Critic Reviews
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75
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Miami Herald Connie Ogle
Funny in the juvenile, crass way we expect.
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63
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Boston Globe Wesley Morris
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.
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60
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The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
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.
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50
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San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub
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."
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50
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Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
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.
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50
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New York Daily News Jack Mathews
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?
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42
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Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
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.
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40
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Los Angeles Times Kevin Crust
Fails to deliver on its main promise of big laughs, which is the film's truly unforgivable sin.
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38
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USA Today Claudia Puig
A movie that gives marriage, homosexuality, friendship, firefighters, children and nearly everything else a bad name.
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25
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
No comedy this year can beat this dud for mealy-mouthed hypocrisy.
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10
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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.
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