Good Luck Chuck

...an alternately warm and ugly ball of whacks.

—Robert Newton Christian Science Monitor

...insulting...

—Ken Fox TV Guide

...hardly a good movie, though clearly nothing with a protracted (and creative!) sex montage is aiming for Citizen Kane status.

—Anne Gilbert filmcritic.com

...nails a decent joke occasionally, but too often strains for laughs.

—Pete Hammond Maxim

...the dirty movie of the year, slimy and scummy...

—Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times

...so undistinguished that it feels like an extended screen test.

—Tim Grierson LA Weekly

For a reminder that stridency gets you nowhere without certain other ingredients, Good Luck Chuck is this year?s low-ender to beat.

—Michael Phillips Los Angeles Times

"How can I say something if I don't feel it?" asks Chuck (Dane Cook) in reference to love, a tell-the-truth sentiment to which I must adhere. So here goes: Dane Cook is not funny.

—Nick Schager Slant Magazine

...if this is what passes for funny, what in the world of comedy doesn't qualify? If Cook going down on a stuffed penguin makes you laugh, anything will do

—Scott Tobias Onion AV Club

For a reminder that stridency gets you nowhere without certain other ingredients, Good Luck Chuck is this year?s low-ender to beat.

—Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune

...doesn't need a review. It needs a tube of ointment and a shot of penicillin.

—Kyle Smith New York Post

I?ve occasionally heard Dane Cook, one of the stars of Good Luck Chuck, described as a comedian. I find this confusing, since my understanding is that comedians are people who say and do things that are funny. Perhaps Mr. Cook is some new kind of conceptual satirist whose shtick is to behave in the manner of a person attempting to be funny without actually being, you know, funny. Or maybe he answered an ad in the back of a magazine and sent away for a mail-order license to practice comedy.

—A. O. Scott New York Times