Instead, though, I want to draw particular attention to two rather disturbing scenes that bookend this salacious story: I could go on (and on and on) reciting further examples of nudity, obscenity and innuendo. Audiences see a full rear shot of his backside when he drops his trousers to show a woman his penis.Ĭhuck‘s entire premise is based on sex, so perhaps none of this content is too surprising in the more-than-OK-with-R-rated-movies world we live in. Objects (nude women, more often than not) obstruct views of his genitals. She never exposes critical parts of herself to the audience, though we do see her in various stages of undress, and her bare shoulders and legs get loads of screen time.Ĭharlie shows more: We see him naked on several occasions. Cam talks dirty over the phone and sends a nude picture of herself via her cell phone camera. (Charlie, fearful Cam will succumb to the hex, runs out of the house while Cam lies waiting for him, naked in bed). She resists having sex with Charlie for, oh, at least three dates. When Stu hooks up with his own steady girlfriend, it’s largely because she has an extra breast in the middle of her chest.īy comparison-but only by comparison-Cam is downright prudish. (Charlie walks in on him as he’s masturbating-and we see the “toys” he’s utilizing.) Stu even asks one of his patients to expose herself to Charlie so Charlie can tell her whether they’re “even” or not. And he tells Charlie that he masturbates while looking at his patients’ mammograms. He has Pamela Anderson’s implants displayed in a special case by his door. He has pictures of breasts spread across his office walls. Seemingly incapable of uttering a sentence that’s not both sexual and sick, Stu is particularly loathsome. When characters aren’t actually engaged in sex, they’re talking about actually engaging in it. We see lots of body parts, lots of movement and just about every sexual position physically possible. To get as much titillation on the screen as possible, freshman director Mark Helfrich shows several sex acts at a time, splitting the screen into two, four, even nine sections-like a veritable Rubik’s Cube of skin-filled indulgence. The most graphic sex scenes take place once Charlie agrees to sleep with any woman who asks-almost all of whom, strangely enough, look like they just stepped off the fashion runway. And the hex makes that impossible.īut that’s not where Good Luck Chuck stops when it comes to breasts-which make sans-clothes appearances throughout the movie. Beautiful women are falling all over themselves to be with him, but all he really wants is a steady relationship with Cam. Suddenly, Charlie’s hex looks like the Gift of Midas, Hugh Hefner edition. But tawdry temptation eventually crashes headlong into a woman he comes to believe is his perfect match: Cam, a clumsy-but-beautiful penguin expert. Everyone, it seems, is looking for love-and Charlie’s bed seems to be a shortcut to finding it.Ĭharlie cashes in for a time. Suddenly, Charlie’s waiting room is filled with gorgeous gigglers and his answering machine is glutted with messages from strangers. “Thank you, Charlie, for being my lucky charm,” one bride says by way of a toast at her wedding reception. Charlie, now a successful dentist, has forgotten all about the “hex.” But his ex-girlfriends have noticed a curious pattern: Once they sleep with Charlie, they get married to the next guy they go out with. “I hex you.” Specifically, she tells Charlie that every girl he goes out with will find true love in another’s arms.įast-forward 22 years. “You are not my boyfriend anymore,” she tells him. When he freaks out, she asks, “What’s the matter? Don’t you want me?” Charlie doesn’t, which sends the girl into a rage. She rips open his shirt and her own shirt (revealing a bra), twists his nipples and scratches his chest. A not-so-innocent 10-year-old, Charlie is forced through a twist of the bottle to spend seven minutes in a closet with a girl who dresses like Wednesday Addams and has the libido of Britney Spears. 3) Don’t play spin the bottle.Ĭonsider Charlie’s tale of woe. There are a few firm rules of childhood learned, at least in part, from the movies: 1) Be careful with BB guns, because you can put somebody’s eye out.