Just My Luck (2006)

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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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