August 10, 2007
i now pronounce you chuck and larry
There are basically two flavors of Adam Sandler movies:
1) the earlier ones, where certain juvenile male failings maintained into adulthood (aggression, rudeness, stubbornness, bad taste in music) are revealed, when set against calculating maturity, to be virtues that adults should have maintained (passion, forthrightness, loyalty, authenticity); and
2) the later ones, which are exactly the same except, by virtue of a contrived scenario of responsibility (sudden fatherhood, corporate leadership, marriage), the juvenile failings/virtues are revealed to actually be the constituents of adulthood.
This movie is of the latter variety. It also has an incredibly extensive set of mechanics to get the audience to accept without much attention the idea that Adam Sandler is not just desirable but an infinitely magnetic stud. Which pretty much tells us all we need to know about the status of fantasy in the narrative.
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