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Just My Luck

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Hollywood loves to make these kinds of movies. A thrown together script, a marketable star, and enough eye candy to keep you interested enough to check the movie out. Movies like this are a dime a dozen, and make enough money that they continue to get made. Just My Luck shows enough warmth and charm to make it worth the $4 at the video store.

Tabloid queen and controversial star Lindsay Lohan plays Ashley, a girl whose simply can't do anything wrong, as she is blessed with excessive good luck. So she has a ridiculously large apartment(even though her job is low level PR). the ability to cab through Manhattan without hitting a red light, a flirtatious manner that draws the most handsome rich young men to her (in elevators no less), and of course some wonderful friends. The only really redeeming thing about Ashley is her friends. There is nothing particularly lovable about her. Jake on the other hand, is the sad sack whose luck is so bad he seems to balance out Ashley's. Working in a bowling alley, repping a band without success, Jake makes the audience feel for him, especially since he has a touching relationship with his niece.

Cue the masquerade ball, which Ashley throws to celebrate her new client, a P-Diddy like record mogul. Jake sneaks in to give the guy his band's CD, meets Ashley, they kiss, and suddenly their luck reverses. And this is where the movie redeems itself. Lohan begins to warm up as Ashley hits the bottom, becoming a more likable and natural character. Despite his incredible luck, Jake is still good hearted, even as he is making his clients, McFly, into the next big thing. Meeting Ashley, he helps her back on her feet before she realizes he was the one who got her luck, and gets it back. But of course, being Hollywood, her friends convince her to give the luck back to Jake in time for McFly to rock the house at their big concert debut. Cue happy ending.

Though the ending seems rushed so all the loose ends get neatly tied up, the film manages to find the warmth and heart that it lacked early on. And despite Lohan's problems off the screen (Lindsay, please please eat something), this film shows enough of the accessible and warm Lindsay from Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen and Mean Girls to make it worth seeing. Overall though, this is a decent film that makes for a good rental. Only buy if you really loved this film or are that big a fan of Lindsay.

A.G. Corwin
St.Louis, MO

Ashley Albright (Lindsay Lohan) has lived a charmed life. When she goes outside in the rain, the sun comes out. She just misses a crowded elevator and winds up alone with a very cute guy. And when she must substitute for her boss at a meeting, she gets a promotion out of the deal.

Jake Hardin (Chris Pine), on the other hand, could use a few good luck charms. He works at the Rock 'n Bowl, a bowling alley with live musical entertainment. He's found a great new group in McFly (playing themselves), but can't get their CD to an executive no matter what he tries.

Ashley has put together a masquerade ball as a promotion for record label Masquerade. Jake tries to crash the party to get McFly's CD to the label's executive just one more time. The two meet, and its love at first site. When they kiss, however, everything changes.

It starts with Ashley breaking the heel of her shoe. Things go downhill from there, and she's soon unemployed and living with her two friends. Jake, meanwhile, gets McFly signed to a record deal and finds himself living in a great, spacious apartment with a limo at his service.

Ashley hates her new life, and tries everything she can think of to get her luck back. Her path keeps crossing Jake's and the two begin to fall in love. What will happen when Ashley learns the truth?

Yeah, I'll admit it. I'm a Lindsay Lohan fan. That coupled with some very funny previews made me want to see this movie. Unfortunately, it didn't live up to its potential.

Obviously with a movie like this, the story is fairly predictable. It falls on the humor and the actors to make the journey to the end well worth watching. The actors do a great job with their material. You can't help but root for Ashley and Jake to find some way to deal with whatever it is they are currently facing. And, of course, you're rooting for them to get together.

Unfortunately, the humor fell flat. While I don't mind slapstick, I don't enjoy humor where the person is in pain or is constantly making a fool out of themselves. The humor in this movie fell almost entirely into those categories. Instead of laughing, I spend most of the movie cringing, waiting for the joke to come.

The ending works well, however. It was very sweet and redeems much of the earlier parts of the film.

The musical group featured in the film, McFly, is a real band. They've just released a CD entitled (surprise, surprise) Just My Luck. I was impressed enough with them to consider buying it but haven't yet.

The movie's ok, and the friend I went to see it with loved it. I just couldn't stop cringing enough to fully enjoy it. Three and a half stars rounded down.

Ashley (Lindsay Lohan) stars as a yuppie who takes life (and her luck) for granted. After meeting loveable loser Jake (Chris Pine), he siphons away her luck with a kiss turning her luck sour. Can Ashley restore her luck to its former greatness or is she destined to be a loser?

This was an enjoyable lightweight comedy with unchallenging dialog, pretty people and a few really funny scenes. I enjoyed it, but I got a bit bored during the part where Ashley's luck runs bad. I don't really like watching someone constantly humiliated and embarrassed, even fictionally, and I'm not a huge fan of slapstick so the scenes with the washer and dryer and the blow dryer were 'meh' moments for me. Overall, it was a cute film but nothing ground breaking. 3 stars.

This film is an hour and a half of insults to the intellect.

Read all the reviews here, you know the story. Girl loses good luck to a guy she kisses. Now she has to find this guy and kiss him again. She kisses every guy around town. How pretty.

But the thing about the film that was so annoying was they didn't play it right. Instead of switching luck, they should've had the two characters switch utter stupidity. After Lohan gets the guys "bad luck" she becomes a moron. Apparently falling off of chairs, throwing electrical hairdriers into water and changing light bulbs while they are still illuminated all attribute to "bad luck," when really it was just stupidity. The worst part is, just about every idiot will eat this stuff up and laugh at it. I spent the entire movie predicting what kind of stupid thing was going to happen next.

This movie is written for morons. But at least Lindsay Lohan is in it so every adolescent girl will see it and crave the lifestyle of a rich, no work girl in a sweet studio apartment with her hot friends.

As Lindsay Lohan transitions from Disney children movies (which I adored her in The Parent Trap), this movie is best called a good first attempt. It drags a bit and is quite predictable in its story line. Those are the only reasons that I did not give it 5 stars.
I hope that this is an indication of what Lindsay will be pursuing in her career. The humor is not crude or tasteless. The supporting cast is fairly good in this. I wish the fortune teller would have been more incorporated in the story. She was interesting and funny.
I am not sure why this movie got the PG-13 that it did. I have see plenty of PG-13 movies that should have been R or worse.

A good enjoyable movie worth renting and possibly adding to your collection.

Contrary to what many people think, I find Lindsay Lohan to be an above-average talent in the entertainment industry, and more intelligent than people give her credit for. Admittedly though, I prefer her acting to her singing. I've enjoyed her work in films such as "Freaky Friday," "Mean Girls" and "Herbie: Fully Loaded," all aimed at a younger demographic. With "Just My Luck," Lohan graduates into the young adult romantic comedy genre, complete with a business suit and all (which, I'll add, she looks MIGHTY GOOD in).

So does she pull it off? I would say without hesitation that she most certainly does. While this type of role isn't necessarily difficult to play, Lohan adds all the required charm and likeability to her character. There are some genuinely funny moments in the movie, thanks to a great supporting cast. And Chris Pine is also good as the lucky guy who wins Lohan's heart.

Romantic comedies are like action movies...we all know how they're going to end. But what matters is what happens in between point A and point B. And "Just My Luck" has all the right ingredients for a successful film, with a positive message thrown in for good measure. Recommended.

There are much worse movies out there than this, and it certainly doesn't deserve the accolade of "Worst Movie of 2006". There are some reviewers out there who are taking movies way too seriously. Just My Luck is the perfect movie for chilling out to, switching off the brain, and just having fun. It's never gonna win any awards, like many of Lindsay's films. I think the main problem a lot of reviewers will have is the target audience. It's a very narrow target audience, appealing to the very young, and me. It doesn't help that the film is trying to "break" a UK band by featuring them in this. That band would be McFly and they are the bane of my life. They're awful. There was so much press about one of the (ugly) members, and Lindsay having a fling, but I highly doubt it.

It's a simple, predictable storyline, stealing the same idea from Freaky Friday (which is superior), and taking the guy from Princess Diaries 2, Chris Pine, who I didn't remember, and don't think I'll be remembering him from this either.

My real quibble (apart from McFly) is the cover of both the UK & US covers for the DVD. Lindsay, a natural redhead, and with more than enough freckles, has been completely airbrushed for both DVDs. She no longer sports a freckle on my copy of the DVD, and I find that very disappointing.

Just My Luck is an average film, perfect for a rainy afternoon in, and switching off the brain. What's not to like?

Oh Lohan, didn't you learn anything from "Freaky Friday"? You should never coy with fortune telling, because the plot device will just conveniently turn your life around and hope you'll learn something from the nightmare. First, you were a 50-year-old Laurie Strode, here you became unlucky, and now you went from a career rise to a career splat.

"Just My Luck" may not be as bad as her recent box-office disaster, but this is still ridiculously uncanny. The movie thought God likes to tempt fate with certain people, and so Lindsay Lohan's character is livin' the Mary Tyler Moore life while Chris 'James T. Kirk' Pine happens to receive crap on a sliver platter every step of the way. Then convenience circumstances at a party happened when these two unknowns kiss after a warning form the fortuneteller, and their luck has switched. Then Lohan's character faced the 'wackiest' of unfortunate situations, like gettin' splashed on by the road, getting her hair caught in a dryer, having her home flooded, and reduced to working in janitorial work, while Pine gets a high-paid job by a record producer and has a secretary/call-girl the within a day.

There's a difference between luck and stupidity, and the movie doesn't quite get it. The character who had bad luck seems more irresponsible than unlucky, considering most of their actions caused them to be unfortunate. Pine picked up a dollar bill from a trash can, not thinking it could be dirty, and Lohan tried to replace a tube lightbulb while holding another one while standing on a ladder, these characters simply didn't think things through and I'm suppose to believe this is bad luck; come to think of it, I'm surprised bad luck itself didn't kill them earlier on. Nevermind the whole good luck aspect which is handled absurdly and coincidentally, one has to be brain-damage to think they weren't graced with internal fortune.

Everything here is set up like a Disney Channel Original Movie. All the jokes were cartoony, the cast overexert themselves with endless chatter, and the story is farfetched. I can understand it wants to be over-the-top, but it's not really funny. The characters are so annoying, Lohan kept verbally defending herself every time she gets into a jam and Pine plays like a one-dimensional meat package. "Just My Luck" is romantic shlock, all bubbly and asinine catering to the young girls for sleepovers. To think the best moments were the ones where Lohan's character is in prison and she got her face clocked (twice). At least the movie didn't make that whole 'you make your own luck' speech, which after how divinely controlled it's set up, the message would be hard to believe.

In fact, the only thing original in this movie is that the lead actress (Lohan) starts off with luck, then gets bad luck after kissing some stranger (Pine) at a mascarade party and then kissing him later on (shedding bad luck) to kiss again and get it.

Weird, I know. But more or less, that's the premise of this been-there-done-that-but-still-cute tale...

Lindsay does decent acting once again, but it's not her best. Mean Girls and especially Freaky Friday were her highlights.

Lindsay and Pine have great, great chemistry but Katie "gets in the way" at first. Later, things are realized and "fine" again.

Like I said a many movie clichés roll, punch after punch, but the heart of the movie is still realized.

Do the lead actor and actress end up together? YOU figure that one out!

Positives:
You more or less stay glued, regardless of some of the bad and overused clichés popping up.
Great chemistry between the two leads.
Acting is decent.
Music is OK, but a bit too predictable.
Band's music is OK too but one song when they rehearse REALLY sticks out well.
What Lindsay's character thinks of Katie at first is HILARIOUS! :)
The real Katie rocks. \m/
Nice length.

Negatives:
Cliché, cliché, cliché!
Very predictable sometimes.
There's nothing new here.
Ending was as predictable as the movie.

3.7 stars.

This movie was intended for teenagers and it wasn't a bad movie. Its nothing horrible, I would buy it. People write reviews, they haven't seen the movie. They just don't like a person in the movie, which is pointless. If you don't like the actors, then why watch the movie. It was agood movie as i said. But wacth it for yourself.