Good Luck Chuck (DVD, 2008, Unrated - Widescreen)

'Good Luck Chuck' (UNRATED) is a hilarious raunchy romantic comedy; bred from Judd Apatow-style design. In the films attempt to mine comic gold from a high-concept premise (like Apatow's success' - '40 Year Old Virgin' & Knocked Up' & 'Superbad'), first-time Director Mark Helfrich and Screenwriter Josh Stolberg resort to usual, gross-out slapstick gags, (i.e., fart jokes, obese women, sexual pratfalls), and execute them with flair and ingenuity. Embedded in this (definately entertaining) comedy we uncover stars Dane Cook and Jessica Alba; a very very likeale team.
In the most recent bid to the big screen; following noted success with 'Employee of the Month', "Tourgasm" stand-up comedian Dane Cook plays the title character, nice-guy Dentist Charlie Logan, who's been suffering under a particularly nasty curse since childhood: 'every woman he sleeps with always finds everlasting love with the next guy she dates'.
While his sex-obsessed, foul-mouthed Plastic Surgeon buddy Stu (Dan Fogler) envies Charlie's "Gift" — women are lining up to sleep with him to find their "Mr. Right" immediately after. Charlie is tired of being nothing more than a means to an end. So when he meets the gorgeous, down-to-earth, and endearingly klutzy Cam (Alba), (a penguin specialist at 'Aqua World'), Charlie's determined to break the curse.
Hilarity ensues.
Commence the "laugh 'til you hurts"....
According to the press notes, Stolberg originally envisioned 'Good Luck Chuck' as a PG-13 film; but Helfrich persuaded him to turn it into an R-Rated Raunchfest; because of the success of Apatow's 'The 40 Year-Old Virgin' and 'The Wedding Crashers' (amongst others previously noted). And to be fair, a few of the filmmakers' racier ideas are extremely amusing, like a Kama Sutra-inspired montage sequence.
With Helfrich and Stolberg's slapdash, bottom feeder approach, the laughs are generated at a striking pace and alarmingly (borderline-offensive) outright hilarious. A primary casualty of their ruptured raunch execution is Fogler ('Balls of Fury'), playing Cook's "perv" sidekick, who does unspeakable things with a grapefruit in a bit that should turn people off all citrus fruits for a long, long time., and have you pressing pause until you somehow stop laughing and wiping away the shock.
As for Cook, his character mutates into a manic who understandably repels the object of his desperate affections. Alba fares very well also, and looks stunning throughout; while frankly generating some eye-popping comic (near slapstick - but more abrupt) clumsy humor.
Overall, 'Good Luck Chuck' (UNRATED) is a guaranteed funhouse. A hilarious cast and a promising night of great laughs. It's only (1) star fall; is maybe just the timing of the films release....because after we have luxuriously laughed ourselves into a frenzy with Judd Apatow's brilliance; this film is just barely under Apatow's radar which is all 5-Star.
DO NOT MISS THIS THOUGH !!!!
Enjoy !!

Features actors; Jessica Alba & Dane Cook
Rating:R
Running time:101 Min.


Charlie Logan (Dane Cook) is a thirty-something dentist who has never fallen in love, not that he hasn't tried. In fact, he's become very popular with the ladies, because word has spread that after he sleeps with a woman, she always marries the very next guy she dates. As a result, he's come to be considered something of a good luck charm by eligible bachelorettes who hear their biological clock ticking. They all want him for just one night of passion, no strings attached, so they can then immediately settle down with Mr. Right. So, with the help of his best friend since childhood, Stu (Dan Fogler), a plastic surgeon who specializes in breast implants, Chuck has kept pretty busy providing stud service to a neverending string of frustrated females. However, everything finally changes the day he crosses paths with Cam (Jessica Alba), a clumsy cutie who works at the zoo in the penguin cage. Convinced that she's the girl of his dreams, Chuck suddenly wants to end his womanizing way to make sure that she won't sleep with him only to ditch him for someone else.
This proves to be easier said than done, as he first has to figure out how to break the curse, and thereby stop strangers from throwing themselves at him.

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If you havent seen this movie yet, dont worry you'll LOVE it! It's a hilarious romantic comedy. Dane cook and jessica alba are a great team. I saw this movie in the theaters and loved it just as much when i watched it a 2nd and 3rd time. Dane cook plays a guy (chuck) who is cursed at a 10 year olds birthday party while playing 7 minutes in heaven with a girl who hex's him. So Dane lives out his life as a good luck charm for every girl he dates, they find there true love with the next guy they date. Jessica alba plays a sweet but very clumsy girl who chuck (dane cook) ends up falling for but is afraid he'll loose her because of the curse. This movie will keep you laughing til the end! Please note though it is very funny, there is alot of nudity in it, so its not recommended for children.

THIS WAS A REALLY GREAT MOVIE - EXCELLENT ACTING FROM BOTH ALBA AND COOK. COOK IS MORE OF A FUNNY ROMANTIC LIKE EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH WHICH IS FAR FETCHED FROM HIS NORMAL GROSS HUMOR (WAITING...) I THOUGHT IT WAS ONE OF THE BEST IVE SEEN IN A WHILE. JESSICA IS ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL AND CUTE WITH HER "IMPERFECTIONS" AND CLUTZYNESS :) THE STORY WAS GREAT AND SO WAS THE ENDING. THE UNRATED VERSION IS DEFINETLY NOT FOR CHILDREN WITH A LOT OF SEX HUMOR AND "BREAST" SHOTS. BUT ON THE OTHER HAND IT IS HILARIOUS!! ALL AROUND A TERRIFIC MOVIE. I GOT THIS FROM NETFLIX AND WATCHED IT 3X - MY FIANCE AND I BOTH LOVED IT - DEFINETLY NOT JUST A GIRLIE MOVIE! ENJOY!

As expected, this movie has the usual romantic comedy formula: idiotic storyline and predictable ending. Those who expect to see a wisely written and surprising finale on a genre like this know they are wasting their time.

"Good Luck Chuck" has created mixed emotions among the audience. This can be seen by the reviews already posted in here. Some people, with a fair amount of reason, tend to link the excess of nudity and dirty jokes with lack of good ideas for the plot. I really don't have a problem with unrated scenes, but I feel bad for those who have. For those people, there is always a "clean" option to choose from, but what's the point in always creating two versions of a same film when only one, with good taste scenes only, can please all audiences? By the example of "Good Luck Chuck" and many other sex-oriented comedy movies, this seems to be the norm. With some creativity in the head, you can always be dirty and instigating without being almost obscene.

So when I say this movie is laughable in the good sense, I mean there are some jokes and situations that will really make you give a genuine laugh (that's what comedy movies are made for, right?) and just because of that you should watch it at least for once. Laughable in the bad sense means that every effort to make this movie convincing for the storyline and that adding a lot of short sex and nudity passages would fill the gap of a poor plot is just ridiculous. But like I said above, this wasn't really the intention.