Caffeinated Clint
Early word on what sounds like a ripper comedy!
Clint here. My buddy Josh Stolberg wrote this movie, so I’m hoping and praying it hits big for him. And I think it will, if this review is anything to go by. Sounds like this could be the one – thought “Mr Brooks” might have been, I was wrong – to cement Dane Cook’s career in comedyville.
Here’s ‘Muddy Fitzgerald’ with a look at new Cook/Jess Alba comedy “Good Luck Chuck”.
I was adamant (not Adam Ant) that I’d dislike this movie. I’ve never seen a Dane Cook movie nor have I seen much of his comedy stand-up routines. I’ve only seen Jessica Alba in ‘Sin City’ and in an Italian dubbed version of ‘Fantastic Four’ – OK, understatement, saw her in that bikini on the front of “Into the Blue” as well – so didn’t really have much to go on. It just sounded a little like the studios had a picture they had to off-load somehow and didn’t want it going direct to DVD as some so-called comedy flicks should.
To my surprise, “Good Luck Chuck” delivered in spades – and I’m appreciative not to have to wait for something to hit DVD for once.
I’m obsessed with the 80’s and still hold onto them dearly. The films, the music, the er.. fashions and when this particular movie began with The Cars’ ‘You Might Think’ and then belted out Olivia Newton John’s ‘Physical’, with 1985 supered over the scene, I was instantly drawn in.
The opener had a group of ten year olds playing spin the bottle. Yes, ten year olds, focussing on Charlie Logan and his refusal to show a demented Goth girl his willy when spending 7 minutes in the cupboard. The scene is hilarious and I’m wondering if I should be laughing at a ten year old kid’s first encounter with the opposite sex, but as everyone else was laughing their socks off, I couldn’t give a damn. This poor kid went through it like Vince Vaughn did in ‘Wedding Crashers’ and boy was it funny.
The Goth girl places a hex on him and we forward twenty five years to the present day. Charlie is now Dane Cook and a successful dentist, with his plastic surgeon best friend Stu (Dan Fogler) in a surgery opposite.
Charlie just can’t find the right girl. What’s more he can’t find it inside him to say the words ‘I love you’ and so the girls dump him, after he sleeps with them. However, as soon as they do, the girls tend to find love with the next guy they date and end up marrying them. Hot and extremely clumsy Jessica Alba meet attends a wedding and sits with Charlie. This is where he discovers he has a reputation as a ‘good luck charm’ for women wanting to find that perfect guy. Sexy strangers to overweight receptionists begin to line up for the desired quickie with Charlie.
His best friend Stu can’t believe it and encourages Charlie to take advantage. “What is sex without love?” Says Charlie, with Stu bellowing; “IT’S SEX!!!!” And so what unfolds is this unbelievable montage of sex scenes. My goodness I couldn’t believe it. Dane Cook must have had either an awesome time or an absolutely embarrassing time filming this. I can’t convey how wide-eyed I was as he took these hotties every which way and everywhere. Cars, parks, offices, bedrooms, chairs, with the woman JUST wanting him for that one time, so they’d find Mr. Right soon after.
Exhausted, sad and low, Charlie feels extremely lonely and when the accident prone Ms. Alba, a penguin specialist, chips her tooth in spectacular style and needs an emergency dentist, he begins his quest to pursue her, but it’s bloody hard to resist the sexy Ms. Alba as a genuine romance blossoms. Charlie MUST find a way to rid his curse before he sleeps with her and she winds up with the next guy.
It’s rare you find an actual adult comedy that doesn’t hold back. The first ‘’American Pie’’ kicked it off and ‘’Road Trip’’ tried to follow, but ‘The 40 Year Old Virgin’ secured the title, for the while, of hilarious adult comedy. With ‘Knocked Up’ out in the UK soon, ‘Good Luck Chuck’ will sit tightly with a second place crown and shouldn’t disappoint.
