Good Luck Chuck, short story by Steve Glenn

Good Luck Chuck, short story by Steve Glenn

Good Luck Chuck did not bring any good fortune for those participating in this motion picture.

                The critics have destroyed it.

                In addition, the public thinks it is just a 5.6, on a scale from one to ten…

                The Metascore is an unbelievable, hard to find…19, which is so humiliatingly close to…zero!!!

                Indeed, even if Dane Cook, Jessica Alba and some of the other members of the cast make the effort, the results are not quite notable.

The premise is silly, with a curse that follows Doctor Charlie Logan into adulthood, after being uttered when he was a child.

He brings Good Luck to the women dating him, but he seems to be unable to get happiness for himself.

"Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did."

                This is a quote from James Baldwin that describes what happens with Charlie.

Women call him all the time, and a few gay men.

When they meet, he is the one who wants to take things easy, he has enough sex and thinks of other things.

However, the partners are interested in the Talisman Effect.

One jumps on him as they are entering the open top car and she wants to have intercourse with no foreplay.

For some, this could look funny.

Only it could also be creepy.

In the age of MeToo, this is probably unacceptable.

There is another scene in which one of his assistants wants him to “help” her with his Good Luck.

She says she has seen this miracle on youdate.com, mentoget.com and therefore she wants the blessing.

The aforementioned sites are invented.

It means that the hero is invited to have sex, a million times and again, with a woman who weighs maybe two hundred kilos.

Apart from being sexist, this is alos indicating other misgivings.

However, when boy meets girl wonder, or Wonder Woman Jessica Alba, love is in the air and the atmosphere sparkles.

Jessica Alba aka Cam Wexler is beautiful, but so gauche.

It is a comedy, but the slapstick is awkward and embarrassing, not amusing.

She slips hot wax over Charlie, then breaks one tooth, has to ask for his professional help and refuses a date.

To begin with…

She leaves the lights on and then needs assistance, only to realize that she has also left the keys in the car…

Is she stupid?

Well…

To end with, there is probably only one scene that is worth watching, except perhaps those where beauty can admired in spite of silliness.

Charlie sends all manner of gifts to the woman he loves, from over ten thousand flowers to signs on her Toyota:

“About to get married”

They are all exaggerated and amount to a possible harassment case, with the exception of the band of four.

Four men in their forties are perhaps the climax, the only interesting, funny moment of the film:

They sing a version of a modern, popular, maybe a rap song in such a different, paradoxical style that one has to laugh.