Go ahead and add one more movie to the worst of 2007 list as Lionsgate’s Good Luck Chuck surpasses all levels of stupidity and hovers just above awful thanks to a heavy dose of female breasts including a .00000009 second shot of Alba side boob that is sure to be screen captured and sent around the Internet as if it was Britney’s cooter.
Dane Cook proves his acting talents are limited to monkey poo and cashew jokes as he stars as the ever so unlikeable Charlie, a rather successful dentist, but there is a curse to Charlie that is good for the females but bad for him. You see when he was just a young boy a leather clad girl got upset when he wouldn’t show her his penis so she hexed him. Now, after Charlie sleeps with a girl (didn’t hear that part of the hex) the next guy she dates she will marry. Word gets out and Charles becomes a hot commodity.
I will admit, the storyline is no more juvenile than a lot of films out there, and some that aren’t all that bad, but there is more.
First strike goes to Dane’s acting, I already said that, but the second strike goes to Dan Fogler who has now twice proven (Balls of Fury) that all the excitement about this 2005 Tony Award winner is all bullshit. Fogler plays plastic surgeon Stu, and he proves he can’t make me laugh no matter how hard he tries to be Chris Farley or whatever comedian he is trying to channel. There is a scene in this film where Charlie and Stu actually go to the park to play Frisbee (because all 30+ guys do that) and he once hits a young kid in the balls with the Frisbee and then clocks an old lady. Yeah, because getting hit with shit is such a new concept for comedy. There is also a scene where he explores the myriad of ways to describe semen, and then it is all topped off as we see his fat ass masturbating with a microwaved grapefruit.
If you haven’t thrown up yet good on yah, let’s explore more. How about Jessica Alba? Lovely right? Can’t act though. Her scenes with Dane should read like this:
Cam (Alba): Hi there. How are you?
Charlie: I am good. It is fun talking.
Cam: Yeah. To talk is fun.
Charlie: You are pretty. Oops, you fell down go boom.
Yes, the dialogue is that bad, and these two aren’t good enough actors to realize it. Alba’s character Cam Wexler is also a notorious klutz, so on top of Fogler humping grapefruit and beaning people with Frisbees we also get Alba slipping on ice, knocking over serving trays, running into poles and diving into car seats. It truly is amateur hour at the movies when Good Luck Chuck starts to roll.
I guess there is one good thing that comes from this, we can assume first-time director Mark Helfrich won’t be helming a whole lot more movies and Dane Cook’s acting career is destined to die sooner rather than later. Unfortunately Alba will remain gorgeous and will continue to get roles due to such beauty, but if she wants to ever be considered a good actress she needs to head on out and get some lessons. I hear Abigail Breslin may take you on as a student Jess, give her a ring.
