Chuck Levine and Larry Valentine are the pride of their fire station: two guy's guys always side-by-side and willing to do anything for each other. Grateful Chuck owes Larry for saving his life in a fire, and Larry calls in that favor big time when civic red tape prevents him from naming his own two kids as his life insurance beneficiaries. But when an overzealous, spot-checking bureaucrat becomes suspicious, the new couple's arrangement becomes a citywide issue and goes from confidential to front-page news. Forced to improvise as love-struck newlyweds, Chuck and Larry must now fumble through a hilarious charade of domestic bliss under one roof. After surviving their mandatory honeymoon and dodging the threat of exposure, the well-intentioned con men discover that sticking together in your time of need is what truly makes a family.

It’s time. Heck it might have been time three or four years ago. What am I speaking of, it time for Adam Sandler to either cast off the silly man-boy persona in his films or for him to retire that’s what I am speaking of. There was a time in Hollywood when the likes of Sandler and Jim Carrey ruled the comedic landscape of Hollywood films and when those films were actually funny but that time has passed. Jim Carrey realizes it and has moved on and he has made several great films outside the genre he once ruled like Eternal Sunshine but Sandler just refuses to let go and move on. I am beginning to think its because he has nothing else to offer even though he has made much more exceptional movies like Reign Over Me and Punch Drunk Love. Movie like that show that maybe he does have something else to offer, so why is it then that we have to sit through dreck like I know Pronounce you Chuck and Larry almost every year. Why he is still making such low brow, not very funny movies like this, and why are we still being tricked into seeing them.

I blame the screenwriters just as much as I blame Sandler, maybe even more so. If you could think of every single gay cliché and then throw it into a movie, would you, should you. I mean it’s like they sat down and threw gay clichés at each other and then laughed them silly. The movie is terrible in this right and has been done so many times before, did they interrupt their cliché brain storming party to toss in movies like Boat trip. I mean the screenwriting was some of the poorest I have ever seen and it amazes me that there is studios and execs greenlighting such obvious garbage. The film has its funny moments but most of those were captured in it’s trailer and from the get go the movie became a train wreck.

As much as I think Sandler needs to move on not necessarily retire, the director Dennis Dugan needs to retire or be thrown out of Hollywood. How he has a job is beyond me, this movie was an absolute disaster as is most of his directing career. Benchwarmers, National Security, Beverly Hills Ninja, Brain Donors, Problem Child the guy has amassed probably one of the greatest crap fest resumes in cinema ever. And unlike famously bad directors like Ed Wood his films aren’t so bad they are good, they are so bad they are just bad. If you were giving the choice of five years in prison and kissing your best friend who happens to be of the same sex, would you not do so with gusto not the fake I am hetro I am kissing like I am 12 years old way portrayed in the film. And not only that nobody seems to notice in the film the obvious fact that they puckering up like they are about to share their first kiss like they were 12. Its bad directing, its transparent and its stupid.

The casting of this film must have been done out of pity, as in wow it’s so sad David Spade can’t get any film time anymore lets see if he’ll wear a tutu and sadly he does. Once prominent actors like Dan Aykroyd, Ving Rhames and Steve Buscemi all lower their standards to find one last paycheck. Although in the case of Steve Buscemi he may have been the only character that seemed truly homosexual which is ironic as he is the only one in the film that isn’t suppose to be gay or pretending to be gay. I think maybe Dugan and the screenwriters should have talked to a few people from the gay community before going ahead with the film rather that trying to pass clichés off as humor. The film is not worth the time it took to watch it, just watch the trailer over and over for an hour and a half and save your money.

Grade: D+