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Good Luck Chuck
Lionsgate

Good Luck Chuck reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 19 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
3.6 out of 10
based on 23 reviews
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MPAA 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)


GENRE(S): Comedy  |  Romance  
WRITTEN BY: Steve Glenn (short story)
Josh Stolberg
 
DIRECTED BY: Mark Helfrich  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: January 15, 2008 
Theatrical: September 21, 2007 
RUNNING TIME: 96 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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50
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.
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40
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.
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40
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.
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40
Washington Post Desson Thomson
The movie spares no effort to reach out to the crudest, youngest audiences it can.
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40
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.
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40
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.
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40
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.
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38
New York Daily News Jack Mathews
There's still time, but for now, Fogler gets my vote for the worst performance of the year.
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38
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.
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30
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?
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25
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.
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25
Boston Globe Wesley Morris
This is less an affront to women than it is to comedy.
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25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
One Star (and only for quoting Knee-Chee).
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25
Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
Good Luck Chuck is this year’s low-ender to beat.
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25
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?
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25
San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub
That closing-credits sequence is by far the funniest thing in the disappointing movie,
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20
Film Threat Pete Vonder Haar
Veers between flaccid slapstick and mean-spirited vulgarity.
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16
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.
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12
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.
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0
Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow
It's stupefying in its dullness and vulgarity.
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0
Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
It was like a Farrelly brothers gross-out without the laughs.
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0
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.
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0
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.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 3.6 (out of 10) based on 55 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

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.

Thomas T. gave it a2:
I thought that there might have been a chance that this movie would have been entertaining... but I was wrong.

Rick S. gave it a2:
By far one of the worst movies I've ever seen. When will Hollywood realize that if they want a poor excuse for a film, they will put such unfunny wanna-be actors in such as, I don't know, Dane Cook? Not to mention the uncalled for sex scenes. I'll admit, there are times when a sex scene is needed, but this was grotesque. It was as if Mark Helfrich was just trying to give the American High School kids something to talk about instead of focusing on a good movie. The script, well...have you seen it? I give it a rating of two, for pity's sake.

K C gave it a0:
This movie is aggressively stupid. Dane Cook is an embarrassment to humanity.

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