Good Luck Chuck (2007)

Sadly Over-hyped

As Good As It Gets

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Good Luck Chuck is so embarrassing for everyone involved. Oh my goodness this film is bad. I feel so sorry for Dane Cook and Jessica Alba and the all the supporting actors involved. This film is just so below amateur and full of middle school humor that it's embarrassing. It reminds me of a typical straight middle school boy's brain. Random naked women bouncing on top of Dane Cook, an absolutely terrible male best friend who is the most offensive character ever, and disgusting crude humor. The script is filled to the brim with poor humor that just falls flat and doesn't amuse or entertain in the least. It's also got very lazy dialogue that does nothing to make the audience want to stay and keep watching. I will say that I actually don't think Dane Cook is a terrible actor, I just think that he wasn't getting any other offers and this came across his desk and he took it because it was work. I think the same is true for Jessica Alba, I mean just think about it, why would any actor or actress that is doing well with their career choose this project to work on? They wouldn't. And I know they wouldn't because this is a sucky movie that is boring, disgusting, lazy, poorly acted, and very unfunny. I sincerely hope that both Cook and Alba's acting careers improve and that good offers are offered instead of this mess. 1/10.

"Good Luck Chuck" is a 2007 independent film currently available on NetFlix Instant Download Streaming. It is billed as a comedy, but it should be "Juvenile Comedy". It is directed by Mark Helfrich. The screenplay is by Josh Stolberg, and the (short story) is by Steve Glenn. The cast includes Connor Price, Troy Gentile, Mackenzie Mowat, Sasha Piererse, Caroline Ford, Dane Cook, Chelan Simmons, Dan Fopgler, Natalie Morris, Ella English, Tseng Chang, Michael Teigen, Chlara Zanni, Benjamin Ayres, Carrie Fleming, Agam Darshi, Jessica Alba, Crystal Lowe, Steve Glenn, Tea Helfrich, Yasmine Vox, Lonny Ross and Tava Smiley. The story is a simple one about a young dentist who swoons more women than is humanly possible. I was not impressed and gave it only 2 stars. Dale Haufrect

Until he meets the love of his life. Of course one thing common in genre films, certainly not this only occurred in one. But even so the idea is wrong, how to sleep with him and after that find eternal love? They can not do this without making Chuck happy? Love parties and nudity scenes bring a minus, the movie can be considered one of bad taste, but even so I was amused. Phases with Jessica, how she was in an embarrassing situation due to inattention to the wedding, the dentist, on the street when the pole head on, there were some funny scenes that anyone can be amused. I liked Chuck's sense of humor, knows how to make a girl laugh, every time they were talking he had one reply which amused by the situation. A comedy that has good and bad parts but still makes you laugh.

Dentist Charlie is cursed as a child: the curse means that every woman he has sex with finds true love with the bloke after him. This means that he is hotly pursued by women eager to have unemotional clinical sex with him as a quick fix for their long-term plans. For a while this suits Charlie just fine, but then...OK, so this is a promising set-up for a comedy - now what shall we do with it? Let's introduce a potential love interest for Charlie - let's make her Cam, a gorgeous penguin keeper, let's make her initially reluctant to enter a relationship with Charlie (even though they like each other) and, in a stroke of genius, let's make her an accident-prone klutz. And then, when they fall for each other, let's make Charlie scared to make love with her because he is scared that the curse means he will then lose her.This movie has a fair amount going for it. Dane Cook and Jessica Alba are engaging as Charlie and Cam, Jessica Alba has quite a lot of fairly funny slapstick, much of what happens is quite sweet, and Jessica Alba in skimpies is always welcome. And, in a surprisingly touching moment, when Charlie is approached by his portly (and lonely) practice nurse, his response is unexpectedly kind and gentle.Then we have the not-so-good. The multi-partner sex montage is perhaps a little too long and a tad overdone, but maybe that isn't really an issue given the subject matter of this movie. If that was all....But there is a descent into unbelievable behaviour about halfway through. There is a deeply unpleasant little sequence featuring an encounter with an obese woman of unattractive demeanour and habits (which contrasts drastically with what might otherwise be thought to be a similar encounter with the practice nurse).And, worst of all, there is Charlie's "best friend" Stu (Dan Fogler) who serves the purpose of Greek chorus, and is the most repellent character I have seen in a film since Jonah Hill in Superbad and Rob Corddry in Hot Tub Time Machine. When a film makes you want to kill a character who fulfils this sort of function in the story, it's getting something badly wrong.A shame, as this film so nearly got so much right.