Do not watch this movie with your parents. Or, for that matter, anywhere in the vicinity of the suburb in which your parents live. The penguin-themed rom-com 'Good Luck Chuck' is at least two-thirds gratuitous sex-scenes. Some of them involving penguins.
The words 'bad-taste' don't even begin to describe this seriously unfunny romp in the misogynistic mind of screenwriter Josh Stolberg.
Charlie Logan aka Chuck (Dane Cook) is cursed. Every woman he sleeps with goes on to meet and marry the love of her life after she has ditched him. As soon as a rumour about his 'lucky charm' curse spreads, every woman in America is clamouring to sleep with him.
Chuck gets laid a lot. And you get to watch it all in a series of split-screen montages. This movie has it all — positions which defy the laws of physics and the flexibility of the human body.
While Chuck is happy to fulfil his civic duty (he even does the fat girls), everything changes when he meets Cam (Jessica Alba), a beautiful but pathologically clumsy penguin researcher.
Can Chuck resist sleeping with Cam? Is the curse real? And can he get the teenage witch who hexed him to remove the spell? Do we care?
No, not really.
Jessica Alba is really all this movie has going for it. And that says a lot. Guys can ogle at her stupendous beauty, while their girlfriends giggle as she falls over and bumps into stuff. And if that doesn't do it for you, there is always the woman with three boobs.