The 313 Second Movie Review: "Good Luck Chuck"

Phew! I was able to get this in before the end of the month. Welcome back to the 313 Second Movie Review. I saw this last weekend, but I've had some important issues that prevented from typing this up earlier. Wait no longer, guys, here is my review of "Good Luck Chuck". The film stars Dane Cook as Charlie, and Jessica Alba as Cam Wexler. Our film starts out with a preteen game of Spin-the-Bottle, where of course, nobody has the faintest concept of sex. This does lead to some interesting moments when the two kissers are supossed to spend Seven Minutes in Heaven. Our hero, Charlie, spins, and it lands on a crazy-ass Goth girl. She begins ravaging him in the closet, and of course, Charlie wants nothing to do with it. As he's running for his life, the Goth girl places a hex upon him. Yeah, I know. Ten-year-old casting a hex doesn't know what she's talking about. But it does work. The Goth girl cursed Chuck so that whoever he slept with, that woman would marry the next person she met. Pretty soon, as he grows up and becomes a dentist, Charlie finds that the rumor that if you sleep with help, you'll find Mr. Right next to be true. At the behest of his childhood friend, Stu, a misogynist plastic surgeon specializing in breasts, he starts sleeping with women as a community service. Of course, things start changing for Charlie when he meets Cam, an animal trainer obsessed with the very animals she works with, penguins. Charlie falls hard, and I mean hard, for Cam, despite the fact that whenever she's around, somebody is going to get hurt. The problem for Charlie is, Cam wants to seal the deal. Here, Butch. I know you don't like the idea of Dane Cook hooking up with Jessica Alba, so here's a puke bucket. To see if it's safe to hit a home run with Cam, Charlie decides to test his curse by sleeping with the rudest, smelliest, fattest, most unattractive woman you will ever see. Guess people will do crazy things in the name of love. I'll hold it right there so I don't blow the plot. Now, this is an excellent idea for a date movie. The comedy and romance are balance each other out nicely so one doesn't trump the other. And of course, movies like "Good Luck Chuck" are nothing without gross-out gags, including a penguin eating it's own droppings and Stu reenacting that scene from "American Pie" with a grapefruit. My problem with this film is when Charlie starts growing desperate, he seems clueless and makes you want to yell out the screen, "DON'T DO IT, YOU IDIOT!" However, Dane and Jessica have perfect chemistry and work great together. As for you who say Dane Cook can do stand-up but not acting, this will serve as an "I told you so". Certainly a movie you should take the time to go see.

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