It tries to be a sappy love story, an incredibly vile gross-out comedy and an envelope-pushing soft-core porno movie all at once. It ends up being an unappealing abomination.
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09/20/07
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Good Luck Chuck (2007)
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Reviews Counted:109
Fresh:5
Rotten:104
Average Rating:2.9/10
Consensus: 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.
Theatrical Release:Sep 21, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $35,000,629
Synopsis: Standup comedian Dane Cook (EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH) stars in this romantic comedy as Charlie Logan, a successful dentist cursed with the affliction of having the women he dates fall in love with the... [More]
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Reviews for Good Luck Chuck
There's an audience out there for this kind of thing, but if this is what passes for funny, what in the world of comedy doesn't qualify?
09/20/07
[A] fetid romantic comedy...In short, if it weren't for bad Luck then the chump Chuck wouldn't have any cinematic luck at all.
09/20/07
While only 96 minutes runtime, it felt far longer, prompting me to check the time repeatedly. Not a good thing for a romantic comedy.
09/20/07
Tony-winner Dan Fogler, as Cook's childhood friend, is embarrassingly foul, and even criminally cute Jessica Alba is wasted, playing Cook's painfully clumsy gal pal/penguin nut in this alternately warm and ugly ball of whacks.
09/20/07
The makers of this shameful waste of celluloid have padded their work with fat jokes, homophobic jokes, gratuitous nudity and various bodily functions, while harboring a fundamental hatred for women.
09/20/07
Does [Cook] want to lose the hip, smart 20- and 30-somethings his comedy routines are aimed for and become a sort of second-rate Adam Sandler attracting teenagers who giggle like Beavis and Butt-head at shots of naked women and disgusting jokes about sex?
09/20/07
Top Critic...there's an opening scene...that's little more than kiddie porn, leaving an ugly tast thereafter.
09/20/07
When a film has as much going for it as Good Luck Chuck did at the onset, and the magic is flying, it is positively heartbreaking to watch it all deteriorate by way of such glaring condescension.
09/20/07
The film is some sort of humor-deprivation experiment.
09/20/07
Top CriticDane Cook plays a dentist in Good Luck Chuck... Having had braces, three tooth extractions, three bone graphs, and three dental implants, I can say with relative ease that none of that was as painful as watching this pathetic waste of celluloid.
09/20/07
Somebody please stop Dane Cook before he becomes a movie star.
09/20/07
Telemarketers should target fans of the movie because anyone who can buy Cook as a good-hearted dentist who travels to Guatemala to help sick children will buy anything.
09/20/07
Some movies are so scummy that after watching them you feel the need for a shower; after sitting through this one, you might think a scouring pad is in order.
09/20/07
...wants to position itself as a first-date movie, but it's a first-date movie for those who don't believe in second ones.
09/20/07
The final screenplay is as devoid of real emotion as it is of real characters.
09/20/07
Top CriticDespite a strong cast, the filmmakers squander a clever premise for a series of unoriginal, cheap jokes.
09/20/07
a lot of dirty-minded snickers, but not as many genuine laughs as you might have hoped for.
09/19/07
Gross. Exactly what the target demographic wants and gets.
09/19/07
Just when you think things can't possibly get worse, they do. And then some.
09/18/07
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