Adam Sandler: 5 Awesome Performances and 5 That Sucked

4. I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007)

This particular Adam Sandler vehicle has even less shine than the piece of s**t car that he himself sang about back during his earlier career. Sandler plays Chuck Levine, a boisterous and outrageously testosterone fuelled (sound familiar?) fireman who gets married to Kevin James€™ Larry Valentine for reasons so predictable and pathetic that even they themselves seem to have trouble convincingly portraying them. At this point, Sandler just seems to be appearing in whatever drops on his desk, whether it€™s funny or not; the proof litters his career but Chuck and Larry is arguably one of the strongest pieces of evidence. Here, Sandler is€well, he€™s just Sandler. There€™s no extra layer or further depth than that. He does what he always does, in the same way that he always does it and doesn€™t even seem to care that you€™re being ripped off the price of admission. Movies like this make it seem like all Sandler actually cares about is maintaining his yearly exposure quota and lining his bank account with unearned bucks.
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