I think Jessica Alba has discovered her distinct talent: she is a great straight man and a gifted slapstick comedienne. In Good Luck Chuck, we don't feel especially sorry for any of the characters, but we empathize with and relate to them, and can laugh at their antics and escapades in a good natured and fun way.Do yourself a favor and ignore the critics. In just about all of the recent comedies I can think of, the main characters are reject losers that the audience can enjoy laughing at, rather than laughing with.
I also found it refreshing that the main two characters in this movie were a dentist and a doctor, both educated, successful, and well spoken. Yes, there is nudity and sex, but I don't see why this should make a movie disgusting.
The humor is significantly less low-brow than, say, "Superbad", with all of its crude penis jokes and drawings. Gentile is often extremely funny, generally well intentioned, and a good friend to Cook.Many have commented that this movie is crude and disgusting. Troy Gentile's character is criticized on these boards for being misogynistic, but is certainly no more so than Jason Alexander's character in "Shallow Hal".
She is refreshingly understanding and non-jealous about Cook's rather unusual malady. Jessica Alba's character is sweet, funny, and believable in the progression of her relationship with Cook. When he meets the "love of his life", he ignores all of her quite significant flaws and pursues her vigorously. He tries to help people, but certainly doesn't turn down sex with attractive women when it is, quite literally, thrown at him. Dane Cook's character is a good person, in a realistic non-Hollywood sort of way. All of the characters are good-natured and fun, and display realistic responses and a great deal of humanity in reacting to an unusual and very funny situation.
The movie is funny, cute, sexy, fast paced, and never takes itself too seriously. Well, I can tell you that I and my girlfriend both have postgraduate degrees, and both of us loved it. I personally cannot think of any higher praise for a movie.Other IMDb reviewers stated that the only people who would like this movie are college frat boys who want to see "boobies". An oft repeated line I found in reviews was that "this movie is much closer to Caligula than Sleepless in Seattle". Nonetheless, virtually all reviewers seem to decry that this movie refused to take out all the "smut" and revert itself into another in a line of bland and lifeless romantic comedies. With it's initial release on September 21st 2007 it made approximately $59.19m at the Box Office.I generally do not care for, as they tend to be sappy, depressing, and just generally boring. "Good Luck Chuck" was produced by Milestone Entertainment, Lionsgate, Karz Entertainment, Alberta Film Development Program of the Alberta Government and Chuck Productions with a budget of $25m. Right.Ĭertificate: R Sequences of strong sexual content including crude dialogue, nudity, language and some drug useĪudio: English - Audio Description, English Ĭast: Dane Cook, Jessica Alba, Dan Fogler, Ellia English, Sasha Pieterse, Annie Wood, Lonny Ross, Chelan Simmons, Simone Bailly, Jodelle Ferland, Crystal Lowe, Troy Gentile, Georgia Craig, Michelle Harrison, Chiara Zanni Soon, women are dating Chuck in hopes of meeting Mr. Want to keep forever? Try looking for 'Good Luck Chuck' on Amazon (paid link)Įvery time Chuck breaks up with a girlfriend, she ends up engaged to her next boyfriend. Great news! "Good Luck Chuck" is available to watch on Netflix USA!