GOOD LUCK CHUCK
Good Luck Chuck
Chucked Up UNRATED Edition
Features:
Unrated Commentary with
Dane Cook
, Director Mark Helfrich, Producer Mike Katz and Writer Josh Stolberg
4 Chucked-Up Featurettes: Polymastia, Kama Sutra, Frank The Penguin Actor, All About The Penguins
Sex Matrix: 16 "Fierce Thrusting" Positions in an Interactive Matrix
Gag Reel
Deleted and Alternate Scenes
Ad-Libs
Running Time: 101 minutes
Thank God that
Dane Cook’s next film is a
Dr. Seuss movie. We at least know that the material will be something that he can work with because there is nothing for him in
Good Luck Chuck. I guess it makes sense after seeing why
Jessica Alba has recently stated how displeased she was with the end result of the film. It really is a waste of the time and talents of these two actors. Jessica can always fall back on her Marvel franchise of the
Fantastic Four and if Dane still wants to continue acting, he should look for smaller pieces like his roll in
Mr. Brooks
.
Good Luck Chuck is the story of a man named Charlie Logan (Cook). Charlie was cursed by a witch in grammar school because she liked him and he wouldn’t reciprocate her feelings in a game of Seven Minutes in Heaven. In turn, the curse now causes a twenty-something Charlie the misfortune of every woman he sleeps with to marry the next person she dates. It is at the wedding of one of his exes that he meets the beautiful and endearing but unlucky Cam Wexler (Alba). Cam works at the penguin habitat at Aqua World and even has a penguin on her panties as we see at a later point in the movie. Charlie and his friend Stu (the annoying Dan Fogler) have concocted a scheme where Charlie will sleep with any woman that wants to because he has a service to offer and if he can help women find happiness, then her should. This leads to an unnecessarily long and unfunny clip of Charlie having sex with various women in different positions that is reminiscent and an obvious rip-off of the scene in the unrated
Wedding Crashers
. Cam chips her tooth and calls Charlie to repair it as he is in the midst of one of his sessions and he quickly runs to meet her. This leads to an awkward and slightly unbelievable courtship and just as he is about to let himself go and sleep with her, Stu calls and tells him the curse is in effect. Charlie runs out of the apartment because he knows if he sleeps with her, he will inevitably lose her to the next person she goes out with. If you are as confused or bored as I was at this point, then you felt my pain watching it. This leads to Charlie ignoring her for two weeks because he doesn’t want to sleep her, but in turn being annoying by sending her flowers and telegrams and himself in a penguin suit. This leads Charlie to looking up the grammar school girl who put the hex on him and we even see him showing her his penis as he walks into her house. She says she never put a hex on him and Charlie decides to let her go because if it is meant to be she will come back to him. This eventually wraps up with him calling her favorite penguin specialist to meet her and they develop a close working relationship that Charlie thinks is more. We learn he is married when Charlie runs to the airport to meet her as she is to fly to Antarctica with the specialist AND his wife. Whew! We almost didn’t make it. He gives her a pebble because that is how penguins pick mates and they live happily ever after. Thankfully this is where the film ends.
The DVD has a bunch of special features including four featurettes on different things such as the difficult penguin lead actor as well as the story of the penguins and how they got into the movie. There is one featurette that tell show they came up with the different positions for the sex montage and one that explains polymastia (having multiple mammary glands) which he have to learn about because Stu is going to marry a woman with three breasts. There is also an amusing gag reel but mostly to see Alba break character to Cook’s silliness. There are some deleted and extended scenes which don’t offer much to the film. The commentary features Cook as well as the writer, producer and director telling various stories about the film and can be avoided unless you really need to hear Cook talk about how his nipples are his best feature. There is an ad-lib reel that shows Stu, Charlie and the airport security card (a cameo by the always funny Bob Kelly) running different lines over the same scene. The last special feature is what is called the “sex matrix” and is nothing more than the clips from the sex montage broken down into individual edits that you can surf through and watch in any order. It is easy to want to see this film for the always stunning Jessica Alba, but you should show restraint and skip this one.
