No Strings, Few Laughs ; Cinema Good Luck Chuck (15, 99 Mins) Comedy/Romance. Dane Cook, Jessica Alba, Dan Fogler. Director: Mark Helfrich. **

Evening Chronicle › November 09, 2007

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MARK Helfrich's misguided romantic comedy will need a lot more than good luck to compete with the hilarious Ratatouille, or even The Heartbreak Kid and Run Fat Boy Run. It will need a miracle.

Written by Josh Stolberg, Good Luck Chuck uses the ultimate male sexual fantasy (a hero granted carte blanche to sleep with as many women as he likes, no strings attached) as the catalyst for an unconvincing tale of boy meets penguin-obsessed girl.

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No Strings, Few Laughs ; Cinema Good Luck Chuck (15, 99 Mins) Comedy/Romance. Dane Cook, Jessica Alba, Dan Fogler. Director: Mark Helfrich. **

Central to the film's numerous flaws are the two-dimensional characters, who are ...

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