Dane Will Turn It Around

One comment left on my post about Good Luck Chuck questioned me about whether or not this will be the movie where Dane Cook finally gains some credibility as an actor. I actually do believe that Dane will reverse his bad luck. (It doesn’t hurt that the movie has good luck in the title either.)

For one, he will be working with a much more experienced actor (or Jessica, depending on how you want to look at it). When co-starring with Jessica Simpson, who was coming off a lacking performance in The Dukes of Hazzard, Employee of the Month, neither Simpson nor Cook had established themselves as an actor in Hollywood yet. Although Alba has very limited experience starring in comedies, she has at least established herself as more than just a pretty face with movies such as Sin City(well maybe not that much in Sin City, but you get the idea. She's done more than one movie.) and the two Fantastic Four movies.

Secondly, Dane Cook himself is more experienced. He should be able to learn from his lacking first performance in Employee of the Month. He should be able to improve through each of his future movies and this should be the start of that. I’m not saying that he is going to have the performance of a lifetime, but I expect he will be good enough to help this movie live up to the hype that has been generated by all of the advertisements all over the place. Also, would the spend this much money on advertising if the movie was going to be terrible? (Okay, maybe they would. But that’s not the point.) Lionsgate obviously felt that this movie would be a huge hit or they wouldn’t have wasted their time and money on this movie.