It all started when Charlie Kagan was ten years old. Breaking the cardinal rules of spin-the-bottle, Charlie refused to lip-lock with a demented Goth girl – and she put a hex on him. Now, twenty-five years later, Charlie (Dane Cook) is a successful dentist…and still cursed. While his plastic surgeon best friend, Stu (Dan Fogler), pursues as many of his patients as possible, Charlie can’t seem to find the right girl. Even worse, he discovers at an ex-girlfriend’s wedding that every woman he’s ever slept with has found true love – with the next guy after him. Before he knows it, Charlie’s reputation as a “good luck charm” has women – from sexy strangers to his overweight receptionist – lining up for a quickie. But a life filled with all sex and no love has Charlie lonelier than ever – that is, until he meets Cam (Jessica Alba). An accident-prone penguin specialist, Cam is as hard-to-get as she is beautiful. But when a genuine romance develops, Charlie realizes he’s got to find a way to break his good-luck curse…before the girl of his dreams winds up with the next guy she meets.

Even before seeing the film I was starting to get that feeling that Good Luck Chuck’s best parts could be seen by watching the trailer. The film has been getting mixed reviews and you can tell the film was going to be the over the top, sexed up, gross out comedy that can be very hit or miss. Most films that fall into this category find a hard time mixing the sex with an overall good hearted feeling that doesn’t completely leave the audience with the feeling they just wasted their time and money on the movie. But I am firm believer in if your going to be over the top, and you are going to be raunchy just do it, don’t try and placate the audience by also trying to give them that all over warm body tingle. I mean you can’t haven’t it both ways, you can’t be raunchy and crude and then at the same time try and be that feel good type of movie it simply just doesn’t work. Accept what you are and what kind of movie you are and run with it.

I am thinking somewhere, someplace someone said hey why don’t we write a romantic comedy for the guys. This will be like the male “chick” flick, we will have this heart warming love story but we will throw in tons of sex, nudity and just an over all raunch factor, the guys will love it. I am sorry most guys don’t go to “chick” flicks because those aren’t there kind of movies, throwing it in the mud and making it dirty doesn’t make it any more appealing. And most women don’t want a romantic comedy filled with sex jokes, and crude and raunchy behavior. Some things just don’t mix like oil and water and no matter how hard you try you are not going to successfully make them work like you are some mad scientist.

The part that was the most disappointing to the film was it just wasn’t funny, in fact for the most part the movie was boring and very ho hum. I am trying to figure out why people think Dane Cook is funny, I have yet to see him in a movie that I found him funny in. I guess his stand up comedy is funny but that doesn’t mean that is going to translate well to film where he actually has to act and do other things besides tell jokes. The chemistry between him and Jessica Alba was almost non existent, this is the kind of film where you can’t suspend disbelief to actually fool yourself into thinking that these two would ever end up together. Jessica Alba evidently is only in the film as eye candy as she really adds nothing to the movie.

I have also decided that who ever thought it would be a good idea to put Dan Fogler in movies needs to be hunted down and hurt. He ruins each and every single scene he is in, the entire movie. This is the second film in a month I have seen of his that I have to wonder how somebody so untalented and so unfunny every managed to headline movies. I guess he looks like Jack Black a little bit but wait Jack Black is actually funny and does not ruin every movie he is in by just being in it. I figure Fogler made a pact with the devil and we are paying for it by having to watch him in films. This is the kind of movie if you really really needed to see you should wait until video.

Grade: D