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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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An R-rated Doris Day film set in a shopping mall. Amazing enough, but who will pay to see it?

Full Review Source: Monsters and Critics | comment Comment
09/24/07
Ron Wilkinson
Ron Wilkinson
Monsters and Critics

The lucky people are the ones who decide not to suffer through this drek.

Full Review Source: TheMovieChicks.com | comment Comment
09/23/07
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
TheMovieChicks.com

Yecch!

Full Review Source: Houston Community Newspapers | comment Comment
09/22/07
Gary Brown
Gary Brown
Houston Community Newspapers

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

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.

Full Review Source: EricDSnider.com | comment Comment
09/22/07
Eric D. Snider
Eric D. Snider
EricDSnider.com

A poor man's version of a Judd Apatow-style raunchy romantic comedy.

Full Review Source: Reel.com | comment Comment
09/22/07
Timothy Knight
Timothy Knight
Reel.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
UGO

'Superbad' and 'Knocked Up' got the delicate balance just right for this kind of raunchfest. 'Chuck' apparently didn't get the memo.

Full Review Source: Maxim | comment Comment
09/21/07
Pete Hammond
Pete Hammond
Maxim

While you probably won’t fall in love with Chuck either it’s good for a no strings attached affair.

Full Review Source: Gazette (MD) | comment Comment
09/21/07
Jeffrey Lyles
Jeffrey Lyles
Gazette (MD)

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.

Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | comment 2 Comments
09/21/07
Tim Grierson
Tim Grierson
L.A. Weekly

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.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
09/21/07
Ken Fox
Ken Fox
TV Guide's Movie Guide

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

There is nothing good about this Luck.

Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press | comment Comment
09/21/07
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press

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.

Full Review Source: Seattle Times | comment Comment
09/21/07
Ted Fry
Ted Fry
Seattle Times

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

Good Luck Chuck has laugh-out-loud moments, many more if you've never outgrown giggling at somebody saying a naughty word.

Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | comment Comment
09/21/07
Roger Moore
Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel

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?

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
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.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
09/21/07
Jack Mathews
Jack Mathews
New York Daily News
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