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Good Luck Chuck Takes Filmmaking to the Gutter
Lisa Rice
Crosswalk.com Contributing Writer
DVD Release Date: January 15, 2008
Theatrical Release Date: September 21, 2007
Rating: R (for sequences of strong sexual content including crude dialogue, nudity, language and some drug use)
Genre: Comedy
Run Time: 118 minutes
Director: Mark Helfrich
Actors: Dane Cook, Jessica Alba, Dan Fogler, Connor Price, Troy Gentile, Mackenzie Mowat, Sasha Pieterse, Caroline Ford, and Chelan Simmons
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following review contains frank discussion detailing this film’s sexual content. Parental guidance is advised for young readers.
Good Luck Chuck epitomizes the world’s view of a lot of guys' wildest fantasy: to be in demand by every woman for sex. The problem is that, in playing out this fantasy, audiences are exposed to innumerable sex scenes, including front sex, rear sex, masturbation with sex implements, sex with deformed women, phone sex, videotaped sex and even sex play-acting with a stuffed penguin.
The reason Chuck (Dane Cook) is in demand by every woman is that, when he was ten, he played “Spin the Bottle” with his friends, and a scary Goth witch girl whom Chuck rejected put a curse on him. The curse was this: From then on, every time Chuck would “score” with a girl, that girl would reject Chuck and immediately afterward find and marry the real man of her dreams.
As he gets older, Chuck doesn’t remember the curse, but he—and others—see its effects. At one wedding party, the bride stands up and toasts her good luck charm, Chuck, for enabling her to find her true love. Friends begin to tell Chuck that he’s an official “urban legend,” and word really gets around that, if you want to get married, first get laid by Chuck. Women line up in his dental office, ready to seduce him, most of whom succeed.
Chuck’s best friend, Stu (Dan Fogler), a plastic surgeon specializing in breast augmentation, thinks Chuck is the luckiest guy in town. He encourages his buddy to work the system and get all the action he can. Chuck does so, but after a while, he finds himself unfulfilled. He asks Stu, “What is sex without love?” Stu doesn’t hesitate to answer, “It’s still sex!”
To complicate matters, Chuck meets a beautiful, bumbling woman, Cam (Jessica Alba), whom he has to help (dentally and car-wise) in some very humorous ways. He asks her out, but she’s heard of his reputation and isn’t interested. For some reason her brother, Joe (Lonny Ross), a druggie who also works with her at an amusement park’s penguin exhibit, encourages her to give Chuck a chance and she finally accepts a date with the famous dentist.
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knt3424
9/25/2007 8:52 PM
Be a Christian and 'normal'??? Actually, aren't we called to be "a peculiar people" in I Peter 2:9? :)
mrshmc
9/25/2007 9:47 AM
In response to reilyk5's comments. I'm sorry, but here's a newsflash. When it comes to the trash that comes out of Hollywood and so many people saying this is good, this is a great movie, you have to be able to go somewhere to get an "honest" review" of a movie. Especially since most of the "other" movie critics are paid by the producers. If you want to bash Christianity or being honest about the garbage that is supposed to be "entertaining", go somewhere else instead of cluttering a GOOD website!!!! I fully agree with what the critic of this movie has said. If you want to find a good man out there and want our boys to become good men, then stop shoving garbage down their throats and thinking it is funny!!!!!
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I used to smoke cigarettes and it took me 10 yrs to finally quit. Should I get lung cancer one day, it is my fault for smoking. However in this society, I can blame the tobacco company because they made me smoke??
The point is, I grew up watching movies that maybe I should not have watched. I played video games too. But the difference was having a solid family structure. I grew taking responsibility for my actions. And for all of those who doubt me, I was raised Catholic (oh my,I am a Christian too!)