I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry A Movie Review	MPAA Rated - PG-13 It's 1:40 Long A Review by The Dude on the Right

"I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry" stars Adam Sandler as Chuck and Kevin James as Larry. Chuck is pretty much a horn-dog, while Larry is still devastated from the death of his wife over a year ago. They are also firemen in New York City. It seems that in his year of mourning, and not quite yet into afternoon, Larry forgot to change the beneficiaries on his pension plan to his kids and now it seems the only way to accomplish this is to get married again, transfer the plan to his wife, then get divorced and now transfer the plan to his kids, or something convoluted like that. But since Larry isn’t really looking for love, and since he recently saved Chuck’s life, he convinces Chuck that a domestic partnership would help him out. Chuck agrees, but when the city begins to investigate their "marriage" they have to act gayer than they originally planned. They also go in search of a lawyer to help them keep the investigators at bay, said lawyer being Alex (Jessica Biel). Chuck now has a problem because he thinks he has found his true love, Alex, but can’t pursue the relationship because, well, she believes he is gay and he must keep pretending to be gay.

And so we get a lot of bad, gay jokes, Chuck and Larry starting to find out how gay men are outcast from the normal "dude" things in society (like being in a Boy Scout troupe, coaching a Little League team, or shooting hoops with the guys), with a lesson in social tolerance supposedly learned by all at the end.

Gosh, I would like to say this movie had potential, but really it didn’t, unless I suppose they tried to make this movie from a more serious side instead of trying to be the "Billy Madison" of learning about homosexual tolerance, but then who would really want to see the movie? The jokes are simple, like after their co-firemen learn Chuck and Larry are "gay" there’s a "dropping the soap" scene in the firehouse shower area, or how "faggot" isn’t an appropriate word to call gay people, or the gay postal worker telling Larry, if he wants an afternoon fling, things like he handles packages with care, will even enter through the back door, and yet with the jokes comes the inevitable "learning" about life in general.

My niece said she liked the movie, and I probably would have liked it a little more if I weren’t so insecure wondering what kind of pig my niece probably thought I was, especially when Chuck was feeling Alex’s boobs, or when Chuck had all of the hot waitresses at his apartment, and I was wishing I were Chuck. The lady behind us also seemed to get a kick out of the movie and let the entire theater know about it during every scene.

Some will find this movie hilarious, others might find it offensive, and I probably would have liked it more had I went to see it with my nephew rather than my niece. Averaging everything out I’ll give "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry" 2 stars out of 5. It’s a comedy in the Adam Sandler vein, just not as inventive as he used to be. All I know is that the next time my niece wants to see a movie, I’ve got to get back to taking her to see the horror genre, even if I've already seen the movie.

That’s it for this one! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!