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Good Luck Chuck

Overwhelming dislike
Based on 23 critic reviews
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Based on 58 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy | Romance
Written by:
Steve Glenn (short story)
Josh Stolberg
Directed by: Mark Helfrich
Release Date:
Theatrical: September 21, 2007
DVD: January 15, 2008
Running Time: 96 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for sequences of strong sexual content including crude dialogue, nudity, language and some drug use
Starring Dane Cook, Jessica Alba, Dan Fogler, and Ben Ayres
It all started when Charlie Logan was 10 years old. Breaking the cardinal rules of spin the bottle, Charlie refused to lip-lock with a demented goth girl--and she put a hex on him. Now, 25 years later, Charlie is a successful dentist...and still cursed. While his plastic-surgeon best friend, Stu, pursues as many of his patients as possible, Charlie can't seem to find the right girl. Even worse, he discovers at an ex-girlfriend's wedding that every woman he's ever slept with has found true love--with the next guy after him. Before he knows it, Charlie's reputation as a "good luck charm" has women--from sexy strangers to his overweight receptionist--lining up for a quickie. A life filled with all sex and no love has Charlie lonelier than ever--that is, until he meets Cam. An accident-prone penguin specialist, Cam is as hard-to-get as she is beautiful. But when a genuine romance develops, Charlie realizes he's got to find a way to break his good-luck curse...before the girl of his dreams winds up with the next guy she meets. (Lionsgate)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
ReelViews James Berardinelli
At least Jessica Alba's legion of fans will have something to smile about. If nothing else, Helfrich has shown her in the best light. If only there was something worth seeing here other than her.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Stephen Farber
The script by Josh Stolberg has no fizz. It's possible to sit for half an hour without cracking a smile. Part of the problem is sheer repetitiveness; another problem is that Stu's leering remarks are repulsive rather than endearing.
Read Full Review >Variety Brian Lowry
Dane Cook sells out arenas with his stand-up act, and Jessica Alba is, well, Jessica Alba, but once "Chuck" exhausts their devoted bases, this doesn't promise to bring much good luck to Lionsgate.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
The movie spares no effort to reach out to the crudest, youngest audiences it can.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Tim Grierson
Though he’s known for his mildly edgy standup, someone in authority has decided Cook would be well-suited for fluffy romantic comedies, but like last fall’s Employee of the Month, Good Luck Chuck is so undistinguished that it feels like an extended screen test.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
It's a strictly date-night-rental affair, and if you still get Ryan Reynolds and Dane Cook confused, this will do little to help sort things out.
Read Full Review >Empire Helen O'Hara
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.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
There's still time, but for now, Fogler gets my vote for the worst performance of the year.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Ken Fox
Like everything else about this insulting romantic comedy, the Jessica Alba/Dane Cook love match is degraded by vile jokes, a boorish attitude toward women and a smutty tackiness not seen since those stupid nudie-cuties of the 1960s.
Read Full Review >The New York Times A.O. Scott
The main audience for this dim little sex comedy has no particular interest in seeing Ms. Alba act. They want to see her in her underwear and also to confront one of the central cultural questions of our time: will she take her top off?
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Here is the dirty movie of the year, slimy and scummy, and among its casualties is poor Jessica Alba, who is a cutie and shouldn't have been let out to play with these boys.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
This is less an affront to women than it is to comedy.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
One Star (and only for quoting Knee-Chee).
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
Good Luck Chuck is this year’s low-ender to beat.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
There's an audience out there for this kind of thing--Cook is obviously a populist, and Norbit made bushels of money--but if this is what passes for funny, what in the world of comedy DOESN'T qualify?
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub
That closing-credits sequence is by far the funniest thing in the disappointing movie,
Read Full Review >Film Threat Pete Vonder Haar
Veers between flaccid slapstick and mean-spirited vulgarity.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
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.
Read Full Review >New York Post Kyle Smith
Good Luck Chuck, a fungal little sex comedy, doesn't need a review. It needs a tube of ointment and a shot of penicillin.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
It was like a Farrelly brothers gross-out without the laughs.
Read Full Review >Premiere Glenn Kenny
If raunch-comedy maestro Judd Apatow had not just an evil, but an evil-and-untalented twin, this grotesque excrescence would be his signature work.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Chris Nashawaty
Can we finally just admit that Dane Cook isn't funny? In a comedy so lame its plot could've been swiped from a Bazooka Joe wrapper.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 3.7 (out of 10) based on 58 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Francis K. gave it a7:
I am what you may consider a stereotypical "fan of intelligent cinema", but I quite liked this film. Yes, it has crude, sexual humour (which is not everyone's cup of tea) and some slapstick comedy (but a least it knows where to stop), the plot was a bit predictable (although not dumb) and Dane Cook isn't really that interesting as an actor, but I was entertained by the film's boldness (and its jokes, of course). At first I didn't even want to see this, thanks to the reviews, but my friends thought it was hilarious and I wanted to prove them wrong. I was prepared to see a sexist, cheap and dumb film about f*cking a lot and exploiting women, but it was I that was (surprisingly) proven wrong. And during the subtitles I thought, "Why all the hate?" Maybe people need to be more open-minded sometimes. I is definitely not a masterpiece, but that doesn't make it a terrible, unfunny, male chauvinistic piece of crap, as most reviews seem to suggest. I even might say that it "has a soul".
Jason Z. gave it a2:
Was it funny? No. It was just Dane Cook being disgusting.
JE S. gave it a6:
Very funny film, that has to be taken for what it is: 1st degree low level humor. But wait for it to see it on tv, doesn't worth paying for DVD rental.
Exotic gave it a9:
I understand that the movie is having many flaws... it gives wrong impression about the culture and ethics.. Yes. we cannot enjoy the movie if you try to find out the good message out of it.. BUT.. really I enjoyed the performance of Jessica Alba.. and Cook.. Jessica Alba proved once again that she is the Best.
Nim C. gave it a5:
I thought parts of the movie were funny but the jokes became tiresome and repetitive. Please no-one compare this to Superbad. The characters in Superbad were always funny and endearing and the storyline was brilliant. Good Luck Chuck was just 1 and a bit hours of crude and sometimes disturing boob jokes with no chemistry between the characters. Jessica ... what were you thinking??
Dan G. gave it a1:
Ok it just sucks people. I work at a DVD rental store and un-recommend it to people as the ask me if it's good (making sure to do so loudly enough that anyone else in the store doesn't make the mistake). Oh, and if you didn't know who Dane Cook was before this movie, you're not missing much.
Jim S. gave it a0:
Believe the critics on this one. One of my friends has been telling me how funny this movie is. So, I finally watched it and it is bad. I fast forwarded through much of it. I can find something entertaining in most movies, and I tried really hard to like it, but it was no use. Stupid, crude, unfunny, full of every ridiculous cliche. Please don't subject yourself to this.
