I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (Combo HD DVD and Standard DVD) |
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starring: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Jessica Biel, Ving Rhames, Steve Buscemi directed by: Dennis Dugan  List Price: $26.98 Amazon.com's Price: $24.49 You Save: $2.49 ( 9%)as of 09/02/2010 19:24 EDT Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: HD DVD Brand: Universal Pictures EAN: 0025193240422 Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen Item Dimensions: Label: Universal Studios Home Entertainment Languages: Manufacturer: Universal Studios Home Entertainment MPN: 24042 Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Universal Studios Home Entertainment Release Date: November 06, 2007 Running Time: 115 minutes Studio: Universal Studios Home Entertainment Theatrical Release Date: July 20, 2007 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Universal Pictures I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (Combo HD DVD and Standard DVD) 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 hispension. 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. Amazon.com: 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 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Shades of Drew Carey and Mr. Wick!!!The genius of this flick is how it turns stereotypes on their head. The film is rife with cliche, scatalogical humor, and superstition but therein lies the rub. By resorting to stereotype the flick exposes the misunderstandings between people of different sexual orientations and fosters empathy, if not respect, for each other. It also helps they've employed blue-collar icons Adam Sandler and Kevin James as our conduit. If memory serves this film received something of a lukewarm response from the critics and methinks there is a little elitism on their part. Most films that tackle homosexuality are geared toward that specific audience so in essence they are preaching to the choir. By casting two actors with mainstream appeal the message is transmitted to a larger audience so the end result is "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry" can impact more people than "Brokeback Mountain". Not a perfect film but one with earnest goals that succeeds on a certain level. Rating: - Pretty good movie!Adam Sandler and Kevin James (THE KING OF QUEENS) provide big laughs in I NOW PRONOUNCE YOU CHUCK AND LARRY, an uproariously funny comedy that, though not terribly concerned with being politically correct, will make you laugh in spite of yourself. Sandler is Chuck and James play Larry, best friends and firemen who have seen each other through everything, including the death of Larry's wife. After a recent brush with death in a bad fire, Larry becomes concerned that his current insurance benefits will not properly provide for his children in the event of his death and learns that the only way he can properly provide for his children is to enter into a domestic partnership with Chuck, where they would pretend to be gay lovers and actually marry. Laying aside the fact that I can't imagine two heterosexual men ever doing this in real life, it does lay the groundwork for one of the funniest comedies I have seen in years. Gay stereotypes are perpetuated at every turn but there is nothing mean-spirited about it making the incredible premise plausible. Also thrown into the mix are Larry's son, whose interests seem to be limited to tap dancing, baking, and auditioning for the school musical, and a pretty attorney (Jessica Biel) who catches Chuck's eye but unfortunately he has to conceal his feelings about her. Mention should also be made of a hilarious supporting turn from Ving Rhames as a fellow firefighter who is inspired to come out of the closet, after being inspired by Chuck and Larry's relationship. Primarily, it is the inspired comic teaming of Adam Sandler and Kevin James that makes this one work. Rating: - Much better than I expectedI saw this movie yesterday with my boyfriend, my best friend, and another male. Several minutes into the movie I turned to my best friend and whispered "What have these guys dragged us to?" and rolled my eyes at the movie that I assumed would be another hour and a half of male oriented comedy. I was way wrong. Half an hour into the movie my sides hurt from laughing, and by the end I couldn't stop smiling at not only the humour, but the surprising good moral taught by this movie. What begins as lame humour accompanied by nearly naked women, quickly turns into a heart-warming comedy about friendship and the definition of love. Not to say it doesn't still have a fair bit of goofiness and humour, because there's definitely a lot of that too; hilarious movie in my opinion. I ended up being so glad we had chosen to attend this movie. When I saw the previews weeks before I hadn't even considered going to see it, but now I'm happy I did. Hilarious movie, great actors, and a cute message hidden underneath, what more could you ask for? Rating:  - I now Pronounce you Chuck & Larry.Funny movie but with an Agenda. It's pretty obvious what type of bias a hollywood movie would have.it's disappointing that Adam Sandler would be in this movie. Still thought it was funny despite it's liberal view on "acceptance." Rating:  - I Now Pronounce You Chuck and LarryLoved this movie when I saw it in the movie theatre. Had to own it. Adam Sandler and Kevin James are my two favorite comics, so what would a movie be like with the two of them starring in it? Awesome and soooo funny. Great movie. I particularly liked the ending where Lance Bass was in it I loved him in NSync. Great, great movie four thumbs up. Michelle Dunn 
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