Empire's Good Luck Chuck Movie Review

Plot
Charlie Logan (Cook) learns that he’s considered a good-luck charm: every girl he sleeps with meets her true love straight afterwards. But when Charlie meets the woman of his dreams (Alba), he faces a tough choice: sleep with her and lose her or find a way to break the curse…

If you’re the person who saw Employee Of The Month, chances
are you’re already familiar with US comedian Dane Cook. For the rest of us, Cook is the one who looks like Ryan Reynolds might if he had the cold, dead eyes of a shark, less talent and no charm. But someone in Hollywood has Cook marked for big things, with the result that he’s back, starring opposite Jessica Alba in a gross-out rom-com.

The plot is promising, if utterly silly: any time Cook’s Charlie sleeps with a woman, she goes on to find love with the next man she dates. When this trend is brought to Charlie’s attention, he’s at first sceptical but soon sets out to exploit it at his odious friend Stu’s (Dan Fogler) behest, shagging a succession of desperate lovelies. But when penguin-fancier and chronic klutz Cam (Alba) stumbles into view, he’s so smitten that he realises that his days as a good-luck charm are numbered.

The film’s sexual politics are questionable at best. The lust objects Charlie dates apparently all want to get married asap, and they’re all either drop-dead gorgeous or utterly hideous, with only one token nod to the rest of the female species. Alba’s character is no better drawn - you’d think her unhealthy penguin obsession would be enough of a character flaw to render her decision to date Charlie believable, but just in case you still don’t buy the attraction, they make her so clumsy that she makes Inspector Clouseau look like Rudolph Nureyev. Cue Jessica walking into lampposts, falling into pools and losing her skirt - it’s mildly amusing at best and painful the majority of the time.

It’s not all dreadful, though. Alba may not be the world’s greatest actress but she aces sweet ’n’ cutesy, and the montage of Charlie’s marathon shagging endeavours in an effort to disprove the curse is hilarious. Some of the romancing between the frustrated Charlie and the seductive Cam even becomes quite sweet - but soon Fogler’s irritating Stu reappears to remind us why we hate the film. The result is a clichéd comedy that relies entirely on the good looks of its stars to get by.

RE: hmm
This film was plain and simple, not a good film. It was a comedy that wasn't funny with actors in it that aren't funny. Dane Cook is a complete waste of space and does anybody think that Jessica Alba actually knows she is shit? The only plus point is that I didn't go to see it at the pics, just got it via lovefilm. ... More

Posted by jimbojofre at 12:00, 14 October 2008 \| Report This Post



RE: hmm
L: lolita37 I found this quite sweet, mildly funny but the whole film was killed by foglers idiotic character, and the penguin oral sex segment in the end! WTF!! sp; I'd agree with those sentiments exactly ... More


Posted by Daniel Kelly at 15:09, 12 October 2008 \| Report This Post



hmm
I found this quite sweet, mildly funny but the whole film was killed by foglers idiotic character, and the penguin oral sex segment in the end! WTF!! ... More


Posted by lolita37 at 15:13, 18 November 2007 \| Report This Post



RE:
biggest pile of **** released in a long time. Im disgusted that the cinema I work at is showing this and not Into the Wild. ... More

Posted by tarantinofan at 10:40, 08 November 2007 \| Report This Post




An inglorious 'comedy' that doesn't inspire a single laugh, makes the viewer retch and annoys on just about every level capable. ... More


Posted by tombetom at 22:37, 07 November 2007 \| Report This Post




"Cook is the one who looks like Ryan Reynolds might if he had the cold, dead eyes of a shark, less talent and no charm" Absolutely hilarious sentence and accurate too from the posters I have seen. ... More


Posted by JagLover at 09:38, 05 November 2007 \| Report This Post

Good Luck Chuck You’ll need it to get through this

Good Luck Chuck
You’ll need it to get through this