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Good Luck Chuck (2007)

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Average Rating: 2.8/10
Reviews Counted: 113
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 108

A shortage of laughs and an undercurrent of mean-spiritedness undermine Good Luck Chuck, squandering a decent premise on gross-out humor and shopworn slapstick.

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Average Rating: 2.7/10
Critic Reviews: 22
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 22

A shortage of laughs and an undercurrent of mean-spiritedness undermine Good Luck Chuck, squandering a decent premise on gross-out humor and shopworn slapstick.

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Average Rating: 3.3/5
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Movie Info

A serial dater afflicted with a lifelong curse of loneliness attempts to win the love of a clumsy but beautiful penguin expert in the one romantic comedy that proves true love never comes easy. As a ten-year-old boy, Charlie (Dane Cook), breaks the cardinal rule of spin-the-bottle by refusing to kiss a demented goth girl. Crushed by the disheartening snub and determined to ensure that Charlie never finds true love, the vengeful brooder places a hex on the cowardly rule breaker that follows him

R, 1 hr. 36 min.

Comedy

Josh Stolberg

Jan 15, 2008

$35.0M

Lionsgate Films

Cast

All Critics (114) | Top Critics (22) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (112) | DVD (10)

What isn't forgivable, though, is being boring, and Good Luck Chuck has all the engaging magnetism of an unflushed toilet.

January 15, 2008 Full Review Source: Film.com | Comment
Film.com
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Can we finally just admit that Dane Cook isn't funny?

September 26, 2007 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | Comment
Entertainment Weekly
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This is an unoriginal, dull-witted, juvenile, crude, offensive, idiotic and pointless romantic comedy that makes no sense. None.

September 25, 2007 Comment (1)
Ebert & Roeper
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Good Luck Chuck looks like the unscreenable bits of bad movies best forgotten retrieved from the cutting-room floor.

September 21, 2007 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment
Toronto Star
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It's worth mentioning for the third time that this movie is much closer to Caligula than Sleepless in Seattle.

September 21, 2007 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
San Francisco Chronicle
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Good Luck Chuck has laugh-out-loud moments, many more if you've never outgrown giggling at somebody saying a naughty word.

September 21, 2007 Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | Comment
Orlando Sentinel
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... a bit like being at an entertaining party ruined by a some obnoxious loud-mouths shouting obscenities.

July 5, 2008 Full Review Source: ESplatter | Comment
ESplatter

Whether or not you appreciate Dane Cook's spastic, hyperactive brand of observational humor, he cannot be held solely responsible for the unmitigated disaster that is 'Good Luck Chuck.'

April 9, 2008 Comment (1)
San Francisco Examiner

...comes off as the latest misfire from erstwhile comedian Dane Cook...

March 13, 2008 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | Comment
Reel Film Reviews

Apparently someone out there thought it would be a good idea to capitalize on American's love for penguins AND gross-out comedies.

March 3, 2008 Full Review Source: The Scorecard Review | Comment
The Scorecard Review

Because the jokes fall flat, the dialogue is dumb and the Swiss cheese script reads like an afterthought, the only logical conclusion is that all of the above is just a transparent excuse for a constant parade of topless females.

January 19, 2008 Full Review Source: Mount Desert Islander | Comment
Mount Desert Islander

A transparent excuse for a constant parade of topless females eager to assume a compromising position. The only thing missing was a cheesy porn soundtrack.

January 18, 2008 Full Review Source: EURWeb | Comment
EURWeb

A cesspool of irrational plot points and flaccid punch lines.

January 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Time Out New York | Comment
Time Out New York

It's all pretty lewd and crude, with excess and exposure and grotesque fat gags passing for humor.

January 17, 2008 Full Review Source: MSN.com | Comment
MSN.com

To paraphrase one of Chuck's girlfriends, this is a film that finds no shame in licking the sand off the balls of comedy.

January 15, 2008 Full Review Source: FilmStew.com | Comment

Good Luck Chuck is the cinematic equivalent to a sexually-transmitted disease. It starts out unnoticeable, then starts to itch a little bit, before finally burning and blistering.

January 15, 2008 Full Review Source: Bronsonfive | Comment

Raunchy in the extreme, Good Luck Chuck like its sexually jaded cavity expert, forlorn dentist Charlie, wants it both ways, juxtaposing Alba's lovestruck innocent with Cook's overcooked, reluctantly lusty flesh magnet.

January 11, 2008 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | Comment
NewsBlaze

Crude, vulgar and dispiriting to watch.

November 9, 2007 Full Review Source: This is London | Comments (2)
This is London
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Audience Reviews for Good Luck Chuck

[My predicted rating: 2.5]This one was a great surprise to me, I was all set to watch a passable RomCom, but this was definitely a funny, albeit pretty crude Comedy. Dane Cook (not heard of before) was of course the star of this film, it was easy watching, cringeable in parts, corny but quite original.

July 22, 2007
76Majikat

Super Reviewer

I watched this? I rated it but don't remember. Obviously a forgettable movie.

January 15, 2008
wildaly14

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