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Just My Luck

By Cynthia Fuchs, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 13+

Uneven Lindsay Lohan comedy; older tweens and up.

Movie PG-13 2006 103 minutes
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A Lot or a Little?

What you will—and won't—find in this movie.

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age 13+

Based on 2 parent reviews

dramaqueen@hotmil.com
[email protected] Parent of 13-year-old
January 21, 2013
age 12+

cool movie.

cool movie good enough for tweens and teens.
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esra2.sob7y Adult
November 27, 2008
age 13+

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!
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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?

Our review:
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Kids say (10 ):

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.

Talk to Your Kids About ...

  • 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)?

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