Just My Luck (PG-13, 2006)

common sense media says

Uneven Lindsay Lohan comedy; older tweens and up.


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What parents need to know

Parents need to know that this movie includes a number of poop jokes. Lots of silly slapstick: The heroine falls into art (a pile of mud), falls off a ladder, and the hero is hit by a cab. Several characters are ruthlessly selfish and snobbish, and they lie and cheat one another. Women wear close-fitting, sometimes ridiculous outfits. A gypsy fortune teller is troublingly stereotypical. Characters drink, sometimes to drunkenness.

Positive messages: Frequent gross-out humor, especially poop jokes. Characters lie and cheat.
Violence: Assorted pratfalls and spills by "unlucky" characters; when Jake falls on her and his pants accidentally fall down, a woman kicks Jake in his crotch.
Sex: Kisses between primary couple; one character is revealed to be a professional escort (and Ashley is arrested for pimping); some soundtrack music includes sexual allusions (including "Goodies," by Ciara).
Language: A couple of uses of "s--t out of luck" (abbreviated to "SOL"); "s--t," "kick-ass song," "damn it," "bullocks," plus obnoxious language ("sucking up," "crap, "that sucks"); joke horoscope ("Your mood is in Uranus").
Consumerism: Entire film advertises real-life band McFly (here playing themselves); characters drop brand names, like Dolce (& Gabbana), Bergdorf's.
Drinking, drugs, & smoking: Drinks at party, reference to vodka, visible bar in upscale apartment provided to lucky boy.

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What to talk about

Talk to your kids

Families can talk about the concept of luck: Is it a function of chance or fate? How does it affect hope and ambition? How does the gypsy fortune teller both legitimize and make ridiculous the premise of luck (or fate, as these might be related)?

What's the story?

What's the story?

PR assistant Ashley (Lindsay Lohan) is very lucky. She gets a date with a wealthy, vacant pretty boy, David (Chris Carmack) and lands a super-important account within minutes. Assigned to organize a party for Damon Phillips' (Faizon Love) hot new record label, seems in her element until. Enter Jake (Chris Pine), who has nothing but bad luck. Jake sneaks into the dance party (wearing a mask), kisses Ashley, and steals her luck. From then on, while Jake gets his contract, a new apartment, new clothes and contact lenses, Ashley is beset by bad luck: Her high heel breaks, her apartment floods, she's arrested for pimping, and she blithely pops in a contact lens after retrieving it from a kitty litter box (ewww), leading directly to an infected eye and an eye patch. After a gypsy fortune teller (Tovah Feldshuh) explains the switch, Ashley and her best friends, Maggie (Samaire Armstrong) and Dana (Bree Turner), look for the masked man, in hopes of stealing her luck back.

Is it any good?

Is it any good?
 

Trying too hard to be perky, JUST MY LUCK becomes increasingly bogged down in clichés. Wouldn't you know, Ashley loses her job and apartment and ends up working at the bowling alley where Jake used to work: for no good reason, they fall in love, and then she must decide whether to take back her luck or let him go on having a great life. That these seem the only options makes the movie seem unimaginative, as do the "comic" set pieces: Ashley falling off a ladder, Ashley gagging on someone's used gum, Ashley battling an over-sudsing washing machine, etc.

Ashley eventually makes a right choice and at last the movie can end. The greatest mystery of Just My Luck is that it so badly uses Lohan, who can be terrifically charismatic and, as she was with Jamie Lee Curtis in Freaky Friday, prone to smart comic timing. This movie evinces little of that, only puts her in one silly situation after another.

Movie themes & details

Movie Details
Studio: Twentieth Century Fox
Director: Donald Petrie
Cast: Chris Pine, Lindsay Lohan, Samaire Armstrong
Genre: Comedy
Run time: 103 minutes
Theatrical release: May 12, 2006
DVD release: August 22, 2006
MPAA Rating: PG-13
MPAA explanation: some brief sexual references

This review was written by Cynthia Fuchs
 
 

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a mudt readed bok fro 8 year old kids cas wecant rteaded tha good
we are not vert good spllers so we cant readed hat goog

Jess12_2007
teen, 16 years old
 
It sucked!
I hated Lindsey Lohan! Boring much! It ended really dumb, uh who agrees! I mean this Movie hets my vote for HORRIBLE!

luv2sing0723
teen, 15 years old
 
GREAT MOVIE!!!! Fine for 9+
Loved this movie!! I actually think it's fine for 9+! I actually think it might have been ok PG!! I saw it when I was about 9 or 10 I think, and my sis did when she was about 6 or 7. Younger kids should watch it WITH their parents. But great movie!!

 
I thought it wuz cute!!!!!!!!
I enjoyed it and laughed quite a lot. I would definetely see it again, plus it had Mr. hottie Chris Pine! SO go see the movie!

islandgal
teen, 16 years old
 
this movie is ok
this movie is ok but, not the best movie lindsey lohan has been in but, i did like it. i saw it twice, its a good movie. i thinck it is apropreate for ages 10 and up.

EricaKnowsBest:)
kid, 11 years old
 
Lindsay Lohan actually has talent for once.
This is her only movie she acted good, she was fun and loveable! I totally love this movie. 8+ OK.

 
Funny, but not for younger children
I'm glad I didn't let my 6-year-old watch this!!!! This movie is hilarious, but more directed to older audiences. There is occasional cus words, and sexual refrences. Other then that, good family movie!!

Jadenp
teen, 15 years old
 
Could have passed for PG!
Could have passed for PG. It was an okay movie, I probably wont ever watch it again though. Ive seen PG movies that are far more inappropriate.

jay5
kid, 13 years old
 
A comedy about luck
This is a very good movie it is about Ashely Albright AKA Lindsay Lohan kisses a guy that she dosent know the name of.She leaves him to get a drink but then she chokes and her skirt rips and she gets arrested.It so happens she builds up a relationship with that some one.Will Ashley ever get her luck back.Find out by seeing just my luck coming to dvd march3rd 2007

A Girl Who ...
teen, 17 years old
 
I thought it was good!
It was really cute, and Lindsay Lohan is really pretty.

 
Cute Teen Flick
Great one to see with your teens. Fun with a happy, redeeming ending. Just enjoyable.

 
i cried
i liked that movie really much it's an incredeble movie it deals with emotions and make you laught at the same time i really enjoyed it!

drake12
teen, 16 years old
 
really good! SEE IT!!! SEE IT!!! SEE IT!!! LINDSEY LOHAN WAS REALLY GOOD IN IT TOO!!!!

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