Movie reviewer rips (Giuliani supporter) Sandler over his new movie.

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From Roger Moore of the Orlando Sentinel:

I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry is a pretend-to-be-gay firefighter's farce that is entirely too stupid and crude to tote its alleged "message" about tolerance through the flames to safety.

The tricky mission Adam Sandler, his writers and his go-to director, Dennis Dugan (Problem Child, Big Daddy, Benchwarmers and other classics), set out on is to take an audience moronic enough to roar at the gay slur that rhymes with "maggot" to a place where they're a little ashamed of ever having said that word.

But the movie is written and played in a way that rhymes-with-maggot is set up to get the big, bigoted laugh every time.

Pronounce presumes to puncture stereotypes even as it is trotting out every mincing, leather-clad sissy this side of Fire Island to reinforce those stereotypes.

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Sandler's ad-libs have the sting of an actor worried about his image and how this will play to his core audience. There's no newlywed kissing, thank you. A party is "homo-palooza" because "Gay guys know how to dance good. It's the law, or something."

Even the message is botched, utterly, in a finale that no one should have to face sober.

"There's nothing worse than pretending to be something you're not." In Sandler's case, that pretense would be "tolerant" and "hip."
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[Peregrine Took]

1. Its a shame to see Kevin James stoop to such depths. I think he is genuinely

a very funny guy, a modern day Jackie Gleason, but he has to stop doing junk like this and be much more selective about his movies. Maybe, like Gleason, he might even be able to move into serious roles. I think he could do it.

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2. I agree with you about Kevin James. nt

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3. Isn't his character wife on his show a crazy wing bat?

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5. Leah Remini is a Scientologist.

If that's what you mean.

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7. No you are thinking of the woman on Everyone Love Raymond

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8. You're right...sorrry

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4. I'm surprised that GLAAD seems to like this movie.

You can't have two messages. You can't keep gratituously using the "faggot" word for laughs and then tack on some message about tolerance.

Adam Sandler gave his fans another film they'll like. Too bad it traffics in stereotypes and cheap laughs.

[knowledgeispwr]

6. Meh.

I've never really been a fan of Sandler because his "humor" doesn't do much for me. I'm not surprised by this review. I heard about this movie before and it was enough to turn me off. It boggles my mind how they can claim this movie is about promoting tolerance.

I second the earlier posters that expressed disappointment in Kevin James for getting himself in this project.