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.