Starring: Lindsay Lohan, Chris Pine, Samaire Armstrong, Bree Turner, Faizon Love Directed By: Donald Petrie Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: 20th Century Fox Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 1 Release Date: August 22, 2006 Running Time: 103 minutes Theatrical Release Date: May 12, 2006
Product Description: From the director of How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days comes a "funny twist-of-fate comedy" (KBWB-TV)! Lindsay Lohan lights up the screen as Ashley the luckiest girl in Manhattan. But little does she know her good fortune is about to change. When Ashley shares a kiss at a party with Jake a bad luck magnet they miraculously switch paths. Suddenly Ashley is plagued by one hilarious disaster after another and Jake is headed for fame instead of failure. As she desperately races to find Jake and reverse her misfortune Ashley discovers that her terrible twist-of-fate is the luckiest thing that ever happened to her.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: PG-13 UPC: 024543255161 Manufacturer No: 2235516
Amazon.com: Ashley (Lindsay Lohan) is lucky: She always gets a taxi, she always says the right thing when the right person needs to hear it, gorgeous dresses get mis-delivered to her apartment. But when she kisses a cute guy at a masquerade ball, her luck vanishes--because the guy is a total loser named Jake (Chris Pine, The Princess Diaries 2) whose collapsing life desperately needs a little luck. Suddenly everything goes right for Jake, while Ashley--who now can't take a step without breaking a heel--has to go on a mad search for the unknown guy she kissed so she can retrieve her stolen luck. Just My Luck isn't as creative with this whimsical premise as it could be, but there are amusing moments as the movie wends its way to the inevitable happy conclusion. As a Lindsay Lohan vehicle, this isn't as smart and funny as Mean Girls or as all-around likable as Freaky Friday, but it's superior to Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen or Herbie: Fully Loaded. Lohan's fans are likely to enjoy the light pop of the British band McFly, who play themselves and have a scruffy charm. --Bret Fetzer
Pure Torture The story idea isn't totally lame but the dialogue and acting make this too torturous to watch. Lindsay Lohan actually looked like she was reading from cue cards at one point in the film, and the delivery was like she was reading it for the first time..... horrible, horrible scene. In fact that scene was so bad I rewound it 3 times just because I couldn't believe what I was seeing! Don't waste your time on this movie.
Just plain fun... I, like many, figured that this film was going to be disastrous. Lindsay Lohan has not really had a good track record as of late with her film choices. The last time she made something that wasn't wholly cheesy was in 2004 when she made the brilliant `Mean Girls', and even then it was her co-star Rachel McAdams who stole every scene. Since then though, Lindsay has kind of fallen into patterns of obscurity, making one bad teen flick after another. Now, `Just My Luck' is not a complete departure from that mold (it's not like this is a `smart' comedy) but it does lose a lot of the childish overtones for some genuinely funny moments.
The film follows Ashley Albright, a successful young woman who is unbelievably lucky. Everything just seems to fall into line for her making her life a walk in the park. Jake Hardin is her polar opposite. Nothing he does turns out right. He is inherently unlucky. He works a dead end job at a bowling alley and tries fervently to get one of the local bands signed by a record label to no avail.
That is all until one fateful masquerade ball when, after an unexpected kiss, Ashley and Jake find themselves swapping luck.
Quickly things fall apart for Ashley. She loses her job, she loses her apartment, she loses her mind. On the other hand Jake is rising up fast. The local bands demo tape falls into the right mans hands and Jake is instantly managing the band. Then Jake meets Ashley (without the masks on) and the two form a friendship, neither knowing that the other is the one they kissed that fateful night (which is always ridiculous to me since it's not like those masks they wear in these movies really hides anything...I think Lindsay had on a cream colored veil).
The film does pour on the `unlucky' bit a little too heavy in some scenes (NO ONE is that unfortunate) and the whole `passing of the unlucky survival backpack' was kind of (or really) lame, but for the most part `Just My Luck' hits its mark well. Lindsay is charming and actually quite stunning here. I don't think she's ever looked better. Chris Pine is decent enough as Jake to make his whole transformation believable. Missi Pyle always plays the same breed of train wreck, and she does it well so I can't knock her. We're not looking for award winning performances, just entertaining ones, and that is precisely what we get here.
Sure, `Just My Luck' is not a great comedy, but it is a good on and it proves to be Lohan's best film since `Mean Girls'. She's proven she can carry a teen comedy like this, now it's time for her to branch out (much like her `Mean Girls' co-star McAdams) and prove that she can be taken seriously.
That is if her mother will let her.
Snippet The technical aspects of this movie are OK, and of course New York city looks bright and inviting. Success and failure are measured by the size of apartments and the ability to date rich guys or hot (pretty stupid) girls. The film is simply dumb, to the point where you cannot ignore this quality even when watching in zombie mode. Also, it tries to sell a light-pop British boy-band with too much fury. Like a movie from the Disney Channel. What more?, ah, Lindsey Lohan is extremely beautiful, all the time, and the deleted scenes are good and should have been included in the movie. That's it.
what can I say... I love Lindsay! Ok so admittedly, the only reason I saw this movie in the first place, and the only reason I own this DVD, is because Lindsay Lohan is in it. Yes, I am a HUGE LL fan. Prior to what others say, I think she is incredibly talented, even in corny movies such as this one. In all honestly, this definitely isn't one of Lindsays best movies, and if it had been someone else who starred in it, I'd no doubt be giving it one star. But Lindsay adds charm to this movie and makes it worth watching.
Yes its corny at times, and yes its predictable (the basic gist: girl who has all the luck in the world meets boy who has all the bad luck in the world, they kiss, their fortunes get reversed, and of course develop romantic feelings for eachother...etc) and some parts are even downright ridiculous. But like I said, Lindsay makes it work, and she actually has really good chemistry with her co-star Chris Pines.
but if your not a fan of Lohan whatsoever, and if you in no way enjoy any type of chick flick, then I'm willing to bet your not gonna enjoy this one, so I don't recommend that you watch this movie but if you are a Lohan fan and you do enjoy chick flicks, even slightly ridiculous ones, then I do recommend that you watch this.
If anything, it'll atleast give you something entertaining to watch on a boring sunday afternoon!
Cutely cliched... 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.
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