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Good Luck Chuck
Starring: Dane Cook, Jessica Alba, Dan Fogler, Michelle Harrison, Ellia
English
Directed by: Mark Helfrich
Produced
by:
Mike Karz, Brian Volk-Weiss, Barry Katz
Written
by: Josh Stolberg
Distributor: New Line Cinema, Lionsgate |
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Good Luck Chuck is
one of the most juvenile films made in years and, as a result,
fails to engage the rational adult viewer on even the most basic
of levels. For the movie, screenwriter Josh Stolberg drafted a
crude, trite script that would only tickle the funny-bones of
bawdy teenage audiences. Unfortunately for him, the abundance of
immature sexual content present led to the movie being slapped
with R-rating by the MPAA, barring the aforementioned
target-demographic from seeing it. As a result, Good Luck
Chuck has been
marketed to more mature audiences as a comic love-story, a far
cry from the truth. This is yet another painfully boring “raunch
comedy” that finds the bulk of its humor in characters falling
over and engaging in bizarre sexual positions, hoping
desperately that its audiences are too inebriated to realize the
lack of inspiration behind the material. Nearly as yucky as the
script are leads Dane Cook and Jessica Alba, who come off as
downright sleazy more
than often than they do lovable losers. The movie’s only source
of redemption is Dan Fogler as supporting character Stu, a
superficial plastic surgeon whose fast-talking vulgarity
actually achieves a sort of poetry because of the way the actor
delivers it. On nearly every other count, Good
Luck Chuck is an
unfathomably puerile nightmare, a brainless and occasionally
excruciating exercise in comedic inanity.
-Danny Baldwin, Bucket Reviews
Review Published on: 9.26.2007
Screened on: 9.22.07
at the Krikorian Vista Metroplex 15 in Vista, CA.
Good Luck Chuck is rated R and runs 96 minutes.
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