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At first I thought this was going to be another Adam Sandler flop, but it turns out I was wrong. This comedy is about two straight firefighters who have been friends since childhood. Larry, played by King of Queens star Kevin James, was recently widowed and left to raise his annoyingly flamboyant son, and smart alec daughter alone. After realizing he failed to file the appropriate paperwork to make his kids his beneficiary, he concocked a scheme to pretend to be gay and marry Larry, played by Adam Sandler ("What are you looking at swan!"), for domestic partnership benefits. This starts out to be rather difficult, since
Larry, who previously saved Chucks life, begs him to do this. Chuck is a playboy, a ladies man, or as he calls himself, a whore, is reluctant.
Larry Valentine: Domestic partnership.
Chuck Levine: Domestic partnership? You mean like faggots?
Larry Valentine: No, I mean yea but, no, not us. Obviously. Just on paper.
Chuck Levine: Paper faggots?
(Source :Internet Movie Database)
The banter about being and not being gay is rather amusing, and after a light hearted debate, they decide to head off to Canada to get married.
[Chuck and Larry are about to get married in a Canadian chapel]
Chuck Levine: Would you wear a yarmulke? It would make my mother proud.
Larry Valentine: I'm not wearing a yarmulke. Come on.
Chuck Levine: I'm Jewish. I don't want to piss my mother off.
Larry Valentine: Yeah? Well, I'm Catholic. I don't want to piss Mel Gibson off.
(Source :Internet Movie Database)
The scene in the chapel is boosted ten fold by none other than Rob Schneider who plays the Asian minister. His character steals the scene. The alter scene is really funny especially since they have a hard time understanding the minister.
At first everything is fine until they fall under investigation for fraud. This leads to them having to live together, and be seen together. THey end up sleeping in the same bed, which is a problem for Larry since no one has slept on "that" side of the bed since his wife died. Larry plays upon this by pretending to be the voice of Larry's wife asking him why he let someone sleep there. For legal assiatance they turn to Alex, played by Jessica Biel. She believes they are gay, and is trying to help them with the investigation. Chuck ends up having a crush on her, and this leads to tension in the pretend marriage. The movie also includes Dan Aykroyd as their Fire Chief (Who has known them so long he knows they are not gay), Ving Rhames, Steve Buscemi and the usual assortment of "Happy Madison" movie regulars.
There is a lot of tension in the firehouse, especially in the shower. The "guys" tend to shy away from our duo. Overall the gay jokes play through out the movie. Larry's son Eric, played by Cole Morgen, is hysterically gay. Instead of watching sports, he's doing splits in the kitchen and singing musicals. Whether your straight or not, you'll get a kick out of the comedy. For a change, the trailers did not spoil ALL the jokes in the movie like in other comedies. The chemistry between Adam Sandler and Kevin James was outstanding, the likes of Chris Farley and David Spade (Who also makes an appearance in the movie.) They really worked well together, and within the first few minutes you truly believe they are best friends. This made the whole movie more believable.
The couple ends up going to court to prove they are gay. They are questioned as well as the children by the investigator played by Steve Buscemi (Armagedeon, Fargo). Upon almost proving their, um, gayness?, their Chief bursts into the courtroom, and announces that he knows they are not gay. He declares that since he knew about he is also guilty and should be put in jail. At this point all the fire fighters from their unit stand up and say that they knew also, and that if they throw Larry and Chuck in jail, they have to throw all of them in jail. Well, they all get thrown in jail.
The procecutor decides to make a plea deal, because Larry and Chuck, even though the city knows they are not gay, have become celebrities in the now rallying gay community. The movie does have a message of tolerance. In the begining Chuck is a little off about the whole homosexuality concept, but in the end he realizes that we should just accept people for who they are.
Final Thoughts : The movie has some great humor. The chemistry is fantastic, and if you can handle tasteful gay jokes, you'll really like this movie, because, it's like a ring.... (watch the movie and you'll get it)--The Gecko
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Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.
Chuck Levine (Adam Sandler) and Larry Valentine (Kevin James) are firefighters and true-blue buddies. When Larry, a widower, learns he cannot name his children as beneficiaries on his life insurance policy, he needs a big favor from Chuck: Sign on as Larry's domestic partner. The pals unexpectedly become front-page news and must carry the masquerade to extremes when an overzealous bureaucrat becomes suspicious of their true relationship.
