Good Luck Chuck 2007

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: The film is some sort of humor-deprivation experiment. Read more

A.O. Scott, New York Times: The main audience for Good Luck Chuck wants to confront one of the central cultural questions of our time: Will Jessica Alba take her top off? Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Some of the audience seemed to be having fun, but for me it was like a Farrelly brothers gross-out without the laughs. Read more

Ted Fry, Seattle Times: It's all rather messy in lots of ways. Fortunately the appealing presence and physical comedy of Cook and Fogler fill a lot of holes that would otherwise just be dirty ditches. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: There's an audience out there for this kind of thing, but if this is what passes for funny, what in the world of comedy doesn't qualify? Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: It's a good device either for science-fiction or romantic comedy. But since there's no intelligence to drive the jokes, the gimmick turns tiresome quick. Read more

Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: First-time director Mark Helfrich brings a ham-fisted insistence on the obvious and a tendency to overstate raunchy humor until the raunch becomes a bore. Read more

Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly: Can we finally just admit that Dane Cook isn't funny? Read more

Mark Bourne, Film.com: What isn't forgivable, though, is being boring, and Good Luck Chuck has all the engaging magnetism of an unflushed toilet. Read more

John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: A desperately unfunny mix of romantic and gross-out comedy. Read more

Tim Grierson, L.A. Weekly: Good Luck Chuck is so undistinguished that it feels like an extended screen test. Read more

Jan Stuart, Newsday: It's a sexed-up, dumbed-down Dr. T and the Women, with penguins to pacify women who've been railroaded into going to this movie by their loutish boyfriends. Read more

Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: There's still time, but for now, Fogler gets my vote for the worst performance of the year. Read more

Kyle Smith, New York Post: The sex jokes, all of them clammy and stale, are reminiscent not of Wedding Crashers but of an Eighth Avenue peep-show booth in 1979. Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Good Luck Chuck has laugh-out-loud moments, many more if you've never outgrown giggling at somebody saying a naughty word. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The final screenplay is as devoid of real emotion as it is of real characters. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Here is the dirty movie of the year, slimy and scummy, and among its casualties is poor Jessica Alba, who is a cutie and shouldn't have been let out to play with these boys. Read more

Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: It's worth mentioning for the third time that this movie is much closer to Caligula than Sleepless in Seattle. Read more

Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Cook has a nice comic personality but zilch in the way of comic material. But then, it's not as if any of those teenage boys are going to care about that. Read more

Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: If you're expecting something smart from Dane Cook, you're out of luck. Read more

Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: I'd like to be able to say they couldn't pay me to see this flick. Alas, it's apparent I can be bought, and pretty cheaply too. Read more

Susan Walker, Toronto Star: Good Luck Chuck looks like the unscreenable bits of bad movies best forgotten retrieved from the cutting-room floor. Read more

Anna Smith, Time Out: The script is so reliant on wish-fulfillment it forgets to add those important little touches: you know, wit, sincerity, characterisation, that kind of thing... A very cheap shot - and hardly anyone calls him 'Chuck'. Read more

Brian Lowry, Variety: A movie that simultaneously squanders its leads and its DVD extras. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Does [Cook] want to lose the hip, smart 20- and 30-somethings his comedy routines are aimed for and become a sort of second-rate Adam Sandler attracting teenagers who giggle like Beavis and Butt-head at shots of naked women and disgusting jokes about sex? Read more