With a cast of thousands (almost) there are a dozen (literally) storylines involving couples … this is a super-sized date/romantic comedy/chick flick movie… don’t expect amazing performances or an award-winning screenplay, but it is a fun, entertaining, mushy movie for what it is.

The storylines are all intertwined … Ashton, Jessica, Bradley, Julia, Patrick, Jennifer, Jamie, George, Anne, and Topher… but the movie is slightly formulaic, shallow, and predictable.

(My spoiler-free review)

A day in the life of relationships in Los Angeles on Valentine’s Day… engagements, break-ups, make-ups, and hook-ups… the all-star cast features romantic comedy veterans and a lot of theories of love on the biggest day of the year for commercial romance.

While the movie is entertaining and interesting, its everything you would expect in a romantic comedy with about a dozen intersecting stories of love: mushy, mushy, then heartbreak, then mushy, mushy, and some other heartbreak… a lot of the character development is shallow… and as all the storylines weave to a close in the final moments of the movie: predictable and somewhat formulaic endings.

THE BOTTOM LINE:  (more…)

(RE-POSTING from 11/6/08)

‘Good Luck Chuck’: good, raunchy, funny

“Good Luck Chuck” is a pretty good effort for “R” rated and raunchy romantic comedies… with a good story and a twist of chemistry between Dane Cook and the women in this movie… but its a little bit formulaic like other romantic comedies before it…

 

“Good Luck Chuck”

(2007) (rated: R for sequences of strong sexual content including crude dialogue, nudity, language and some drug use)(1 hr, 36 min)

Starring: Dane Cook, Jessica Alba, Dan Fogler Genre: Romantic Comedy/RAUNCH-ROM-COM

The Plot: In order to keep the woman of his dreams from falling for another guy, Charlie Logan has to break the curse that has made him wildly popular with single women: Sleep with Charlie once, and the next man you meet will be your true love.