The lucky charm

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Movie
German title The lucky charm
Original title Good luck chuck
Country of production USA , Canada
original language English
Publishing year 2007
length 96 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
JMK 12
Rod
Director Mark Helfrich
script Josh Stolberg
production Tracey E. Edmonds
Mike Karz
Barry Katz
Brian Volk-Weiss
music Aaron Zigman
camera Anthony B. Richmond
cut Julia Wong
occupation

Good Luck Chuck (Original: Good Luck Chuck ) is a Canadian-American comedy from director Mark Helfrich from the year of 2007.

action

The film begins with a flashback to 1985. Ten-year-old children play Seven Minutes in Heaven , a variant of the spin the bottle in which boys and girls can each go into a large closet for seven minutes and do whatever they want with each other. Ten-year-old Charles "Chuck" Logan refuses to kiss a goth girl named Anisha, who says she has loved Chuck forever, and also to see his penis. Vengeful, the angry rejected woman then places a curse on him, which is supposed to bring him unhappiness in love. Every woman with whom he will have sexual intercourse in the future will find the man for life with the next partner.

25 years later, Charlie works as a successful dentist with his own practice. When his ex-girlfriends find their dream partner on their next date shortly after their mutual love affair has ended, the reputation as a “lucky charm” gradually precedes him, initially unnoticed by him. Single women see the opportunity to find perfect happiness by having sex with him once. As a result, Charlie can hardly save himself from admirers who, on the other hand, do not want to enter into a long relationship with him. At an ex-girlfriend's wedding party, the single falls in love with the clumsy zookeeper Cam, who abruptly leaves the festivities after several mishaps.

During her weekend work in the zoo's penguin enclosure, Cam slips when her stoned brother accidentally throws a fish at her and is then fouled by a penguin . She breaks a tooth and contacts Charlie because there is no dentist open on the weekend. The dentist vehemently refuses payment and instead demands a dinner together, which she refuses. But then she needs his help a second time, namely to start her car. And then she also has to let him drive her to her apartment because she accidentally put her car key in the car and then closed it and she has to get her second key from home.

Cam lets himself into a dinner together. The date goes well and a relationship slowly develops between the two of them. But when Cam is ready to go to bed with Charlie and want to seduce him, Stu calls him to remind him of the curse that weighs on him. Charlie also threatens to lose Cam if he has sex with her. So he saves himself from the situation by not too convincingly pretending to have received an emergency call and hurries out of the room.

For the next two weeks he pretends to have a bad cold and only keeps in touch with Cam by phone. He wants to put the curse to the test, and he sleeps with the most repulsive woman he can find. First he waits some time to see if she can find a boyfriend and husband, when that doesn't happen, he instigates his friend Stu to go out with the woman to see if they are going to be a couple. During a phone flirt with his love Cam, Stu calls him and reports that he has gone out with the ugly woman and they have not gotten together, so the curse cannot be true. Of course, that inspires Charlie and he rushes to Cam, where the two finally pursue their urges. But the next morning Charlie accidentally sees the repulsive woman on TV as she walks through the streets hand in hand with a man. He immediately contacts Stu, who admits that he has not been out with the woman after all. Charlie is shocked. To top it all off, he discovers an appointment with a certain George in Cam's calendar and thinks it is a date. He already thinks his love is lost.

Over the next few days he spoils Cam above all else - he wakes her up with breakfast that is spread out on countless plates all over the bed, sends her tons of flowers and heart-shaped balloons, an a cappella ribbon and lets herself into a penguin costume bring a gift box into the room. Cam then feels stalked and breaks up.

Chuck now remembers Anisha and her curse. He looks for her address, goes to her - she no longer looks like a Gothic and has a daughter - and pleads with her to take the curse off him. He also shows her his penis. She says she was just a kid and didn't really know what she was doing. He could only let his beloved go.

And Chuck does. He even calls a well-known penguin scientist, Howard, and arranges to meet with Cam. You can see how the two meet, he is just as clumsy as she is, and you can see them taking photos of the birds together in the penguin enclosure, apparently getting along very well.

Some time later, Charlie can be seen playing a video game with penguins in his living room, which is already slightly shabby. Stu comes to visit him and explains that Cam is flying to Antarctica with Howard that same day . First Charlie says he's happy for Cam, but then he pulls himself out of his lethargy; he rushes to the airport and buys tickets for a lot of money for both flights going to Antarctica. After not finding Cam on the first plane, he rushes to the second, where he explains his feelings to her and learns that Howard, whom Charlie has suspected of being Cam's "dream man", is actually already married. It shows Anisha with a voodoo doll from Chuck, who she pulls a needle out of his body. Now Charlie and Cam are getting back together.

Soundtracks

  1. I Was Zapped By The Lucky Super Rainbow - The Flaming Lips
  2. Always The Same - Headway
  3. Good Luck Chuck - The Dandy Warhols
  4. Love It When You Call- The Feeling
  5. Accident Prone - The Honorary Title
  6. Good Weekend - Art Brut
  7. You're Gonna Get It - Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
  8. Hurry Up Let's Go - Shout Out Louds
  9. Shut Me Out - Aidan Hawken
  10. You Might Think - The Cars
  11. Physical - Olivia Newton-John
  12. Bela Lugosi's Dead - Bauhaus

Reviews

The reviews are mostly negative. The critics criticize the low level of the comedy, which tries too hard to score with sex. At most, the main actress Jessica Alba is rated positively. The lexicon of international films sees the film as post-pubescent, sexistically heated clothes disguised as a romantic comedy and extremely lacking in humor. The cinema.de critic attests Alba "a passable figure", but says that "the makers of this film [...] forgot to write the script in view of its sharp curves". The web portal MSN cites a quote from the main actor and writes: “What main actor Dane Cook [...] describes as 'a painful foreplay in the length of a film' actually hurts the viewer quite a bit. Only the enchanting leading actress provides a bit of charm in this coarse and, unfortunately, largely uncomfortable sex comedy. "The assessment of kino.de is more positive:" Mark Helfrich, who has so far appeared as an editor, is an original comedy with strong romantic tendencies [...] staged with the attractive Jessica Alba [...] and is therefore fully in line with the current comedy trend. "The reviewer of cineclub.de regrets that the initial" gag fireworks [...] after this steep climb subsided considerably "and nevertheless praises them Leading actors who make "all in all a wonderfully funny couple on screen".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for The Lucky Charm . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2007 (PDF; test number: 111 880 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for The Lucky Charm . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ The lucky charm. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ The lucky charm. cinema.de, accessed on July 16, 2009 .
  5. ↑ A painful foreplay. MSN , accessed November 23, 2012 .
  6. ↑ The lucky charm. kino.de, accessed on July 16, 2009 .
  7. ↑ The lucky charm. cineclub.de, accessed on July 16, 2009 .