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->''True love is a blessing and a curse.\\
She's the blessing.\\
He's cursed.''
-->-- '''{{Tagline}}'''

''Good Luck Chuck'' is a 2007 American RomanticComedy film where lots of women want to sleep with Creator/DaneCook [[Website/{{Cracked}} for some contrived and difficult-to-explain reason]].

When Charlie Logan (Cook) was ten years old, he was cursed by a teen goth after he refused to kiss her during TenMinutesInTheCloset. The curse causes any woman Charlie sleeps with to find their soulmate in the next man they meet.

Twenty-some years later, Charlie works as a dentist, and is still cursed. Every woman he's had sex with has broken up with him and immediately married the next man she met. Charlie is invited to the wedding of one of these women, and there he meets CuteClumsyGirl and LoveInterest Cam (Creator/JessicaAlba). By a twist of fate, Cam chips her tooth by falling while working in a penguin habitat, and goes to Charlie to get it fixed. He asks her on a date in return, and she agrees.

Meanwhile, Charlie's friend Stu (Creator/DanFogler) convinces him to take advantage of his curse and have [[SexMontage sex with any woman who comes his way]]. He does, and each woman gets married soon afterward.

Afraid Cam will marry another man, too, Charlie [[CantHaveSexEver avoids having sex with her at all costs]]. HilarityEnsues.

Not to be confused with ''Series/GoodLuckCharlie''.[[note]]''Definitely'' [[ValuesDissonance not to be confused]] with ''Good Luck Charlie''.[[/note]]

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!This film provides examples of the following tropes:

* AbhorrentAdmirer: The fat, acne-ridden Eleanor Skepple starts out as an {{inver|tedTrope}}sion, since Charlie has to pay ''her'' for a date in order to test whether he is cursed such that any woman he sleeps with to marry the next man he meets. But once he explains he wants to "get physical," she becomes terrifyingly eager about the whole thing, and he is shown frantically scrubbing himself in the shower afterward.
%%** Anisha was this for Charlie in the film's opening.
* AffectionateNickname: Cam says he brother calls her "Murphy" as a reference to MurphysLaw due to her being TheKlutz.
* AnimalMotifs: Cam ''loves'' penguins, and has several objects and decorations around her house themed around them. Even [[GoofyPrintUnderwear her underwear]] has penguins on them.
* BathtubScene: Cam and Charlie and both having bubble baths while [[BathtubBonding talking to each other on the phone]].
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: The only damage Cam seemed to receive from falling on an ice slide is a chipped tooth.
* BlessedWithSuck: Whoever Charlie sleeps with will find their true love. Naturally, Charlie himself will never find true love.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: When Charlie tracks down Anisha, the goth girl who cursed him, she doesn't even remember the incident in which she cursed him. But it gets {{subverted|trope}} in the finale, when we see her taking a VoodooDoll of him from her closet and removing a needle from it, implying she's removing the curse now that he has apologized.
* ButIWouldReallyEnjoyIt: Charlie doesn't want his curse to affect Cam, so he avoids sleeping with her, despite he ''really'' wanting to. It doesn't help she [[ReluctantFanserviceGirl keeps accidentally getting into fanservice situations with him]] and brags to him about [[SexGoddess being really good in bed]].
* ButtMonkey: Both Charlie and Cam seem to share this role throughout the film, as both suffer AmusingInjuries, and go through other humiliating situations.
* BuxomBeautyStandard: Stu is a plastic surgeon, and says his job makes "the world a better place" by giving women bigger breasts.
* CasanovaWannabe: Stu sees himself as a confident ladies' man, but his crude flirting mostly repulses women.
* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: Charlie walks in on Stu masturbating with a grapefruit.
* ChickMagnet: Charlie
* ChildhoodFriends: Charlie and Stu and been {{Best Friend}}s at least since they were kids, considering Stu was around for the prologue when Charlie was 10.
* ComedicUnderwearExposure: A rare female example; in one scene, Cam accidentally [[StrippingSnag gets her skirt ripped off by a car door]], exposing white panties with a penguin on the front.
* CrazyJealousGuy: After sleeping with Cam, Charlie becomes very paranoid she will leave him for another man, to the point he even attacks a guy just for talking to her (he was her hairdresser).
* CringeComedy: About midway through the movie, Charlie goes into full-on overbearing stalker mode.
* CursedWithAwesome: Stu has this opinion on Charlie's curse of having the woman he sleeps with finding their true love right after means he can never have a long-term relationship, but it's magnificent for one night stands. Charlie initially agrees, but soon enough finds all the meaningless sex to be unfulfilling.
* CuteClumsyGirl: Cam is constantly knocking into things and tripping over stuff. This is up to eleven, as she's broken multiple bones as a result, yet remains a beautiful {{nice girl}}. Charlie seems to particularly find this endearing, comparing her to a penguin who is "awkward and clumsy on land, but beautiful in the water".
* DestructoNookie: When Charlie and Cam finally have sex, they end breaking stuff all over her apartment. She even drops ''him'' on the floor while they're in bed.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Chuck refused to kiss a girl during their TenMinutesInTheCloset and got cursed by her that every woman he would have sex with would end up finding their true love not long after. This doesn't actually bother him that much until he fell in love with Cam.
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Charlie is repeatedly coerced, at least guilted into a hookup by women. This is however {{played for laughs}}.
* EroticEating: One of the movie posters has Cam doing this to an ice-cream cone.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Curiously {{averted|Trope}}, as despite the title Charlie is never called "Chuck" in the movie.
* ExperimentedInCollege: When Charlie and Cam meet at his exes wedding, Cam reveals to him she used to date her as well, as an experimental thing [[KissingUnderTheInfluence while both women were drunk]].
* FanserviceExtra: The SexMontage features a gaggle of nude breasts and butts.
* FanDisservice: Eleanor Skepple, a FatSlob whose body is covered with acne, is shown in a bikini. It even has a GrossUpCloseUp of her acne!
* FatSlob: Eleanor Skepple is an extremely obese and slobbish woman that eats food like a pig with her hands and [[{{Gasshole}} farts constantly]].
* FreakinessShame: Stu towards his [[MultiBoobage three-breasted patient]], whom he marries.
* GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: Cam's bedroom is filled with stuffed penguins.
* GothGirlsKnowMagic: The goth girl Charlie turned down apparently cursed him as a teenager. [[spoiler: As an adult, she's not goth, but still knows magic.]]
* GrandRomanticGesture: After Charlie sleeps with Cam, he lavishes attention on her in the hopes that she won't move on after they've had sex, such as sending an entire room worth of [[FlowersOfRomance flowers]] to her workplace, or hiring a quartet to sing for her. However, a SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome occurs when Cam gets unnerved by the change in his personality and newfound clinginess.
* GrayRainOfDepression: Charlie sits sadly in the rain after Cam breaks up with him for his newfound clinginess.
* GroinAttack:
** Cam ends up spilling a hot drink on Charlie's crotch when they first meet. To make matters, worse, her attempts to wipe have [[RagingStiffie another effect on him]].
** When Charlie falls into the lake on the penguin habitat, one of the penguins bites him in the groin.
* HeadTurningBeauty: Cam is incredibly attractive, and is even introduced with a slow-mo walk when Charlie sees her for the first time. It quickly gets ruined when [[CuteClumsyGirl she runs into the waiter]].
* IntimateTelecommunications: Cam tries to have phone sex with Charlie while both are soaking in their own bathtubs.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: When Charlie calls the penguin expert Howard Blaine and sets up a blind date for Cam.
* KarmaHoudini: Despite every awful thing he put his friend Charlie through (and being a generally terrible person), Stu's only comeuppance is... marrying a hot woman with an extra breast.
* TheKlutz: Cam is extremely accident-prone, and has even injured herself countless times. Charlie suffers many AmusingInjuries at her hand over the course of the story.
* LegFocus: Cam stretches her leg out of the water in order to turn off the faucet during her BathtubScene.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Whether Anisha had anything to do with the curse is left ambiguous.
* MDEnvy: Charlie becomes insecure when he finds out his romantic rival is a "real doctor", while he's a dentist.
-->'''Stu:''' He's a heart surgeon. You're a dentist. It's like saying General Patton and Colonel Mustard are both military men.
* ModestyBedsheet:
** Cam and Charlie are seen under one after they sleep together for the first time. The sheets are naturally, [[AnimalMotifs penguin-themed]].
** Completely {{Averted|Trope}} in the fairly explicit SexMontage scene.
* MsFanservice: Cam is very attractive and is seen in various stages of undress during the film.
* MultiBoobage: Stu winds up with a woman who has three breasts (as we see at the end).
* NeverTrustATrailer: The initial TV ads placed all of their emphasis on Cam's clumsiness. The titular "good luck" curse that drives the movie, where any woman he has sex with meets her "true love" soon after, is never mentioned, making it seem like the movie is all about Creator/JessicaAlba being cute and losing clothing rather than Creator/DaneCook doing love scenes, which was probably the right move. They did eventually start running commercials that focused on the curse, though.
* NotGoodWithRejection: The entire plot happens because of this attitude of a [[GothGirlsKnowMagic Magical Goth Girl]] towards Charlie, when he refused to make out with her when they were children.
* PacManFever: When Charlie is shown playing Xbox 360, it's clear neither the controller or the Xbox itself are turned on.
* PostCoitalCollapse: The SexMontage ends with Charlie collapsing into bed next to a girl, who quickly makes her way out now that she's now eligible for his curse to take effect on her.
* RaceForYourLove: TheClimax is this, with Charlie racing to get to Cam before she flies off to Antarctica. {{Subverted|Trope}} in that when he gets there, she reveals she's only going for a couple of days and the guy he thought she was going out with is actually already married, so there was no actual need for rushing. [[DoubleSubversion But she still finds the gesture romantic]] so she still pulls him for a BigDamnKiss anyway.
* SexEqualsLove: When Charlie and Carol have sex on the beach, Carol happily blurts out "I love you, Charlie.", and gets upset when he replies with just "That's nice" and then expresses his misgivings about using "[[TheILoveYouStigma the 'L' word]]" as he puts it.
* SexGoddess: Cam brags about being one, whispering in Charlie's ear that she will give him "the best night of his life". We never find if it's true, but it serves to further frustrate Charlie in his decision to avoid sleeping with her.
* SexMontage: Charlie is shown having sex with many women in a variety of positions when he decides to take advantage of his "[[CursedWithAwesome power]]", including a lot of TheGruntingOrgasm and TheImmodestOrgasm.
* SexyCoatFlashing: Charlie finds his secretary wearing a trenchcoat inside his apartment, which she [[DressHitsFloor drops]] to show she's wearing lingerie when she reveals she's there to seduce him after learning about his curse.
* SexyManInstantHarem: PlayedWith. Charlie is "cursed" with the ability to have any woman who has sex with him find true love within a few days. The reason [[CursedWithAwesome the word is in quotation marks]] is because apparently in this universe, women are so desperate for true love that they'll start throwing themselves at Charlie with abandon based, but not because they're attracted to him in particular, but solely on the Internet superstition that they'll find true love afterward. It ''does'' have the negative side-effect of sex instantly killing any relationship he's in, however. His secretary does note that it's on some kind of urban legend site, and hasn't been debunked yet. As the girl who jumped Charlie in the car pointed out, it's more of a "what have I got to lose" sort of thing.
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Stu's fiancée Lara isn't bothered at all by Charlie seeing her topless.
* ShirtlessScene: Cam's [[TheStoner stoner brother]] Joe is randomly shirtless when he first meets Charlie, and she keeps asking him to [[PleasePutSomeClothesOn put a shirt on]].
* ShoutOut:
** The film's poster pictured above is obviously an homage to the famous 1981 ''Magazine/RollingStone'' [[http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PgNRolXSL._SX384_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg cover picture]] of a naked Music/JohnLennon caressing Music/YokoOno.
** Most of Cam's penguin memorabilia comes from ''Film/MaryPoppins''.
* ShouldersUpNudity:
** Charlie's only ever seen from the waist up during the SexMontage and ShowerOfAngst scene.
** When Lara flashes Charlie, the camera only shows her [[ToplessnessFromTheBack bare back]] or from the shoulders up.
* ShowerOfAngst: PlayedForLaughs. After Charlie sleeps with [[FatSlob Eleanor Skepple]], the next scene shows him furiously scrubbing himself in the shower as he screams.
* SpinTheBottle: The TenMinutesInTheCloset game at the start of the film is decided with this, with Charlie visibly disappointed when his turn points to the goth girl.
* StalkingIsLove: Enforced, on both sides. Cam reacts reasonably creeped out by Charlie's overbearing behavior until her [[TheStoner brother]] enlightens her that she should be happy. Anisha makes Charlie realize he should let Cam go, until Stu and his bride nag him to travel '''to Antarctica''' after her. Since this is a rom com.
* TheStoner: Cam's brother Joe has being stoned as his defining trait, with her commenting he constantly smells "like bong water".
* StrippingSnag: Cam has her skirt ripped off when it gets caught in her date's car door, [[ComedicUnderwearExposure exposing her penguin-adorned panties.]]
* TenMinutesInTheCloset: One that ended poorly kick-starts the plot, as Charlie refused to make out with the girl and she cursed him in return.
* TongueOnTheFlagpole: The movie ends with Charlie and Cam getting their tongues stuck together when they kiss in Antarctica.
* ToplessnessFromTheBack:
** Cam's naked back is seen when she takes of her shirt during her [[YouCanLeaveYourHatOn strip tease for Charlie]], alongside some {{Sideboob}} as she steps out of frame.
** When Lara flashes her MultiBoobage at Charlie, we only see her from the back or [[ShouldersUpNudity from the shoulders up]] as she lifts her shirt.
* TrashOfTheTitans: After his break-up with Cam, Charlie becomes too depressed to clean his apartment, and it becomes filled with trash and discarded food.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Anisha, when she's trying to seduce Chuck in the closet during Seven Minutes In Heaven, strips down to her bra and pants, asks to see Chuck's genitals, aggressively throws herself at him, attempts to make love to him despite his obvious resistance and scratches his chest telling him how it's supposed to increase pleasure based on what she's read in her mother's Cosmopolitan magazines. And she's only 13 while trying to seduce the 10-year-old Chuck during all this.
* UnsettlingGenderReveal: Chuck discovers one of the many women he sleeps with to help them find their true love was formerly his classmate -- and a man.
* VictoriasSecretCompartment: One woman stores a condom in her bra, which Charlie calls the "secret boobie place".
* WardrobeMalfunction: Among the many mishaps happening to accident-prone Cam, she [[StrippingSnag rips off her skirt by exiting Charlie's car]], revealing penguin-adorned panties. She has a minor NakedFreakOut as he returns her ruined skirt.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Stu is just the worst friend possible for Charlie... or anyone for that matter. He's constantly making perverted or [[ToiletHumor disgusting jokes]], gives Charlie a lot of bad romantic advice, and even lied to him about going out with Eleanor Skepple and isn't even apologetic about it.
* YouCanLeaveYourHatOn: Cam does a striptease for Charlie when he's on the phone with Stu, trying to seduce him into dropping the call and coming to bed.
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