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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: 15

Runtime: 1 hr 41 mins

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release:08-11-2007

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 unpleasant sex romp of the kind Robin Askwith made in the 1970s.

Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
11/09/07
Neil Smith
Neil Smith
BBC
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Good Luck Chuck has its moments - though the half-decent comedy moments are outweighed by the gags that fizzle and the cruddy loutish moments.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
11/09/07
Daniel Etherington
Daniel Etherington
Channel 4 Film
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If it wasn’t for the presence of leading lady Jessica Alba, Good Luck Chuck would be lucky to get even a DVD release.

Full Review Source: Daily Mirror [UK] | comment Comment
11/09/07
David Edwards
David Edwards
Daily Mirror [UK]

It’s too gross to be sweet and too sweet to be gross.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
11/08/07
Helen OHara
Helen OHara
Empire Magazine
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If Wedding Crashers is in your top ten rom-coms ever, you might not hate this. Otherwise, it’s too gross to be sweet and too sweet to be gross.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
11/08/07
Helen OHara
Helen OHara
Empire Magazine
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Cross the street to avoid this one.

Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment 1 Comment
11/09/07
Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]
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Shoddily written.

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

A tedious stream of nightmarish deja vu.

Full Review Source: Little White Lies | comment Comment
11/07/07
Jonathon Williams
Jonathon Williams
Little White Lies

A ramshackle piece of fleeting entertainment.

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

Despite a strong cast, the filmmakers squander a clever premise for a series of unoriginal, cheap jokes.

Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | comment Comment
09/20/07
Rich Cline
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

Terminally unfunny

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

Crude, vulgar and dispiriting to watch.

Full Review Source: This is London | comment 1 Comment
11/09/07
Derek Malcolm
Derek Malcolm
This is London

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
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As dire a cum-com as ever shot its load on a cinema screen.

Full Review Source: Total Film | comment Comment
11/09/07
Neil Smith
Neil Smith
Total Film
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Average comedy that squanders its decent premise in favour of a splattering of unfunny gross-out gags.

Full Review Source: ViewLondon | comment Comment
11/08/07
Matthew Turner
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon

It’s our dumb luck that this movie has be foisted upon us.

Full Review Source: 3BlackChicks Review | comment Comment
10/06/07
Kamal  'The Diva' Larsuel
Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel
3BlackChicks Review

Please Hollywood, do us a favor. No more Dane Cook! I think I'll make a ribbon for this cause and start wearing it.

Full Review Source: 7M Pictures | comment 5 Comments
09/21/07
Kevin Carr
Kevin Carr
7M Pictures

Good Luck Chuck is the anti-Superbad.

Full Review Source: Aisle Seat | comment Comment
09/26/07
Mike McGranaghan
Mike McGranaghan
Aisle Seat

Only a truly unhappy, crabbed mind could possibly imagine most of these jokes.

Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy | comment Comment
09/24/07
Tim Brayton
Tim Brayton
Antagony & Ecstasy

I'm tempted to suggest it was made for 13-year-old boys, but I remember being 13, and I'd have been offended if anyone had suggested movies this awful were made for me.

Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | comment Comment
09/25/07
Brian Webster
Brian Webster
Apollo Guide
 
 
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