naked Ving Rhames as an übermacho firefighter who's been sitting on a little secret of his own. Read Full Review » -
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Washington Post
Essentially, Chuck & Larry is an oafish chance for audiences to laugh at gay-bashing jokes and then feel morally redeemed for doing so -- courtesy of an obligatory wrap-up scene that reminds us that homosexuals are humans, too. Read Full Review » -
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ReelViews
There's nothing here to appreciate for anyone who isn't a Sandler fan and, unfortunately, too little even for those who have dubbed themselves lifelong supporters. Read Full Review » -
50
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
It's kind of like "Tootsie," only without the drag. Or the class. Or the laughs. Read Full Review » -
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New York Daily News
Directed with his usual flair for the obvious by Dennis Dugan ("The Benchwarmers), "Chuck and Larry" has the nowness factor of a Polish joke. Does anybody laugh at this stuff anymore? Read Full Review » -
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Philadelphia Inquirer
The moral of this crude, intermittently funny Adam Sandler comedy costarring the reliable Kevin James is that: It's OK to be gay, it's not OK to call someone a faggot, and it takes a real man to admit he loves his man pal. Read Full Review » -
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Newsweek
If only the laughs were bigger, smarter and more frequent than they are. Read Full Review » -
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San Francisco Chronicle
Despite the fact that the movie covers some new cinematic territory, much of the humor feels recycled, mostly from the "Seinfeld" episodes "The Boyfriend" (the one where Jerry has a man crush on Keith Hernandez) and "The Outing." Read Full Review » -
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The New York Times
Sporadically funny, casually sexist, blithely racist and about as visually sophisticated as a parking-garage surveillance video. Read Full Review » -
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Portland Oregonian
The troubling thing about "Chuck & Larry" is the hypocrisy. It's a comedy that ridicules the people it's supposed to be championing. Read Full Review » -
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Salon.com
With its tepid gags and faltering pacing, may not be a very good movie. But at least, within its clumsiness, it strives for some kind of solidarity. Read Full Review » -
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Somewhere between its loutish humour and laudable sentiments are the traces of a good buddy movie that could, at the very least, have been harmless summer fun. Read Full Review » -
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The Onion (A.V. Club)
If it doesn't look ridiculous now, try watching it again in a decade or three. Then it'll be funny for all the wrong reasons. Read Full Review » -
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Entertainment Weekly
Myself, I felt victimized by the stereotype shtick of reliably grating Rob Schneider as a Canadian-Japanese wedding-chapel minister from SNL castoff hell. But maybe that's just because this movie encourages sensitivity by hitting everyone over the head with its humor hammer. Read Full Review » -
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Los Angeles Times
Fails to deliver on its main promise of big laughs, which is the film's truly unforgivable sin. Read Full Review » -
38
USA Today
A movie that gives marriage, homosexuality, friendship, firefighters, children and nearly everything else a bad name. Read Full Review » -
38
TV Guide
In what can only be described as a throwback to the awkward "gay" farces of the 1970s and '80s -- think "The Ritz" and "Partners -- this painfully uncomfortable buddy comedy trips all over itself to say something positive while still managing to offend. Worse still, it's just not funny. Read Full Review » -
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Wall Street Journal
In under two hours, the synthetic, insufferable I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry manages to insult gays, straights, men, women, children, African-Americans, Asians, pastors, mailmen, insurance adjusters, firemen, doctors -- and fans of show music. That's championship stuff. Read Full Review » -
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Film Threat
So remarkably free of laughs I might as well have been watching John Wayne Gacy's home movies. Read Full Review » -
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Chicago Reader
More than anything Chuck and Larry shows just how flaccid American movie comedy has become now that "Saturday Night Live" has replaced vaudeville as our comedy college. Read Full Review » -
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Austin Chronicle
A movie full of weak moments, contrived to the point of painful. Read Full Review »
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