Good Luck Chuck

“Good Luck Chuck” is a romantic comedy with content targeting a largely male audience. The tale of “Good Luck Chuck” begins when Chuck (Dane Cook) is 10 years old and refuses to kiss a Goth girl. She then places a curse on Chuck making him a lucky charm for women wanting to find their one true love, however only after they have made love to him. He is basically the four leaf clover of sex.

Chuck becomes the center of female sexual attention when at the wedding of an ex-girlfriend she proclaims him to be the reason she found her true love, citing him as her lucky charm. This gains him the attention of what seems to be every single woman in the city.

At the wedding, Chuck meets accident prone Cam Wexler (Jessica Alba) who provides much of the film’s physical slapstick comedy. She was a joy to watch, for the most part. There are few comedies where a woman provides the slapstick entertainment.

Unfortunately, the film suffers from the many worldly values that dictate its view of true sexuality. During the film, Chuck comes to many crossroads and after getting some not so great advice from his long time friend Stu (Dan Fogler), who to me was a great representation of the serpent in the garden of Eden, he tantalizes Chuck with questions… would it really be that bad? …go on you know you want to. This often leads Chuck to make poor decisions.

The message of the film becomes confused with the many images of sex; it seems to say that sex with many different partners is fine because you should try before you buy, and who knows, your next one is right around the corner. It makes the statement that sex with many partners bears no consequences.

Offensive Content— “Good Luck Chuck” was one of the most difficult movies I had to sit through as a Christian. There is very little violence, however there is enough violence of the mind to grieve the Holy Spirit within every Christian. I had to close my eyes at the amount of nudity and sex scenes which were in this movie. In fact, this film is very much porn which has swooped underneath the radar of classification officials.

There is a large amount of profanity, with the film inventing new ways to refer to sexual organs in a rude and crude manner, and I lost count of the amount of times the Lord’s name was taken in vain. One scene shows a male getting what would have only be described as raped if it had happened to a female. Women are presented as predatory and sexual objects, all at the same time, with Chuck finding the one woman who continues to turn down his advances the one he feels to be for him. There are references to all sorts of sexual behaviour which I will not mention here, as it is all too explicit.

There are scenes which will disturb you, and it is definitely not a film I would take a child to.

The movie tries to redeem itself at the end, however one year later does not compare to 50 years later and never will.

Violence: Mild / Profanity: Extreme / Sex/Nudity: Heavy

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