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Lucky Chuck: Jessica Alba and Dane Cook |
Raunchy and rather silly, but it works
GOOD LUCK, CHUCK
Directed by Mark Helfrich
Certificate 15
“ALWAYS the bridesmaid, never the bride,” someone caustically remarks to Chuck (Dane Cook) at the umpteenth wedding he has attended, invited by the grateful bride who found her husband through him.
It could also be: “Always in lust, never in love”, because love is what Chuck most dearly wants.
His life took a turn for the worse when hea foolishly insulted a witch at a kids’ party and promptly had a curse put on him – to make him irresistible to women, but with a sting in the tail.
They would fall in love with the next man they set eyes on, not him, and end up at the altar – leaving Chuck, now a successful Vancouver dentist, with the dubious satisfaction of scores of one-night stands, but nothing else in his empty locker.
Eventually he falls for (wait for this one) a penguin keeper at the local zoo (Jessica Alba), who herself is a walking disaster, prone to spectacular pratfalls, bumping into lamp-posts and falling into the penguin pool.
The dialogue is raunchy, perhaps too much for some tastes, with the gags aimed below the belt and
belly laughs abounding.
Despite all the absurdities, I have to admit I left the cinema with a great big smile on my face |
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