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. Unfortunately, we get crude Dane Cook and very little Jessica Alba, and then plenty of preventable boobs.
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The ads showed that this movie was going to be a charming romantic movie featuring plenty of Cook and plenty of Alba. Good Luck Chuck is a totally different movie from the one advertised. Perhaps the only good that comes from this is Jessica Alba, whose sexy and innocent charm keeps this movie afloat, albeit barely. 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.
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. To make a good romantic flick, you must include a nice blend of humor, heart, romance (obviously), drama, and realism. Maybe Dane will have more input into his next comedy movie. I actually think he might have made a better romantic lead, than Dane - who was somehow off-putting. The only likable person was the guy playing Jessica's brother (Lonny Ross of "30 Rock"). You feel like the movie needs a sorbet after one of his scenes to get the bad taste out of your mouth. The sidekick is so foul and obnoxious he throws the movie completely off-balance. 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). (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. When he's doing the written parts of the script, it clunks hard. The only funny moments seem to be when Dane is improvising. 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. 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 Alba undressed - too bad! Scanty attire is the best you'll get. He strips more in this movie than Demi Moore in "Striptease".
If you're hoping to see Dane Cook (nearly) undressed, you won't be disappointed. If 3 out of every 10 jokes working is enough for you, then go ahead. As romantic comedies go, "Good Luck Chuck" isn't bad. Can Charlie break the curse? 'Course he can. Women flock to Charlie and that's great, but then Charlie meets his perfect girl. Dentist Charlie is cursed in that every woman he sleeps with eventually leaves him and finds true love in the arms of their very next partner. Actually, thinking about it, "Good Luck Chuck" has a pretty good setup for a porno comedy. "Good Luck Chuck" is gross, crass, sexist, probably misogynist, has lots and lots of gratuitous nudity (even if the lovely Jessica Alba's no nudity clause just about manages to stay intact - boo, hiss!), fat jokes, slapstick comedy and penguin porn.
However, it does deliver exactly what it says on the tin (or in the trailer) and you can hardly complain about being misled if you hand over your pounds, dollars, rand or groats to see it. Of course it goes without saying that "Good Luck Chuck" really is a load of rubbish. What do I care about credibility? I thought that "Good Luck Chuck" was funny.