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Good Luck Chuck
Movie Stats & Links |
| Starring: |
Dane Cook, Jessica Alba,
Dan Fogler |
| MPAA Rated: |
R |
| Released By: |
Lionsgate Films |
| Web Site: |
lionsgate./goodluckchuck |
| Kiddie Movie: |
For the love of
God, no. |
| Date Movie: |
Only if you want
her to break up with you or you are both kinky enough to
laugh at stuffed animal bestiality. |
| Gratuitous Sex: |
There's a lot of
it, with nudity, interesting positions, but Jessica keeps
most of her clothes on. |
| Gratuitous
Violence: |
Cam's a clutz, so
mostly her just causing mayhem. |
| Action: |
Nope. |
| Laughs: |
I forgot any of
them while being creeped out by Stu. |
| Memorable
Scene: |
Had this movie
been a better romantic comedy, Charlie's giving Cam a pebble
would have had the dudettes balling their eyes out. |
| Memorable
Quote: |
None. |
| Directed By: |
Mark Helfrich |
| Produced By: |
Mike Karz,
Barry Katz, Brian Volk-Weiss |
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Good Luck Chuck
A Movie Review |
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I really hate when I come out of a movie where I know
that somewhere inside of what I just watched could have been
a something a whole lot better. Such was my reaction after
leaving "Good Luck Chuck" where the movie ends during the
credits as Stu (Dan Fogler) and his girl are watching a
homemade video that Charlie (Dane Cook) and Cam (Jessica
Alba) made, spotlighting Charlie (Dane Cook) simulating oral
sex on a stuffed penguin. I’m sure someone thought the scene
would be hilarious, and it might have been if Charlie
stopped, looked into the camera and said "Stu, I know you’re
watching, you pervert." But no, that didn’t happen, instead
we just get simulated bestiality on a stuffed penguin.
If you saw the trailer for the movie you pretty much saw
all of the film. Charlie is cursed where if he sleeps with a
woman, well, the next man the woman finds will be the love
of her life, they will get married, and live happily ever
after. This leaves Charlie having a lot, and I mean a lot,
of meaningless sex with a lot of naked women. But Charlie
has a problem, namely that he thinks he has found his true
love, in the likes of Cam, who runs the penguin house at an
ocean theme park. Cam likes Charlie, too, but she has heard
the rumors about him and isn’t one for meaningless sex, but
does have a huge obsession with penguins.
So Charlie has to see if he can break his curse, Cam
wants sex but Charlie won’t give it to her, and in the
meantime we get constantly inundated with Charlie’s best
friend, Stu, who takes being a pervert to an entirely
new, unfunny level, for example, what dude would ever look
at a grapefruit and think "Geeze, if I core a hole in there,
and warm it up in the microwave, maybe I could use it to
masturbate with?" And you know what, we also get a scene
where Charlie walks in on Stu with his new grapefruit love.
I don’t know where everyone went wrong with this film,
and I cannot believe I’m about to write this, but "Good Luck
Chuck" was ruined by too much sex and nudity, trying too
hard to be like "Wedding Crashers" or "Knocked Up,"
while losing its focus as a romantic comedy and veering into
crude dialogue that wasn’t funny.
Jessica Alba at least looks a hell of a lot better than
she did in "The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer,"
but if she was looking at this movie to spotlight her as a
comedic star she picked the wrong flick, and with so much
nudity in a film, Jessica keeps things covered. The thing is
that Charlie and Cam are cute together, and if the movie
didn’t stray so far into creepydom, you could almost see it
as a great date movie, but between Stu being the creepiest
dude alive (and where's the love for "Total Recall," at
least we could have had a scene with Stu explaining why he
loved that movie, thus a funnier explanation for the love of
his new woman, but I'm sorry, I digress), Charlie’s meltdown when he realizes his curse
might not be broken after he sleeps with Cam, and
stuffed-animal bestiality, I could barely remember that
there were actually some things I laughed at during the
film.
Ruining what could have been a nice romantic comedy by
introducing R-rated material that wasn’t funny, nor
necessary, I’ve got to only give "Good Luck Chuck" 1 ½ star
out of 5. This could have easily been a 4 star film, but
sadly even all of the blatant nudity didn’t help.
That’s it for this one! I’m The Dude on the Right!!
L8R!!! |
