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Good Luck Chuck Normally, I start to get the
dry heaves when I see Dane Cook on the big screen, but Good
Luck Chuck makes
him likable, even, dare I say it, kind of sweet and charming. Cook stars as Chuck –
a dentist
cursed years ago to a life full of missing out on love.
While he hasn’t quite realized yet, it
turns
out every woman who breaks up with Chuck ends up marrying the next guy
she
dates, which makes him quite popular with the lovelorn and
matrimonially desperate
everywhere. Now, he
has met the woman of
his dreams, Will Chuck win Good
Luck Chuck is
a sweet,
funny, romantic movie interrupted by periods of vile vulgarity. Director Mark Helfrich and
writer Josh
Stolberg want Good
Luck Chuck
to be a comedy in the same spirit as the Judd
Apatow classics like The
40-Year Old Virgin and Knocked Up,
but comes off more
formulaic. It’s
like Helfrich and Meanwhile, Cook makes the
most of Good
Luck Chuck’s sweeter moments.
Surprisingly, he shows some charm and tenderness as
a guy who starts to
realize what he wants out of life, and excels when Chuck is full of
confidence
and exhibits a flirtatious manner.
While
his performance suffers as Chuck supposedly is being driven crazy by
his love
for Cam and fear the curse will take her away, he’ll always
be able to point to
the first half of the movie as his Forrest
Gump, Training
Day or any other
career defining acting performance by someone who will never appear in
a Dane
Cook movie. Then,
Alba starts off the
movie overly cute and trying too hard to be the likable, goofy, klutzy
babe,
but finds her acting footing as Good
Luck Chuck even has a
10-year
old getting hit in the head with a Frisbee, so you know it
will make
you laugh. 2 ½
Waffles (Out of 4) Good Luck Chuck is rated R for sequences of strong sexual content including crude dialogue, nudity, language and some drug use.
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