Starring Billy Bob Thornton as the abusive gym teacher Mr. It is a little hard for me to believe that director Craig Gillespie, who went on to make the superior dramedy Lars and the Real Girl, could direct a film that looks and sounds as stupid as Mr. Some people still found it amusing though, with Pam Grady of the San Francisco Chronicle commenting, “It lives up to the one unbendable commandment of comedy: It’s funny.” Still, more than a few pointed out that it’s really not that funny a movie. If you compare this film to Good Luck Chuck, the critics certainly found a lot more to enjoy about The Ten. There’s Paul Rudd, Jessica Alba, Famke Janssen, Liev Schreiber, and Winona Ryder, to name a few, and together they take on the Thou-shalt-nots of the Bible with irreverent bliss. This oddball little comedy takes aim at the Ten Commandments with a number of stars that seem to be slumming it for kicks. As Roger Ebert said in the Chicago Sun-Times, “Here is the dirty movie of the year, slimy and scummy, and among its casualties is poor Jessica Alba, who is a cutie and shouldn’t have been let out to play with these boys.” Jessica Alba co-stars as Charlie’s love-interest, who happens to be a clumsy zookeeper perpetually followed by mini-disasters.Īcross the board, no matter which major critic you look at, Good Luck Chuck was one of the most resolutely unliked films of 2007. Playing the role of Charlie Logan, a cursed man who causes every woman he sleeps with to find true love the next day, the film is the usual gross-out comedy filled with sex and bad jokes. The premise almost sounds like genius, but the film is about as far from smart as you can get, and perhaps that should be evident from the fact that it stars comedian Dane Cook. Woodcock, the kid-friendly adventure The Last Mimzy, and the suspense-driven Fracture starring Anthony Hopkins. Yes, I know I’m reading a lot out of a broad comedy that doesn’t try to fly too high and that doesn’t hide its Maxim roots much under its coating of a rom-com, but still… Let’s just say that I’m not going to keep this DVD.This week’s new films arriving on DVD include the raunchy comedy Good Luck Chuck with Dane Cook and Jessica Alba, biblical spoof The Ten with Paul Rudd, high school comedy Mr. I was getting a Shallow Hal vibe all of a sudden, in that the movie sends the message that being a fat man is no big deal, but being a fat woman (and black too?) is to be repulsive and unattractive. I couldn’t stand it, and I stopped the DVD, as I refused to continue watching it. It was bad enough that she was portrayed as being desperate, although Cook’s reaction is at least redeemable when he gives in to her, but where the straw broke was in the following scene, when Cook’s buddy, played by Dan Fogler (himself on the fat side), reacted to the news thusly: “ewwwww, you *had sex* with her?”, as if that was such a perverted (or sick, or unthinkable) thing to do. women who sleep with him meet the man of their lives afterwards). Until I got to the scene where the fat black receptionist (played by Ellia English) hit on Cook because he’s a good luck charm (ie. I wasn’t too impressed with the film but I let it continue…

Nonetheless, I continued watching despite the movie’s incessant sexism - all the women in the movie, except for Dane Cook’s black receptionist are young, pretty (as per societal standards), slim and white (yes, I include Jessica Alba in there because, despite of her latina background, she’s definitely treated as a white woman). At first, I thought it was going to be your typical rom-com, but it wasn’t long before I realized that it was more of a bro-com (ie.

Yesterday, as I stayed home sick with a cold, I decided to watch Good Luck Chuck on DVD (it was given to me by a friend). Wow, it’s been nearly a year since my last post! It isn’t that I opted out of the FA movement, far from it, but I didn’t feel like I had much to add to what others have posted in their blogs.

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