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Good Luck Chuck (2007)

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Reviews Counted:21

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Rotten:21

Average Rating:2.6/10

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

Full Review Source: Film.com | comment Comment
01/15/08
Mark Bourne
Mark Bourne
Film.com
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Can we finally just admit that Dane Cook isn't funny?

Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment Comment
09/26/07
Chris Nashawaty
Chris Nashawaty
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.

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09/25/07
Richard Roeper
Richard Roeper
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.

Full Review Source: Toronto Star | comment Comment
09/21/07
Susan Walker
Susan Walker
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.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
09/21/07
Peter Hartlaub
Peter Hartlaub
San Francisco Chronicle
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It's a sexed-up, dumbed-down Dr. T and the Women, with penguins to pacify women who've been railroaded into going to this movie by their loutish boyfriends.

Full Review Source: Newsday | comment Comment
09/21/07
Jan Stuart
Jan Stuart
Newsday
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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?

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09/21/07
A.O. Scott
A.O. Scott
New York Times
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The sex jokes, all of them clammy and stale, are reminiscent not of Wedding Crashers but of an Eighth Avenue peep-show booth in 1979.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment 1 Comment
09/21/07
Kyle Smith
Kyle Smith
New York Post
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There's still time, but for now, Fogler gets my vote for the worst performance of the year.

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09/21/07
Jack Mathews
Jack Mathews
New York Daily News
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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
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A desperately unfunny mix of romantic and gross-out comedy.

Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press | comment Comment
09/21/07
John Monaghan
John Monaghan
Detroit Free Press
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Here is the dirty movie of the year, slimy and scummy, and among its casualties is poor Jessica Alba, who is a cutie and shouldn't have been let out to play with these boys.

Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | comment 2 Comments
09/21/07
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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Some of the audience seemed to be having fun, but for me it was like a Farrelly brothers gross-out without the laughs.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
09/21/07
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
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It's a good device either for science-fiction or romantic comedy. But since there's no intelligence to drive the jokes, the gimmick turns tiresome quick.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
09/21/07
Wesley Morris
Wesley Morris
Boston Globe
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I'd like to be able to say they couldn't pay me to see this flick. Alas, it's apparent I can be bought, and pretty cheaply too.

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
09/21/07
Rick Groen
Rick Groen
Globe and Mail
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Laughs are MIA in this month's comic raunchfest.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
09/20/07
Stephen Farber
Stephen Farber
Hollywood Reporter
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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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Cook has a nice comic personality but zilch in the way of comic material. But then, it's not as if any of those teenage boys are going to care about that.

Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | comment Comment
09/20/07
Jeff Strickler
Jeff Strickler
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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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?

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment 2 Comments
09/20/07
Desson Thomson
Desson Thomson
Washington Post
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The film is some sort of humor-deprivation experiment.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
09/20/07
Michael Phillips
Michael Phillips
Chicago Tribune
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