That’s offensive enough for me right there. People are going to leave the movie convinced that there is such a requirement for pension or health care benefits, and there isn’t any.
As I understand the movie’s contrivance from what I’ve gleaned from the frequent TV commercials, the King of Queens’ guy is trying to get health insurance or pension coverage for his own child, which he can do under all qualified American plans without resorting to the Adam Sandler gay fake marriage.
Trust me when I say you don’t wanna see mine no matter what your persuasion is! I didn’t have much before I lost weight. Now, 140lbs. later, I’m somewhere between an A and a B. Surely nothing to write home about, except possibly in the sens of “Oh, man, you shoulda seen that girls tits; way funnier than any Adam Sandler movie!” 
And in the end he will finally tell her that he’s not gay and how he feels about her. She’ll get mad and leave. He’ll be heart broken. Then after some music montage where she finds out he did it for all the right reasons she’ll take him back.
Fast forward a year to their wedding day where everyone is happy happy and we close with the reception getting underway and everyone is dancing. And Kevin James is dancing really, really funny.
I think I would rather watch “Master Of Disguise” TWICE again before seeing this…
but like Click, when it finally hits cable, I’ll probably turn it on, just to remind myself that there is, in fact, a hell.
It’s at 20% now.
But that’s only 5 reviews. It’ll sink like a stone when the real critics weigh in.
You’ve nailed one of the dumbest movie contrivances ever. Has this ever happened in real life? When someone says they have something to tell me, I want to know what it is, immediately. I don’t interrupt and say “ok, honey, but first, I just want to let you know what a great time I had last night and how thrilled I am that we’re going to be getting married and living a long and happy life together, now that you’ve decided once and for all to put your ex-boyfriend behind you and settle down with me. Now what was it you wanted to say to me when you approached me with that really worried look on your face?”
Posters for this movie are just plastered everywhere. I was walking down St. Mark’s Place a few days ago and saw one. On it, somebody had taken a Sharpie and written “HOMOSEXUAL PANIC IS FUNNY!”
I guess I can submit my screenplay for Pink Card now, which is based on Green Card. At least I *know *they do investigate these marriages when it comes to immigration.
Hilarity will ensue.
I’ve been trying to figure out the premise for this as well. From the previews here’s what I can figure out.
Kevin James wants to get the beneficiaries on his pension switched over to his kids.
Perhaps his ex-wife is a bitch and won’t sign the forms to switch the pension to the children as beneficiaries. So he needs to get re-married so that he can list Adam Sandler as the beneficiary because he trusts Adam Sandler to give the money to the kids. It’s Green Card meets Three’s Company and as such, hijincks ensue.
I have seen situations where your ex-spouse needs to relinquish beneficiary rights before you can change your beneficiary. So that could make sense. While I’ve worked both in insurance and retirement planning, I don’t know the particular laws governing New York where this film seems to be set.
This movie is just ripping off the premise of The Drew Carey Show, when Drew married Mr Wick so that he could become a United States citizen, and in return he gave Drew a promotion. There was even an episode where a hot woman came to the house to see if they were really gay.
What I don’t understand is why the heck they are promoting it so heavily. My only guess is they want to get whoever they can possibly hook to come in on opening weekend becasue there’s no chance that anyone walking out of the theater will say anything good about it.
When I saw the trailer in a New York City theater, laughs were notably absent, though there may be a bit of a Red State/Blue State divide here. In any event, this seems to me one of those types of movies in which virtually all of the decent laugh lines are put into the trailer.
And to all of those panting over Jessica Biel’s tits, I’m willing to bet that you won’t have to wait to rent it to see all you can get – the most you’ll see is what they’ve already shown in the trailer (and even on the TV commercials, for that matter).
To inject more research than this crapfest deserves, I looked up what the requirements for a New York City Domestic Partnership Registration (emphasis added):
A domestic partnership may be registered by two people who meet the following requirements:
Either both persons are NYC residents or at least one person is employed by the city of New York on the date of registration.
Both persons are eighteen years of age or older.
Neither of the persons are married or related by blood in a manner that would bar his or her marriage in New York State.
The persons have a close and committed personal relationship, live together and have been living together on a continuous basis. (Please note: As a practical matter this means both applicants must be able to truthfully state an identical residential address on the application form for the domestic partnership.)
Neither of them is currently a party to another domestic partnership or has been registered as a member of another domestic partnership within the last six months.
This local law recognizes the diversity of family configurations, including lesbian, gay and other non-traditional couples. Notably, this does not require that domestic partners be gay or in a marriage-like relationship – indeed it “recognizes the diversity of family configurations” – but merely requires that they be living together in a “close and committed personal relationship.”
Even if there were a requirement like that of Skammer’s company of living “as a married couple”, given the breadth and scope of legally recognized marital relationships out there, including marriages of convenience of various stripes, I doubt that the anyone would really be able get into whether two registered domestic partners living together actually had same sex attraction if they otherwise appeared to be in a “close and committed personal relationship.”
Indeed, New York seems to realize that “as a practical matter” the only thing they can really check in this area is whether the domestic partners are living at the same residential address. This, of course, points out the absurdity of sending out an inspector to examine Chuck and Larry’s “gayness.”
More so, in what universe is that appropriate for an inspector employed by a government agency (the City, the Fire Department or who knows)?
I was shocked by this as well, and I love Election & Sideways, which Payne co-wrote with Jim Taylor, who is also credited on INPYC&L.
There is a 3rd writer, though: Barry Fanaro, whose greatest claim to fame was a few seasons of The Golden Girls. Yup, a 20-year old sitcom.
I can only guess P&T wrote a version ages ago, the skeleton of which still remains (at least enough for the WGA to give them co-credit), but otherwise completely altered by innumerable “touch-ups” and “fixits” to better suit its 2 stars. The trailer is as bad as any I’ve seen this year, so I can’t imagine there being anything good about it (except that the residuals from the film will allow P&T to make an actual good film from the proceeds). Yikes.
With all due respect, under ERISA I don’t think ex-spouses have any say whatsoever over their ex’s beneficiary designations. CURRENT spouses have a say so, in that the current spouse has to consent in writing to another person being designated as the beneficiary. The only exception would be if the ex was awarded the pension in the divorce, in which case the point is moot because the pension would be the ex’s now and not Kevin James’ anyway. YMMV.
I’m prepared to wager that Chuck and Larry will be preferable to losing a toe in a blender accident.
On the bright side, he does have the larger breasts of the two.
Good one 
You are right. I wasn’t remembering it correctly. In the situations I was thinking of the couple was still legally married but were separated. Sorry for my foggy memory.
But will penis?
I think we all know the answer.
Hey, at least Rob is 1/4 Asian; he does have Mickey out-chinked, however narrowly.
Not that that will save this film from being the worst movie of the year. :mad:
Meh, I bet it will be better than a colonoscopy. Had to co-opt a line from C&L for that one. :o