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.
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09/21/07
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: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... [More]
Reviews for Good Luck Chuck
Doesn't bode well for Cook's movie career, and it's just another in a line of feature comedies that wouldn't cut it even as television sitcoms.
09/20/07
a blow-to-the-crotch, boobie-shot kind of comedy
09/20/07
Normally, I start to get the dry heaves when I see Dane Cook on the big screen, but this movie makes him likable
09/20/07
If I had a choice between suffering through a Dane Cook film or the outtakes from Carrot Top's Chairman of the Board, I'd go with the latter.
09/20/07
Laughs are MIA in this month's comic raunchfest.
09/20/07
Top CriticA movie that simultaneously squanders its leads and its DVD extras.
09/20/07
Top CriticAlba shines brightly as the beautiful, independent klutz who steals Cook's heart. Maybe fate will see to it that appearing in this movie will guarantee her next role is a winner.
09/20/07
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.
09/20/07
Raunchy in the extreme, Good Luck Chuck like its sexually jaded cavity expert, forlorn dentist Charlie, wants it both ways, juxtaposing Alba's lovestruck innocent with Cook's overcooked, reluctantly lusty flesh magnet.
09/20/07
It tries to be a sappy love story, an incredibly vile gross-out comedy and an envelope-pushing soft-core porno movie all at once. It ends up being an unappealing abomination.
09/20/07
There's an audience out there for this kind of thing, but if this is what passes for funny, what in the world of comedy doesn't qualify?
09/20/07
[A] fetid romantic comedy...In short, if it weren't for bad Luck then the chump Chuck wouldn't have any cinematic luck at all.
09/20/07
While only 96 minutes runtime, it felt far longer, prompting me to check the time repeatedly. Not a good thing for a romantic comedy.
09/20/07
Tony-winner Dan Fogler, as Cook's childhood friend, is embarrassingly foul, and even criminally cute Jessica Alba is wasted, playing Cook's painfully clumsy gal pal/penguin nut in this alternately warm and ugly ball of whacks.
09/20/07
The makers of this shameful waste of celluloid have padded their work with fat jokes, homophobic jokes, gratuitous nudity and various bodily functions, while harboring a fundamental hatred for women.
09/20/07
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?
09/20/07
...there's an opening scene...that's little more than kiddie porn, leaving an ugly tast thereafter.
09/20/07
When a film has as much going for it as Good Luck Chuck did at the onset, and the magic is flying, it is positively heartbreaking to watch it all deteriorate by way of such glaring condescension.
09/20/07
The film is some sort of humor-deprivation experiment.
09/20/07
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January 28, 2008:
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