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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.

Rated: R

Runtime: 1 hr 41 mins

Genre: Comedies

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... 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 next guy they meet. After a 1985 flashback reveals how, as a child, Charlie came to be hexed, the film finds the grown bachelor taking advantage of his predicament. Because he's never really loved any of the women he's dated, it doesn't hurt much when they leave. But when rumors start circulating that sleeping with Charlie is a lucky love charm, Charlie's popularity reaches new heights that even he, an experienced ladies' man, cannot keep up with. And this luck couldn't come at a worse time, as Charlie's just met his dream girl, penguin zookeeper Cam (Jessica Alba). Perhaps in Charlie's favor is the fact that Cam, despite her beauty and brains, happens to have a hex of her own--extreme clumsiness. Everywhere she goes, minor disaster quickly follows. Will Charlie be the next casualty of her accident-prone charm? While GOOD LUCK CHUCK revolves mainly around a sweet and simple romance, it contains enough one-liners to amuse fans of Cook's standup routine. Though conversations between Charlie and his plastic-surgeon best bud Stu (Dan Fogler) are almost all about sex, the dynamic between Cam and her brother (played by 30 ROCK's Lonny Ross) is slightly more offbeat. The film's sex-driven humor leads to a surprisingly graphic sex-scene montage between Cook and a string of women eager to sleep with him if it means they'll find true love immediately afterwards. [More]

Starring: Dane Cook, Jessica Alba, Dan Fogler, Lonny Ross

Starring: Dane Cook, Jessica Alba, Dan Fogler, Lonny Ross

Director: Mark Helfrich

Director: Mark Helfrich
Screenwriter: Josh Stolberg
Producer: Mike Karz, Barry Katz, Brian Volk-Weiss
Composer: Aaron Zigman
Studio: Lions Gate Films

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If you like slapstick, see it.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Insiders | comment Comment
09/29/07
Eric Lurio
Eric Lurio
Entertainment Insiders

If you’re expecting something smart from Dane Cook, you’re out of luck.

Full Review Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch | comment Comment
09/22/07
Joe Williams
Joe Williams
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The movie goes out of its way to be offensive, even by today's standards. The interesting thing is that it does it in an otherwise charming romantic comedy that's actually funny.

Full Review Source: Sydney Morning Herald | comment Comment
10/26/07
Paul Byrnes
Paul Byrnes
Sydney Morning Herald

Gross. Exactly what the target demographic wants and gets.

Full Review Source: FilmsInReview.com | comment 33 Comments
09/19/07
Victoria Alexander
Victoria Alexander
FilmsInReview.com

Normally, I start to get the dry heaves when I see Dane Cook on the big screen, but this movie makes him likable

Full Review Source: WaffleMovies.com | comment 3 Comments
09/20/07
Willie Waffle
Willie Waffle
WaffleMovies.com

Terminally unfunny

Full Review Source: Sun Online | comment Comment
11/09/07
Sun Online

The main audience for Good Luck Chuck wants to confront one of the central cultural questions of our time: Will Jessica Alba take her top off?

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
09/21/07
A.O. Scott
A.O. Scott
New York Times
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First-time director Mark Helfrich brings a ham-fisted insistence on the obvious and a tendency to overstate raunchy humor until the raunch becomes a bore.

Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | comment Comment
09/21/07
Amy Biancolli
Amy Biancolli
Houston Chronicle

Just when you think things can't possibly get worse, they do. And then some.

Full Review Source: Killer Movie Reviews | comment Comment
09/18/07
Andrea Chase
Andrea Chase
Killer Movie Reviews

The script is so reliant on wish-fulfillment it forgets to add those important little touches: you know, wit, sincerity, characterisation, that kind of thing… A very cheap shot – and hardly anyone calls him ‘Chuck’.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
11/09/07
Anna Smith
Anna Smith
Time Out

a blow-to-the-crotch, boobie-shot kind of comedy

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
09/20/07
Anne Gilbert
Anne Gilbert
Filmcritic.com

Shoddily written.

Full Review Source: Independent | comment Comment
11/09/07
Anthony Quinn
Anthony Quinn
Independent

Dane 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.

Full Review Source: FromTheBalcony | comment Comment
09/20/07
Bill Clark
Bill Clark
FromTheBalcony

The film's key problem? It's not funny. But almost as fatal, Chuck can't even exploit its simple central premise right.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Daily News | comment Comment
09/21/07
Bob Strauss
Bob Strauss
Los Angeles Daily News

A ramshackle piece of fleeting entertainment.

Full Review Source: Screen International | comment Comment
09/29/07
Brent Simon
Brent Simon
Screen International

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

Full Review Source: FilmStew.com | comment Comment
01/15/08
Brent Simon
Brent Simon
FilmStew.com

A movie that simultaneously squanders its leads and its DVD extras.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
09/20/07
Brian Lowry
Brian Lowry
Variety
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10/20/07
Brian Marder
Brian Marder
Hollywood.com

To best summarize the violent tonal changes that plague Good Luck Chuck, imagine for a moment if Bachelor Party had a subplot concerning the events of 9/11.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment 1 Comment
09/21/07
Brian Orndorf
Brian Orndorf
eFilmCritic.com

What if you took one of the underwhelming Matthew McConaughey romantic comedies like Failure to Launch and added T&A, gross-out humor, and the gorgeous Jessica Alba?

Full Review Source: UGO | comment Comment
09/21/07
Brian Tallerico
Brian Tallerico
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