An R-rated Doris Day film set in a shopping mall. Amazing enough, but who will pay to see it?
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... 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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Reviews for Good Luck Chuck
The lucky people are the ones who decide not to suffer through this drek.
If you’re expecting something smart from Dane Cook, you’re out of luck.
It casts aside all ambitions for cleverness or wit and instead focuses just on being crass. There's no fun in that unless you're a 13-year-old boy.
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?
'Superbad' and 'Knocked Up' got the delicate balance just right for this kind of raunchfest. 'Chuck' apparently didn't get the memo.
While you probably won’t fall in love with Chuck either it’s good for a no strings attached affair.
It’s total malarkey, of course, and isn’t helped by Cook’s bizarre inability to act heartbroken or Alba’s ill-advised confidence in her gift for slapstick.
The Jessica Alba/Dane Cook love match is degraded by vile jokes, a boorish attitude toward women and a smutty tackiness not seen since those stupid nudie-cuties of the 1960s.
Good Luck Chuck looks like the unscreenable bits of bad movies best forgotten retrieved from the cutting-room floor.
It's all rather messy in lots of ways. Fortunately the appealing presence and physical comedy of Cook and Fogler fill a lot of holes that would otherwise just be dirty ditches.
It's worth mentioning for the third time that this movie is much closer to Caligula than Sleepless in Seattle.
Good Luck Chuck has laugh-out-loud moments, many more if you've never outgrown giggling at somebody saying a naughty word.
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.
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?
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.
There's still time, but for now, Fogler gets my vote for the worst performance of the year.
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January 28, 2008:
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