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If I am reading Ms. Zacharek's review correctly, "Chuck and Larry" is a boring, unfunny movie (most movies with Adam Sandler ARE, after all) with lame jokes and unbelievable characters and situations -- but that's OK because the film promotes the politically correct affirmation of gay marriage.
So now films can be poorly written and comedies completely without laughs, as long as they promote "correct social values". Ouch! This from a film critic? That's pathetic. I'd expect it from a dreary gay studies professor at a left-wing university, but a film critic is supposed to tell you if a MOVIE IS ANY GOOD. Not if the movie is "good for you".
If Right Wing Christian Conservatives have not got their panties in a twist over this lame comedy, is it possibly because it's simply not any good, and that hardly anyone will watch it (besides die-hard Sandler fans, and who can explain THEM?), and it won't have the slightest influence on any national debate over gay marriage? Because it's stupid and unfunny? Hmmm. Just wondering.
The idea that you should watch bad movies because they promote "correct social values" sounds so awfully Soviet and totalitarian. They don't even crank this stuff out in the Russian Republic or PRC anymore.
If the concept of gay marriage has merit, and wide public support (debatable), then would we have to be force-fed loud, laugh-free, PC harangues about it?
I am not offering this as a critique of the actual film, which I have not seen, but of Ms. Zacharek's review, which is pitiful and which Salon should have been too embarrassed to print. A dishonest film critic with a political agenda, who recommends bad films because they advance a political cause that she supports, is worse than having no film critic at all.
