Metacritic Movie Ratings
I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 60

  out of 100

  VarietyBrian Lowry

  The kind of buddy comedy Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau might have starred in 40 years ago, when the material would have felt less dated, if no less silly.

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• 60

  out of 100

  The Hollywood ReporterKirk 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

  out of 100

  The New York TimesManohla Dargis

  Sporadically funny, casually sexist, blithely racist and about as visually sophisticated as a parking-garage surveillance video.

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• 42

  out of 100

  Entertainment WeeklyLisa 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

  out of 100

  Los Angeles TimesKevin Crust

  Fails to deliver on its main promise of big laughs, which is the film's truly unforgivable sin.

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• 38

  out of 100

  USA TodayClaudia Puig

  A movie that gives marriage, homosexuality, friendship, firefighters, children and nearly everything else a bad name.

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• 10

  out of 100

  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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