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(1 - 38) of 38 OFCS Rating: 16% Rotten Page   1   "'Chuck & Larry' steps into some fairly daring territory, but it has to be mentioned how flatly the film falls on its face in the attempt."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   A. J. Hakari C- "In the proper hands this could have come off as genuine, but under the direction of Dennis Dugan and the empire that is Adam Sandler, it's just a vehicle for cheap shots, reusable jokes, and tired clichés."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark 1/5 "I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry is not as hilarious as it thinks it is, profound as it pretends to be, or tolerant as it intends."   PopMatters   Bill Gibron B "Chuck & Larry is a clumsy comedy, made with heartening intentions, but a little wobbly in execution. But you know what? It isn't Click, and that's something to celebrate."   eFilmCritic.com   Brian Orndorf 1.5/5 "could be lightly described as flippin' horrendous"   Filmcritic.com   Chris Cabin "Ving Rhames gets it in a way that Adam Sandler never will."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 1/5 "Above all the idiotic shenanigans and brutally offensive conversation, Chuck & Larry is flat-out a badly made movie."   eFilmCritic.com   David Cornelius B+ "The seditious accomplishments of "Chuck and Larry" may be entirely lost on millions of Sandler fans, who will squirm through their laughter and ultimately come to understand what intolerance feels like."   EDGE Boston   David Foucher 2/4 "As complex as a garden-variety sitcom..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 1.5/4 "So much of it hinges on depicting a person's gay lifestyle as a punchline that the third act's aim for political correctness feels hypocritical and dishonest."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman 2/4 "The film is pro-gay but it's less interested in collapsing straight-male hang-ups about gay men than is in putting on a surprisingly mawkish show of political correctness."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez C+ "Plays on male fears of women and homosexuality so well that you'd think the movie had been made by actual 15-year-olds."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 0/4 "Chuck & Larry is such an abysmal stab at comedy on every conceivable level that I wish there was a hate group we could join to protest it."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress "What truly makes [the film] so detestable is its disingenuous attempt to justify itself with a tacked-on call for acceptance of all people and lifestyles."   DVD Review   Felix Gonzalez Jr. "Displays considerable heart"   CinePassion   Fernando F. Croce D "A match made not in heaven, but in the sort of studio script conference that turns every idea into mass-market mush."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 2/4 "It's a shock to the system when this example of puerile comedy turns into a pulpit-pounding sermon. The film's sledgehammer approach makes it more immature than earnest."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 1.5/5 "The makers of Chuck & Larry probably think they've accomplished something meaningful, but what they've really done is make a gay Soul Man."   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 0/4 "I Now Pronounce you Chuck and Larry isn't just unfunny; it's racist, sexist and homophobic -- and truly unpleasant to watch. ... I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry practices exactly the kind of intolerance it preaches against."   CBS 5 (SF Bay Area)   James Rocchi 6/10 "Click here to read review"   sumno.com   Jaroslav Vishtaljuk 2/10 "An arranged fiasco that should have been annulled back in the planning stages"   Screen It!   Jim Judy "Something's out of whack when Rob Schneider -- as an Asian caricature running a wedding chapel north of the border -- gives the best performance."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   John P. McCarthy 2/5 "Den ehoyn adiko osoi apokaloyn ayton ton gamo anorimotitas kai sygkratimenis epanastatikotitas, tainia gia ta dikaiomata ton gay, ftiagmeni gia omofobikoys eterofylofiloys. Giati oso ki an paleyei na yperaspistei tin apodohi toy alliotikoy deihnontas tin"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis 2/4 "... a guarded comedy too gun shy to take its concept to the zany, over-the-top heights fans of Sandler have come to expect."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 3/5 "a gay rights film aimed at homophobic heterosexuals"   Film School Rejects   Kevin Carr C+ "wants to appeal to fans of Billy Madison with its homophobichetero jokes while sucking in The Wedding Singer crowd with its tolerancemessage and 'softer-side-of-Sandler.'"   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 1/3 "El humor de Sandler es cada vez más cansino. En esta ocasión se ha de hacer pasar por homosexual para ayudar a un amigo, y de nuevo tiene la gracia en el culo"   Off-Off-Critica   MalaBesta 0.5/4 "When the movie finally attempts to have a redeeming message, it's not as much a case of trying to eat your cake and have it too as it is trying to walk with your foot jammed firmly in your mouth."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik "Can the occasion of overgrown-fratboy goofball Adam Sandler and resolutely vanilla sitcom dad Kevin James in fagface be anything other than an invitation to laugh at icky queery flamboyant homos?"   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 1/4 "This film is made for less discerning tastes; that is, for those viewers to whom a running gag that has Sandler sitting in kid-sized chairs that inevitably break from under him is the pinnacle of hilarity."   TheMovieReport.com   Michael Dequina 1.5/4 "I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry revels in gay stereotypes and allegedly funny uses of derogatory words, then tries to squeeze out a pro-tolerance message at the end. The whole thing rings as insincerely as an Isaiah Washington apology."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan C "its mild pleasures are spoiled by its belief that homophobic humor can be somehow sanitized by a cheesy Shylock-ripoff speech about how it's who we are as people that really matters. As if."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow D "One of the year's most stunningly feeble offerings."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager .5/5 "... so remarkably free of laughs I might as well have been watching John Wayne Gacy's home movies."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar 1/5 "In fact, I can pretty much guarantee that this is the worst film playing at a theater near you this weekend, even if your local multiplex has held over "Captivity" for a second week. . ."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski F "Pro-gay? Don't make me laugh, Happy Madison. I wouldn't want you to break the streak."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux C "It's kind of like "Tootsie," only without the drag. Or the class. Or the laughs."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker 5/10 "Raunchy, testosterone-driven Adam Sandler comedy with a relevant message about tolerance and acceptance."   www.susangranger.com   Susan Granger  (1 - 38) of 38 OFCS Rating: 16% Rotten Page   1