Yes, he's the stereotypically Asian guy, officiating the ceremony between the two male leads so they can take advantage of a tax break (because "gay" and "tax break" are two words that Washington so loves to put together. Oh to be gay and in America, where the government doesn't persecute you in the slightest!).
I thought we'd all learnt the lesson from Mickey Rooney's character in Breakfast in Tiffany's. I thought this shit wasn't acceptable anymore. I thought Chuck and Larry looked appalling to begin with, but add this to it and it seems to be nothing more than a celluloid hate crime.
Say what you will about comedians like Sarah Silverman, who go out of their way to be offensive, but at least her offensiveness has a point. She's adopting a persona to lampoon both bigoted attitudes and the people who think they're above having them. Her entire character - and it is a character - is to mock banal, middle-brow, hate-filled shit like this.
No doubt Chuck and Larry has some run-of-the-mill message of acceptance at the end of its nearly two-and-a-half-hour (!!!) running time, but that just doesn't wash. It's like Shallow Hal; you think spending an entire movie ripping an under-represented minority to shreds is okay if you turn around at the end, smirk and say "Just kidding! Fags/fatties/Asians are awesome! They're just like us!"? Bullshit! Peddle your bigotry-in-sheeps-clothing somewhere else!
On a slight tangent, Masi Oka (aka Hiro from Heroes) proves himself even more of a hero by coming down on this sorry excuse for a film. Let's all hope this is the role that finally wakes people up to the fact that Rob Schneider ISN'T FUNNY; he's an irrelevant dumbarse who's been costing on SNL goodwill for way, way too long.
So endeth the rant.
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Damn Right Butler!
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