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Director: Mark Helfrich
Starring: Dane Cook, Jessica Alba, Dan Fogler, Ellia English
As a reviewer, I try to watch a movie without preconceived notions. Being a mediocre reviewer at best however, I don’t always manage this. I started watching Good Luck Chuck, expecting it to suck (note the clever rhyme). I was wrong. It didn’t suck. It was worse than that.
The story starts out silly and tries to distract the viewer with more naked boobies than Friday night at a strip club. For humor, we are treated to an unending succession of sex jokes and slapstick accidents. There are a few laughs, but as the story gets worse so does Dane Cook’s performance. Alba looks great, of course, but her role is so empty, that there is little else to say. The last half of the film plays like some kind of offensive, creepy, stalker edition of SNL, and the script has as many laughs as a restraining order. Nope. That ain’t many.
Dane Cook is Charlie Logan, a dentist looking for love with the elementary school curse of an infatuated goth girl hanging over his head. And you thought you had romance problems? This curse manifests itself by having Chuck’s relationships fail, and all of his sex partners going onto find their true love right after being with him. When this urban legend gets out, Charlie gets more pussy thrown his way than a rock star at a nympho convention. While his best friend, Stu thinks that this is roughly on a par with being a deity of some sort, Chuck is not so sure, and is even more concerned when he meets Cam, a penguin-obsessed beauty (Jessica Alba), who steals his heart. Chuck now has to avoid sex with Cam, until he can find out if the curse is real. It’s around this point that the movie goes to pieces and made me consider using the dvd as part of some kind of movie wind chime so I could get some enjoyment out of it.
Good Luck Chuck offers plenty of model-quality topless women and humor that reminds me of a kid I knew in grade seven. All of his jokes were gross, or dirty, too. The difference is that his were funny sometimes. If you enjoyed movies like The Heartbreak Kid, and I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, then this one is for you. If not, rent a playboy video for more breast views, and almost as many laughs.
