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Just My Luck

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Just My Luck (2006)

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Reviews Counted:106

Fresh:14

Rotten:92

Average Rating:3.7/10

Consensus: Just My Luck is a screwball rom-com that fails to take advantage of Lindsay Lohan's considerable charm. The film (along with Robert Altman's A Prairie Home Companion) marks the end of Lohan's teen queen phase as she begins playing characters that are older, but not necessarily wiser. Lohan's character is supposedly cursed with bad luck, though the movie confuses misfortune with plain stupidity, leading Lohan into a long series of silly and senseless physical gags.

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for some brief sexual references

Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release:May 12, 2006 Wide

Box Office: $17,229,124

Synopsis: Ashley Albright (LINDSAY LOHAN) is the luckiest woman in the world, a person to whom all the good things in life have come far too easily. She can pick a lottery ticket at random and hit the... Ashley Albright (LINDSAY LOHAN) is the luckiest woman in the world, a person to whom all the good things in life have come far too easily. She can pick a lottery ticket at random and hit the jackpot. In New York, the world's busiest city, Ashley never has to wait for a cab. And she has a terrific job as an account exec at a prestigious public relations firm. Everything goes Ashley's way. And now, she's been given a great opportunity to advance her career: she is to plan a masquerade ball in downtown Manhattan for record mogul Damon Phillips (Faizon Love) and his company. Jake (CHRIS PINE), on the other hand, is a bad luck magnet. His skies are always raining; his pants are always on the verge of splitting at the seams. His job is cleaning toilets at a bowling alley. But even a steady bombardment of catastrophes doesn't dim Jake's dreams. He thinks he may have his chance at the brass ring with his discovery of a rock band McFly. If Jake can keep his bad luck at bay for just one night, he'll sneak into a masquerade ball and get McFly's CD into the hands of music titan Damon Phillips. On this night when dreams can be made or broken, fate brings Ashley and Jake together on the dance floor. Instantly taken with one another, they share an electrifyingly kiss – and with that one kiss, their luck switches places. Suddenly, Ashley's dress rips. Her heel breaks. Her good luck seems to have finally run out. Jake, in his rush to catch Phillips before he leaves, ends up saving the record mogul's life and earning with that one simple twist of fate, the chance to make all his dreams come true. As Ashley desperately races to regain the luck she blithely took for granted, she begins to see that it's not so much having good luck but what you do with it that counts, and that her greatest chance of redemption lies with the guy who holds the key to her sudden change of fate. --© 20th Century Fox [More]

Starring: Lindsay Lohan, Chris Pine, Samaire Armstrong, Faizon Love

Starring: Lindsay Lohan, Chris Pine, Samaire Armstrong, Faizon Love, Chris Carmack, Carlos Ponce, Teddy Castellucci

Director: Donald Petrie

Director: Donald Petrie
Screenwriter: Jonathan Bernstein, James Greer, Mark Blackwell
Producer: Arnon Milchan, Bruce Willis
Studio: 20th Century Fox

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I can't think of a movie that matters less than Just My Luck. It's just negligible.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
05/11/06
Stephen Hunter
Stephen Hunter
Washington Post
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Takes the vaguely supernatural conceit of films like Intacto and The Cooler and drains it of all fascination, putting it in service of one of the more dim-witted romantic comedies I've had to sit through in recent months.

Full Review Source: Film Blather | comment Comment
05/11/06
Eugene Novikov
Eugene Novikov
Film Blather

Every single scene is an abominable assemblage of mind-boggling stupidity, completely unmotivated behavior, and unfunny slapstick.

Full Review Source: EricDSnider.com | comment Comment
05/11/06
Eric D. Snider
Eric D. Snider
EricDSnider.com

Lohan doesn't have the spark or charm she or the casting director thinks she might.

Full Review Source: WaffleMovies.com | comment Comment
05/11/06
Willie Waffle
Willie Waffle
WaffleMovies.com

I have no problem with Lohan desiring to be Lucy, but she's got to find a better director than the torturous Donald Petrie to help get her to that level.

Full Review Source: FilmJerk.com | comment Comment
05/11/06
Brian Orndorf
Brian Orndorf
FilmJerk.com

Could have been the Final Destination of comedies...Instead, they settle for generic slapstick.

Full Review Source: Suite101.com | comment Comment
05/11/06
Fred Topel
Fred Topel
Suite101.com

Why does the new Lindsay Lohan picture have such a poo fixation?....Could it be that director Donald Petrie is Freudian slipping on his s**tty material?

Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews | comment Comment
05/11/06
Peter Canavese
Peter Canavese
Groucho Reviews

A romantic comedy neither romantic nor particularly funny.

Full Review Source: DustinPutman.com | comment Comment
05/11/06
Dustin Putman
Dustin Putman
DustinPutman.com

...never quite recovers from the way Lohan bops around with an air of celebrity entitlement.

Full Review Source: Sun Publications (Chicago, IL) | comment Comment
05/11/06
Josh Larsen
Josh Larsen
Sun Publications (Chicago, IL)

Just My Luck is a fortune cookie of a movie, without the fortune: The outside looks sweet and tasty, the inside is hollow and dry.

Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | comment Comment
05/11/06
Kathy Cano Murillo
Kathy Cano Murillo
Arizona Republic
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Just My Luck is a deserted wasteland when it comes to funny. It's also boring, plain and simple.

Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | comment Comment
05/11/06
Winda Benedetti
Winda Benedetti
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

The assumption must be that those who see this PG-13 movie have been raised on a diet of bathroom-humor comedies and are not quite ready to let that go.

Full Review Source: USA Today | comment Comment
05/11/06
Claudia Puig
Claudia Puig
USA Today

Just My Luck is a bit of lukewarm cappuccino froth confected to float Lindsay Lohan to the next stage of her career.

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05/11/06
A.O. Scott
A.O. Scott
New York Times
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Just My Luck offers up few laughs and even fewer surprises.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
05/11/06
Toddy Burton
Toddy Burton
Austin Chronicle

As disposable as a broken mirror, Just My Luck plays like a focus-group compilation of everything a 12-year-old girl could want in a Lindsay Lohan movie.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
05/11/06
Justin Chang
Justin Chang
Variety

Lindsay Lohan and Chris Pine make a charming star-crossed couple, and tweens and teens will find enough plot reversals to keep them hooked.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
05/11/06
Sheri Linden
Sheri Linden
Hollywood Reporter

Throw in a hot new British bubblegum band, McFly, a bit of magic, romance, humor and a happy ending, and you've got a good, old-fashioned escapist popcorn flick.

Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | comment Comment
05/11/06
Nancy Churnin
Nancy Churnin
Dallas Morning News
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Looking tired and sallow and drained of her customary glow, Lindsay Lohan marches grimly through this mechanical tween comedy as if it were a particularly tedious homework assignment.

Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | comment Comment
05/11/06
Ella Taylor
Ella Taylor
L.A. Weekly

Lindsay Lohan plays a parody of the once promising Lindsay Lohan.

Full Review Source: Internet Reviews | comment Comment
05/11/06
Steve Rhodes
Steve Rhodes
Internet Reviews

Just My Luck is an old-fashioned comedy about two nice people who would fall in love if they could just get in synch.

Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press | comment Comment
05/11/06
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press
 
 
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