Good Luck Chuck

Look...I'll make it simple. I like *...really kinky stuff, so I'm not put off by sex...and I have no problem with raunchy comedy. I also didn't view this film with a lot of high expectations. Bottom line...this film is not funny or sexy. It's just plain dumb. No, it's not ANYTHING like Superbad or 40 Year Old Virgin...It's not even like There's Something About Mary. It's not a "turn your mind off and enjoy the ride" comedy, it's just bad. Seriously, if you think this film is anything like the previously mentioned films, you probably can't tell the difference between champagne and Coca Cola. Good Luck Chuck has more in common with many of the ridiculously bad 80's comedies than more contemporary films. The jokes are stale and lame. Dane Cook and Jessica Alba have about as magic on screen as an ass full of colon cancer. They make Jim Varney/Ernest P. Worrell seem like Patton Oswald in comparison. In summary...there's fun, low brow humor and there's lousy film making...Good Luck Chuck is the yawn inducing result of the latter. I haven't seen this much lack of comedic imagination committed to film since The Adventures of Ford Fairlane. Avoid this film.

Yesterday a friend and I wanted to rent a movie. So I suggested "Good Luck Chuck." So we rented it and saw it and it was one of the funnier movies I have seen this year. After seeing it I went on IMDb to see what other people have said. And this movie was given an overwhelmingly large pile of bad reviews. The one main complaint that I saw was that there were too many sex jokes. But what people don't understand is that the sex ties in with the premise of the movie. What I mean is the movie is about a guy that has sex with women and then they get married. So if that doesn't sound interesting to you then why would you pay $10.50 to see it. Another factor is that there is not only one kind of comedy. This is a raunchy comedy and on that point it delivers what it said it would. So maybe you should rent it instead.

This movie was unbearable! It not that it didn't have it's funny parts in the first third of the movie that we saw, it just was so overboard with all the offensive sex and crudeness. The parts that were funny were all classical physical humor scenes, and we laughed at those scenes. It's just that we felt bombarded by the sex and nudity. A final note: Hollywood's apparent obsession with naked guy's bare rears is pissing me off. I've seen The Wedding Crashers and The 40 Year Old Virgin, both of which could have been just as funny with out the crass scenes. I know that some people say that these lewd scenes are what define these films, but in my opinion the good old comedy that has been in films from the days of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin is what makes these films work. Cut out most of the gratuitous sex and over the top raunchiness and these films would be just as funny. Good Luck Chuck was a shame of a film. It could have been funny just building on the plot lines of Alba's character was a sweet but clumsy girl and Cook's character was a guy who was always the last relationship for lots of girls just before they meet Mr. Right. He should of been a guy that had an actually relationship with these girls but instead they made it all about sex as if that was what constituted a relationship. After the second sex montage we couldn't take any more of the filth and walked out.