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If you like Dane Cook then chances are you have seen his movies and while Good Luck Chuck is better and in some instances funnier, it still is just another Employee of the Month. I personally enjoy Dane Cook's humor and I thought Employee of the Month was....decent. I was hoping Good Luck Chuck would be a hilarious smash hit but throughout the advanced screening I kept thinking to myself "Okay well this is funny but it's so typical." Now I don't want to give anything away but let's just say if you've seen at least one romantic comedy in your life then you know the entire story of Good Luck Chuck already.

Don't get me wrong, I laughed pretty much all the way through the movie although there were occasional points where it died down a little. Sad to say there were only a few really memorable funny parts to the movie though. Most was just slapstick style humor and revolting sex jokes. The humor in Good Luck Chuck was by far raunchier than Employee of the Month but then again that was PG-13 and this is R.

I mentioned that the movie was typical and when I say typical I mean every romantic movie cliché possible was used. It was like they took a blueprint for a love story and then just added Dane Cook and Jessica Alba and then made them do funny things. Granted there are moments where they stray a little or add a funny twist to the formula but it definitely didn't take long to come up with the progression of love in the film.

If you want your next dose of laughter after Superbad then go see Good Luck Chuck but don't expect anything new or inventive in terms of storytelling. It is however something to note that there are tons of sex scenes, lots of boobs, extremely raunchy jokes, and Jessica Alba does not reveal any body parts although some side boob can be glanced for a brief moment in the movie. (Just an FYI for all those who were dying to know)

A very uneven comedy. If 3 out of every 10 jokes working is enough for you, then go ahead.

If you're hoping to see Dane Cook (nearly) undressed, you won't be disappointed. He strips more in this movie than Demi Moore in "Striptease".

If you're hoping to see Jessica Alba undressed -- too bad! Scanty attire is the best you'll get.

If you're hoping to see Dane be as funny as he is in his stand-up -- you'll be disappointed.

If you're hoping to see Jessica be funny -- what are you, nuts? She's got no comedy chops! And that old tired "pretty girl falls down a lot" shtick wasn't funny when it became a movie cliché about 5 years ago.

The only funny moments seem to be when Dane is improvising. When he's doing the written parts of the script, it clunks hard. (Him dressed in a penguin costume? Yikes.) The two leads try SO hard to show us they have chemistry (a lot of shoulder wiggling and cutesy facial expressions mostly) that it backfires.

There were a lot of gross-out moments that just weren't funny -- the fat sidekick scrubbing his backflap with a scrub-brush for sexual pleasure, a penguin eating his crap, two seduction scenes with obese women (straight out of "Norbit" -- also unfunny).

The sidekick is so foul and obnoxious he throws the movie completely off-balance. You feel like the movie needs a sorbet after one of his scenes to get the bad taste out of your mouth.

The only likable person was the guy playing Jessica's brother (Lonny Ross of "30 Rock"). I actually think he might have made a better romantic lead, than Dane -- who was somehow off-putting.

Maybe Dane will have more input into his next comedy movie. Maybe that will help.

This comedy is really funny. I enjoyed watching it.

This is the story of Charlie, a dentist and all around guy's guy. He convinces himself that he will never find a woman to settle down with and that he is little more that a stepping stone for women to meet their soulmates. This of course becomes a running joke for a goodly part of the movie.At a wedding for one of his exs, Charlie meets Cam, a nervous, extremely clumsy woman, and he sets his eyes on her. She plays hard to get, and the audience is left hoping that they connect and end up together.

This is a pretty funny movie with A LOT of sex in it. The sex is related to the good luck charm feeling Charlie has, and some of the scenarios in which he finds himself are funny. This would have been a better movie with a different actor in the lead role. Dane Cook is a funny comedian, but not the best actor.

Anyone easily offended should avoid this movie, which is what, like 75% of the world that is under 30 years old???

this movie overall was a giant raunchfest but it felt to me like it had at least a little bit of heart. this story follows Charlie Logan, a dentist and his partner in crime Stu,a plastic surgeon. This story follows how Charlie had been hexxed by one of his acquaintances in Junior high, the hexx was that Charlie will never be happy and that if he has sex with somebody, that person will find their one and only right after that. Charlie finds his one and only but he is afraid of losing her because of his hexx. this story was very explicit but it had a happy ending, and it did what a comedy should do, make you laugh. if you turn of your mind and sit and enjoy, you will enjoy this movie.i rate this a 7 out of 10 because even know it wasn't meant to be this big landmark in cinematic achievement, it made me do what i like to do, sit down and ENJOY a movie.

7/10

Charlie Logan (Dane Cook) has been hexed by a disgruntled girl since a childhood game of spin the bottle gone wrong. He is now a womanizing dentist. His best friend Stu (Dan Fogler) since childhood is now the plastic surgeon next door. Charlie gets a reputation as a good luck charm. Every woman he sleeps with finds their dream beau immediately after splitting up. He is enchanted by bumbling Cam Wexler (Jessica Alba). Cam is leery of Charlie's womanizing reputation, and Charlie doesn't want Cam to find her dream man.

There is something about Dane Cook that annoys me to no end. It's some kind of annoying smugness in his persona. At least, Dan Fogler is outdoing him on that front in this movie. Cook isn't that bad in this movie. And there is the adorable Jessica Alba. However it's still not a good comedy.

Keep your expectations low and you'll enjoy 'Good Luck Chuck.' Overall, the movie is generic and predictable. Cook and Alba do good jobs with a paper-thin script and add some great moments with the physical humor such as the flying dental tools and jump starting Dane Cook as seen in the trailer. However, this is also one of those movies where most of the best punchlines are in the trailer which is disappointing.

Expect lots of nudity from everyone including Cook but not Alba. 'Chuck' comes well stocked with lots of naked girls and breast jokes. However, be warned if you're trying to make this a date movie and know there are some very crude parts to this movie. 'Chuck' definitely earns his 'R' rating.

Cook doesn't evolve much from 'Employee of the Month' here but he is enjoyable. Alba is decent at the comedy. Together they have a alright chemistry but the movie is so typical it takes away from the overall experience.

One last note. Cook's sidekick, played by Dan Fogler, is extremely annoying and ruins the momentum of the movie on more than one occasion.

To make a good romantic flick, you must include a nice blend of humor, heart, romance (obviously), drama, and realism. Good Luck Chuck contains none of this. Packing in excessive nudity, pointless scenes, unnecessary crude humor, and predictable physical humor in a matter of 90-something minutes, this film flounders from the beginning, flops mostly throughout, and begins to reek towards the climax and the ending. Missed opportunities are much more common than laughs in this heap of disaster, which also includes a very generic musical score, wooden acting, and borrowed material. Perhaps the only good that comes from this is Jessica Alba, whose sexy and innocent charm keeps this movie afloat, albeit barely.

Good Luck Chuck is a totally different movie from the one advertised. The ads showed that this movie was going to be a charming romantic movie featuring plenty of Cook and plenty of Alba. Unfortunately, we get crude Dane Cook and very little Jessica Alba, and then plenty of preventable boobs. The story here revolves around Chuck (Dane Cook), a man who from a young age receives a hex that allows for him to get with women, but whenever they leave him the next man that female meets will be "The One." He takes advantage of this curse until he realizes that he will become love-deprived as long as the hex exists. In the middle of the crisis he meets a beautiful penguin expert Cam (Jessica Alba) whom instantly brings out the best in him.

Explaining why the film fails would require a lot more words than allowed, so let's just point out the major issues. Let's begin with the writing. It was a good idea turned sour with filler material, terrible jokes, and no heart. Our main character isn't exactly likable until he is on the brink of destruction over our lead female. Chuck's best friend is an even more disgustingly awful character in more ways than one. The lack of chemistry between everybody in the movie is a major concern, but between the two best friends is far beyond awful. The only consistently likable character once again is Cam. Attempting to reach the college crowd, we see plenty of cleavage, undressing, and Frat pack-style humor. Unfortunately, it fails to bring in the heart and good content that the recent Frat Pack movies contain. Unlike the adult comedies we've seen recently, this movie tries much too hard to earn the "R" rating, and it only takes away from its appeal. Has too much crudeness to be considered a date movie, even with its romantic plot entangled.

Dane Cook is overrated on stand-up, and not any better on-screen. Perhaps with good direction, we can see a decent romantic comedic lead out of him, but that is about it. His improvising fails, his line are sometimes delivered flat, and he just doesn't have the charm that we see in Owen Wilson, Will Ferrell, Steve Carell, or Seth Rogen. On the other hand, Jessica Alba pulls a nice performance as the beautiful yet hard-to-get Cam. A noteworthy oddity is that in the previews it shows that she is very clumsy, yet in the film it's a trait that becomes quickly forgotten. She handles herself well with the little material she is given, as she gives the movie its bit of energy that it desperately needs time and time again. Every other female in the movie was in it only because her jugs were a respectable size or in order to be ridiculed by everyone else.

The main issue of Good Luck Chuck is that it is totally unaware of what it is; it is unsure of what kind of movie it should be—then it winds up failing on every genre it tried imitating. Trailer shows it's a quirky romantic comedy—failure. Then in the movie we see an attempt to gross us out, an attempt to arose us with all the nudity, then tries to teach us about love by offering a bit of sentimental value—failure. Fires on all cylinders but miss every single time. It is extremely hard to take this movie seriously in terms of the lovey-dovey material when we see an entire montage of Dane Cook sleeping with different women or there is a moment dedicated to seeing a penguin eating his own feces.

First-time director Mark Helfrich should know better than to riddle this good idea with clichés, explored ideas, and Dane Cook material. Helfrich has been in the business for a very long time, and could have really spun this short story by Steve Glenn into a creative romantic comedy. Instead, it tries much too hard to be like Old School, Wedding Crashers, 40-Year-Old Virgin, and other R-comedies that have helmed a good amount of money. To be able to predict the next several scenes in the movie is never really a good sign either.

Bottom Line: A mess from start to finish, we once again see Dane Cook trying to transfer his success from the mic into the movie screens but with no success at all. It does not help that he has an untalented cast of writers and cameramen behind this trash, but Cook's inability to expand his brand of humor isn't exactly easy to work with either. Besides Alba, there are no admirable traits in this movie, and that even includes the grotesque amount of nudity—and the critic reviewing this is a male. It takes guts to destroy a film that has beautiful women in almost every scene, but Good Luck Chuck does exactly that. If it had stuck to what the trailer was presenting, there could have been some hope. Good Luck Chuck ends up being like the best friend in the movie: crude, offensive, unworthy, pointless, and just all-around an annoyance. Skip this pile of fish droppings.

I can totally understand why this movie heavily slammed by critics and audiences alike. Dane Cook has and never will be well liked outside of his subset of fans. On top of it this movie is so extremely misogynistic, vulgar, and crude. That if it came out in this day and age. It would be 100% cancelled by current culture.

However those were the things I LOVED about this movie. You just can't find movies like this nowadays anymore. While the film was defintely not perfect (the acting wasn't great by all parties). There was good amount of comedy and romance to carry it along.

I definitely recommend this film for teenage to younger male adults alike. I don't really think this film is good fit for women at all just because of the content shown.

I watch a lot of flicks, especially along the lines of this genre. So I am perplexed that that this film has such low ratings. It is actually very funny, and flows well. Dane Cook and Jessica Alba work well together and the slapstick is good, it is funny...granted I have had a bottle of red wine and a litre of Leffe, but hey, who watches a fun flick dead sober except for Mormons? Essentially I am convinced a bunch of Mormons watched this film--something like 10,000--and they all gave it four stars (also odd given the fact I don't think Mormons can use the internet because of all the porn and caffeine). Nonetheless, do not be put off by the reviews of this film. It is good, fun and very enjoyable. Trust me, I am a good judge of crap, but this is just not crap.

Okay, I thought that this movie was going to be extremely crude from what my friends told me. Honestly, it wasn't really that bad, I laughed and enjoyed it; it wasn't Dumb and Dumber, but it was pretty good. I don't know why Richard Roper said it was extremely crude and terrible, he's stupid if you ask me. Now there was a lot more sex then I expected, but if you can handle that montage of sex scenes, then you will enjoy the rest of the movie. It was better than Superbad, I'll tell you that much, I liked it and I hope that some people will give it a chance, rather than listen to Roper and not see it. This movie is for mature viewers, that I agree with, but it is not one of the worst movies of 2007.

When young Charlie has a bad experience with a goth girl after a game of spin the bottle, he gets a curse put on him but thinks nothing on it. A casual comment at a wedding of an ex reveals suggests that whenever he sleeps with a woman, the next man she meets will be her true love and she will get married. At first sceptical, Charlie is soon convinced by his friend Stu to ride the "curse" for all he has got which, thanks to a mix of the internet and desperate young women, he is soon deep in "it" on a nightly basis. It is during this period though that he meets the clumsy but gorgeous Cam and finds they have great chemistry – indeed he likes her so much that he cannot risk the "curse" being real and sets out to break it before he consummates the relationship with Cam.

I watched this film because of the sheer amount of bile that it had had piled onto it made me curious to see what it was about this film that justified it. Watching it for myself I have to confess as to being a bit mystified as to why this film was so slated because really it is no worse in regards laughs or taste that loads of other basic comedies that rely heavily on goofy sexual comedy and a weak plot to appeal to an audience of teenage boys. That is not to say that the film is any good though, because it isn't by any means, just that it is not the end of the world as we know it. Instead it is a mildly amusing film that is built on a poor idea, dumb plot and has some moments that are a matter of gross-out style comedy. As such it does the absolute basics and produced the odd chuckle from me along the way but no doubt it was not a "comedy" as I would like to think of it.

The script is poor but the film is helped a lot more than it deserves by a couple of good(ish) performances. I know may people hate him but, while I don't particularly like Cook, he does have a certain charm to him when he gets the right pitch from his material. He does play it too cocky too often (but then he has kissed Alba) but he is still a decent enough person for this type of thing. Alba deserves a lot better than this – maybe not for her actual talent but certainly for her current fame, it does her career no good to be in the sort of thing that sort pretty rising starlet should be getting. As it is her character is thankless and it is, as usual, her looks and girly giggle/wiggle that carries her through it. Having just seen him in Balls of Fury, I quite liked seeing Fogler again – a simple character to provide crude laughs but he plays it well.

I am being kind to this film, maybe to offset some of the kicking it has gotten but please remember that Good Luck Chuck is not any good. A few chuckles are all the casual viewer will get while they suffer the constant nudity and crudity that is aimed at children and no matter how much the cast work it, there simply isn't the material there to work with. Not the end of the world then – just another banal, sub-par comedy.

There was a particular point in time, where Dane Cook was cast as romantic lead ... in raunchy comedies mostly. And I was a bit surprised Netflix had this in the uncut/unrated form. It's not that much longer, but has a few more bits ... to show. No pun intended.

Although if that offends you, do not even think about watching the movie. Sensibilities be damned, but the movie has more than a couple of scenes that might make you cringe to say the least. Be it the crazy (cursed) individual of your choice (the bad luck Alba or the only once a woman getting lucky Cook) or the best friend of our male lead ... who seems to share the title "creep" with his buddy.

Again there is much to hate, but there can be also much to love. It all depends on how much slack you are willing to cut the movie ... because it is a movie or if you are not able to go there and just plain hate it for the cliches it serves up for a laugh (or tries to serve up for a laugh) ...

The first scene of this film is at a party in 1985, where the protagonist rejects a girl. She puts a curse on him which makes everyone who has sex with him find her dream partner very soon afterwards.

The rest of the film takes place in the present day. Loads of women want sex with him once, because the curse makes him a 'stepping stone' to them finding their dream lover.

Chuck has an on-off relationship with Cam, who is played very well by Jessica Alba.

I really can not understand why so much people don't like this movie, i think the people who don't like this movie mostly have a serious problem with sexual content and sexual scenes... The scenario was original and the characters played well. So whats the problem with you folks... It was better than most of the junk comedies of last years... Funny, sweet and enjoyable movie... If you watch this movie objectively without any complex or whatever problem you got , at least it deserves 6-7 point out of 10 .... Superbad was a disaster for me because of the cheap old story type but most of the people enjoy it a lot. In this category road-trip , orange-country and euro-trip was original and really funny and this movie was close to them....

K, guys, I've seen a lot of bad reviews for this movie, and like, what's up with that? Personally, this wasn't my favorite Dane Cook movie, but it wasn't the worst, I really liked him in this movie. My brother has Dane Cook's CD and I heard it, and I was like....this guy is kinda offensive...but funny, in a way. However on the screen Dane comes out looking good. I'm not going to spoil the movie for ya, but I will tell you it's great.

A lot of women didn't like Dane Cook, and I don't know why, I saw him in a magazine and I was like...this guy is kinda cute. My husband he disagrees obviously, but he likes Dane Cook now, and he says he's a pretty funny guy.

I'm not a huge fan of Jessica Alba, but I liked her in the Fantastic Four movies and thought she did a really good job, but could she do a chick flick, duh.

I liked the connection between the two actors, you can really feel it as an audience member and it made you believe that they could actually be in a relationship that works. I got to tell ya, the whole curse thing, that would creep me out, but I guess Dane's character is alright with that, is it a chick thing? 6/10

I approached this film with an open mind. The reviews had been bad but I films of this genre generally do. Besides any movie with Jessica Alba is worth a try in my opinion!

The concept is good enough and should form a strong comedic element but I laughed about once throughout the movie. I don't know if it's just me but I found the opening kind of wrong and uncomfortable. The kids looked about 10 or 11 and the goth girl asks Charlie to show her his penis! She then forces herself onto him and curses him thus setting up the movie. I just found it unlikely that an 11 year old girl would act or talk in that way.

Despite this weird opening I was still confident it could be a decent movie. I was wrong. Problem? Dane Cook. I saw Employee of the Month (pretty poor but not as bas as this) and Dan In Real Life (good apart from Cook) and found Cook to be intensely irritating. If you think Ben Stiller is annoying with his constant 'I'm a good guy who's unlucky in love' then you should see Dane Cook. He can't act, he isn't funny and his gormless expression which is intended to show emotion just grates after awhile.

So basically every girl who is with him then goes onto meet Mr Right after they split up with him. Predictability ensues and his thoroughly unlikable friend makes the film drag with few jokes capable of raising a laugh. The shame here is that Alba is sweet and the scenes around the penguins are amusing with her brother and her clumsiness raising this film to acceptable. Also the scenes with Alba and Cook before they date are funny with Alba's incredible bad luck with accidents.

This is where the film peaks however, it then steadily declines into absolute trash. It is impossible to care for the relationship. All I was thinking was that Alba should get a new agent because this is atrocious. Cook takes the movie to absurd levels with an over the top display of love in which he seems to become more of a stalker than admirer.

I doubt that many of you will last long through this movie. Believe me the ending isn't worth waiting for. And a warning to you all is do not stay for the credits. I was greeted by the most disgusting and distasteful image that you'll see.

Good Luck Chuck is basically a rom-com with a nastiness to it. It's like the makers were trying to make a trashy sex comedy with a heart. They failed. This movie would have been far more successful had it cut out all the lewdness and Dane Cook!

I don't mind a sex comedy which has outright lewdness and isn't trying to give it any heart. American Pie presents Beta House for instance is pointless but fun because it is meant to disgust and amuse in equal measure. It doesn't have a story and you don't care about the characters, but at least it's not trying. With Good Luck Chuck you feel as though they were trying and this is the biggest tragedy of all.

Good Luck Chuck This movie proved exactly what i thought of it. A good one and half hour laughter, certainly for adults only, but still this movie is better than few of the last comedy flicks i have seen.

The movie is filled with those moments which seriously tickles your funny bone.I felt very light hearted after the movie and i know most of the audience with me the theater too. The movie isn't about teaching you something, no message but tries to provide entertainment where i think it hasn't disappointed me at least.

And all of the above, its a Jessica alba movie how can i leave that.

Watch movie with a open mind and try enjoy it , it won't be tough to do that.

I almost hate what I'm writing here, because i really like Dane Cook, but this was a snooze fest. Literally. I have been following Dane for years, we are 'friends' on his myspace, we even flew to Vegas from Florida to catch Tourgasm. THAT trip was worth the money, this movie is not.

It really is like every other Rom-Com you've ever seen. Full of clichés, with such bland dull writing, it makes you wonder who gets paid to write this stuff. Not a character in the film was either believable, or funny. The closest I'd call funny was his buddy, the plastic surgeon. The closest thing to believable were the penguins.

I wouldn't watch this on cable, I loathed having to pay to see it, and I was nodding out the whole movie. Sorry Dane, I love you man, SUFI baby, but this movie stunk.