Good Luck Chuck Movie Review

MOVIE REVIEW: GOOD LUCK CHUCK

09/20/07

OH, MY, GOD!!! This phrase kept coming to my mind over and over as I watched this film. Right off the bat let me warn you that if you are a minor, a conservative, a prude or have strong religious convictions, please turn around and walk out of the theater quickly! You will find that illustrations from the “Kama Sutra” ain’t got nothin’ on this film. Five minutes into this movie you find yourself in the middle of an “innocent” game of spin the bottle. Innocent until these cute little kids start talking about sex. Chuck’s (Dane Cook) best friend, Stu (Dan Fogler), is the fountain of all this information (and did I mention boob obsessed?), albeit not always correct on the actual mechanics. Chuck finds himself in a closet unwillingly playing 7 minutes in heaven with “Goth Girl” (Sasha Pieterse). Apparently she has been secretly crushing on him and when Chuck refuses to show her the goods, she places a hex on him that turns into Chuck’s grown-up curse. Now what seems like a crisis to Chuck may seem like a blessing to some if not most of the men out there. You see, the curse turns out to make him a stepping stone to every woman’s “happily-ever-after”. The problem is that he finally finds his Ms. Right and has to find a way to keep her. The extremely cute and ridiculously klutzy Cam (Jessica Alba) has changed his opinion on love and thus he needs to find a solution to his “lucky charm” appeal.

Taken at face value this film will get quite a few tears of laughter out of you and maybe even an “I’m gonna pee in my pants” moment, but it may be at the expense of out right crudeness. Yes, a lot of the humor comes from taking clichéd dirty jokes and bringing them to life, but it will make you laugh.

Although there is quite a bit of female anatomy shown in this flick, Dane Cook turns out to be quite a piece of eye candy. Unfortunately, that is about all that makes him stand out in this film. He seems to depend on the dirty joke aspect of this film without putting much effort on his own comedic talent. Jessica Alba never seemed to convince me that she could truly be that clumsy and I kept getting the feeling that she had to have been chosen as a second choice for this part. The breakout star of this film in my opinion is Dan Fogler as Stu. Just looking at him made me laugh but the great thing is that when he opened his mouth it just got better. If you’ve seem “Balls of Fury”, you’ll like him better here. I can’t wait to see more of him.

Interestingly enough, you don’t seem to get a feel for where this movie was filmed and the scenery is limited to basically a penguin sanctuary, Chuck and Stu’s offices and lots of bedroom scenes (did I mention that this film is close to being pornographic?). That said, you will find that visually the film will run the gamut of shots from cute penguins, big girls in lingerie and simply old fashioned hot chicks. You’ll find the ending to be schmaltzy and predictable.