.......Chuck and Larry, managed to pull off the unexpected. It was the top grossing movie in the country for the weekend that brought us the 5th installment of Harry Potter and Hairspray starring John Travolta in Drag. That was a surprise to me too. Even though the showing we attended was 80% full on Saturday afternoon, I never expected Chuck and Larry to beat the competition.
The critics panned .........Chuck and Larry, with an average rating of 48/100. Comments ranged from, "USA Today Claudia Puig
A movie that gives marriage, homosexuality, friendship, firefighters, children and nearly everything else a bad name." to "Rolling Stone Peter Travers
No comedy this year can beat this dud for mealy-mouthed hypocrisy. OK, where were we? Oh, that's right, the number one movie in America for the weekend.
This movie was a simple, low budget, situation comedy with somewhat stale material that has been presented in other sit-coms before. However, anything with Adam Sandler is likely to do well. Add to that the appeal that Kevin James generated with his now retired show, King of Queens, and you have a winning box office formula. Jessica Biel is just the cherry on top.
Are the critics wrong? No. The movie is irreverent, shallow and politically incorrect. The movie is as they say it is, but it made America laugh. Sometimes critics carry the weight of the world's social moral order on their shoulders and feel that "laughs" obtained under "irreverent" circumstances should not be encouraged. Where were they when they reviewed Borat?
......Chuck and Larry, is a funny little comedy with Adam Sandler. It made us laugh. We are tired of political correctness. We were not insulted in any way. We give this movie 3-Stars.
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I was just surfing online to see what people thought about the new Adam Sandler movie. I actually saw it on opening day in Canada (which made it a little interesting being that there are many Canadians references). But for those who have thought about seeing it, I put a post, my opinion on the movie. In all honestly, I didn't think it was a bad movie at all, if you look beyond some aspects of the movie. But anyways if you are interested here's the link
http://skcvoyager.blogspot.com/2007/07/i-pronounce-you-chuck-and-larry.html
To respond to your post a little, I agree with the fact, I don't understand why people/critics want to put so much into a movie that was suppose to a comedy in the first place. And these are the same people that watch what Paris Hilton did last night on tv. But in my post that I wrote, I go through the many different themes that I got from the movie. It was way better than I had expected to be, honestly
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