Live Life Team
I have mixed feelings about this movie. It’s a story of two fire-fighters, Chuck and Larry, who are your typical macho guys. They are men’s men and the farthest from gay America that you could ever imagine. However Larry, who was recently widowed (played by Kevin James) has a problem that he needs help with. He asks his friend Chuck (played by Adam Sandler) to give him a hand by posing as his gay lover so that he can get domestic partner benefits, and thus health insurance for his two kids. His buddy agrees with the plan and the movie takes off from there.
There are some hysterical scenes, such as the one where an official bureaucrat comes knocking on their door and Chuck and Larry must present the picture of perfect marital bliss. There are scenes with the children who can’t seem to understand what this is all about, and why their dad and their Uncle Chuck have to suddenly start acting differently than they’ve ever seen the two behave before.
The film seems to have taken too much advantage of cracking jokes at the expense of the gay community, and it sometimes seems to make light of a very real plight that gay couples deal with, that of obtaining domestic partner benefits that are so necessary in today’s gay marriages.
But I do have to acknowledge that the acting is first rate, and there are also some great supporting actors who appear in this film, such as Dan Aykroyd and Steve Buscemi.
I enjoyed the film, but was somewhat disappointed in the manner in which some sensitive issues were made light of.
