The script calls for as many lazy gay jokes as possible as the two try to cultivate a "gay life" together, with James becoming dismayed watching his son express interest in auditioning for Pippin, while the two buy a slew of "gay" things to affirm their relationship (Q-Tips for some reason, alongside copies of Brokeback Mountain, Liza Live, Barry Manilow II, The Best of the Village People, and Wham!'s Make it Big). So they enlist a lawyer (Jessica Biel), who has woefully little to do other than provide exposition and make Sandler's horndog misogyny even more evident. As it's a same-sex marriage, the arrangement requires investigators to make sure that what James and Sandler are doing isn't happening. After discovering his children can't be named as beneficiaries on a life insurance policy unless he's married, he marries Sandler. After a near-death experience, James realizes just how important it is for his kids to be taken care of should anything happen to him. The film finds Kevin James as a widowed, single dad and Sandler as his best friend.
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It's a time capsule from a not-too-distant American past-one liberals likely thought they'd buried until last November. Racist jokes abound, most egregiously with Rob Schneider's performance as a Chinese wedding minister Adam Sandler objectifies and dehumanizes nearly every woman who appears in the film the plot itself is wall-to-wall gay panic humor. It's an Adam Sandler film through and through, in spite of screenwriting credits from Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (whose script was given a heavy, uncredited Sandler "polish," prompting Payne to distance himself from the project). The comedy-in which Adam Sandler and Kevin James lead as Boston firemen who construct a sham marriage for insurance reasons-is downright hard to sit through.
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But if used as a bellwether for what flew just ten years ago, I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, ten years old this July, is a good reminder of exactly how far we've come.