Friday, October 5, 2007

The Unlucky Chuck : “Good Luck Chuck”

Funny and Nudity, are the two words that best describe this romantic comedy film directed by Mark Helfrich. The movie is based on the short story of Steve Glenn where the character Charlie (Dane Cook), who is not really called as "Chuck," except in the title, was cursed by an 11-year old goth girl during a 1985 game of spin-the-bottle party. He fights off her enthusiastic sexual assault so she issued a curse that “every woman he falls in love with will leave him and immediately find the man of her dreams.” From then, started the hilarious and misadventure packed movie.

Charlie grows up to become a dentist with an office next to his plastic-surgeon pal Stu(Dan Fogler). His best friend is still the short, chubby, curly-haired. Stu, obsessed by breasts, has grown up to become a cosmetic surgeon specializing in breast enlargements. When they attend the wedding of one of Chuck’s exes, he begins to realize that every girl he ever had a relationship with has found happiness with the next man she met. And then suddenly Charlie, who has been unlucky in love, fall head-over-heels for the accident-prone Cam (Jessica Alba), who works at a sea aquarium and loves penguins so much. Charlie love Cam so much but he recognizes the horrible truth: if he has sex with Cam, he will lose her forever. Even worse, the rumor spreads around the town about his curse but he still get a lot of dates and of course sex with the girls in town, but no true romance. Women only want him so they can find a life partner in whoever follows him into their lives. How will this paradox be resolved? Will Charlie finally find his true love?

The movie lasts for 96 minutes and it has been released last September 21, 2007 in more than 2600 theaters worldwide. The MPAA rated the movie “R” for sequences of strong sexual content including crude dialogue, nudity, language and some drug use.