I went to Good Luck Chuck with the lowest of expectations. I knew that Dane Cook would be in it, so how good could it possibly be? I only went because I had a small window of time in which to see a movie, and GLC was the only movie that fit. Even so, it was far worse than I had anticipated, and my time would have been better spent Googling "Jessica Alba".
The movie begins with a scene that is borderline child pornography and involves a preteen girl tearing off her shirt and demanding sex from the preteen version of the eponymous Chuck. He denies her, and she curses him to be always a groomsman but never the groom.
After that we are subjected to annoying characters and unfunny jokes. Cook is irritating. Alba is beautiful and winning but not very funny. And Dan Fulger, who plays the best friend, made me cringe time and time again with his terrible delivery of terrible lines.
A small bright spot is brought by 30 Rock's Lonny Ross, who plays Alba's stoner brother and manages to milk a chuckle or two from an awful script. And as long as you have Alba to look at things can't be all bad . . . but other than that this film is atrocious.
The movie begins with a scene that is borderline child pornography and involves a preteen girl tearing off her shirt and demanding sex from the preteen version of the eponymous Chuck. He denies her, and she curses him to be always a groomsman but never the groom.
After that we are subjected to annoying characters and unfunny jokes. Cook is irritating. Alba is beautiful and winning but not very funny. And Dan Fulger, who plays the best friend, made me cringe time and time again with his terrible delivery of terrible lines.
A small bright spot is brought by 30 Rock's Lonny Ross, who plays Alba's stoner brother and manages to milk a chuckle or two from an awful script. And as long as you have Alba to look at things can't be all bad . . . but other than that this film is atrocious.