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Just My Luck (2006): Dir: Donald Petrie / Cast: Lindsay Lohan, Chris Pine, Samaire Armstrong, Missi Pyle, Faizon Love: As with Freaky Friday, Lindsay Lohan stars in another dimwitted plot centering around magic only instead of a fortune cookie, it is a kiss this time. It is a comedy about coincidence starring lucky Lohan and unlucky Chris Pine. They meet at a party, share a kiss and suddenly he is successful and ends up promoting McFly, a band that has trusted him with little luck. Lohan loses her job, ends up in jail twice, and goes face first in art that resembles elephant dung. The magic aspect is unexplained and reduces the formula driven story to corny mishaps. Director Donald Petrie previously made The Associate and the overrated Miss Congeniality as well as the terrible My Favorite Martian. This isn't exactly moving upward in his career. Lohan is funnier than the material deserves but she is still at the mercy of lame storytelling. This is a big step down after her great comic performance in Mean Girls. Pine is also trudging in predictable idiocy. Supporting roles are flat including Samaire Armstrong as a friend of Lohan's and Missi Pyle as her boss. Despite its lack of magical explanation the film contains no magic of any kind. It could have examined superstitions but neglects so. Lohan fans expecting another Mean Girls are fresh out of luck. Score: 3 / 10

I had heard about this film a couple of times, obviously mainly because of the leading actress starring, and I was interested to see why the critics gave it a low rating, from director Donald Petrie (Mystic Pizza, Miss Congeniality, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days). Basically in Manhattan, New York, socialite and agency worker Ashley Albright (twice Razzie nominated Lindsay Lohan) seems to be the luckiest woman in the city (if not the world), who has success in her work, her social life and on scratch cards. Jake Hardin (Chris Pine) is completely the opposite of lucky, he is clumsy, noticed for the wrong reasons and failing to get anywhere managing his band from the UK, McFly (Tom Fletcher, Danny Jones, Harry Judd and Dougie Poynter as themselves). Their fortunes are due to change the night when they both attend a masquerade ball and in the spur of the moment, while he is masked, they share a kiss, and they seem to have switched their span of luck. So now Ashley has turned into the most unlucky woman ever, crossing paths with a black cat, smashing a mirror, dropping a hair dryer in the bath and much more disaster besides, while Jake has managed to get entrepreneur Damon Phillips (Faizon Love) to promote his band. Ashley is sure that the kiss was the cause for her sudden span of bad luck, so she is determined to find the man who kissed her and gain her original state back. She tries many guys she knows attended the ball, but kissing every one of them hasn't worked, and she she does inadvertently find Jake she doesn't have a clue he is the one, she enjoys his company. Eventually she does find out he has stolen her good luck, but knowing he is having the success he always wanted getting McFly their big break she cannot force herself to kiss him. However she does decide in a desperate move to kiss him, and of course her good luck is indeed restored so that she can gain back the good things in life, but her guilt comes back to haunt her. She shows up for the big gig McFly are putting on, and she helps Jake and the night go on with success, and in the end they form a way to both have not great luck, but maybe things will pick up for them together. Also starring Charlie and the Chocolate Factory's Missi Pyle as Peggy Braden, Bree Turner as Dana, Samaire Armstrong as Maggie, Tovah Feldshuh as Madame Z, Carlos Ponce as Antonio and Makenzie Vega as Katy. Lohan is reasonably good as the spoilt and suddenly humiliated and disastrous girl, and Pine is okay as the guy she will fall for, and McFly are fun to watch and hear with songs like "Five Colours In Her Hair" and "I'll OK", there are moments where the over the top bad luck disasters are amusing, but they could be equally be irritating, so it is a slightly disappointing romantic comedy. Adequate!

There's something just not much fun about this movie. The music is good, probably the best part of this film. It runs like a bad episode of the first season of some TV comedy/romance from the 1980s. It's cut just like a TV show. Point, shoot and Cut. Point, shoot and Cut.The schmaltzy music over the dialog, and lame set-ups that lead to predictable action are just a pain to watch.Lindsay Lohan's Character attempts to wax the floor with a motorized waxer while wearing ridiculous high-heels. Seriously, if you're wearing a pair of $600 designer shoes, are you really going to risk getting wax on them, even if your brain can't foresee the future result of your ass hitting the ground while attempting to move the waxer across the floor while it is running? I found myself, on more than one occasion, declaring out loud "Oh my God, this is so freaking retarded." The cinematography doesn't make up for the terrible, lame script. There aren't any really beautiful shots to marvel. The editors didn't even include any shots that capture the wonder of New York.The style of filming, as though it were a T.V. show pilot, is not forgivable, considering the budget.It's a paint-by-numbers film. So awful. Artless. Souless. They made this film on auto-pilot. The writer, director, editor, actors -- all sleepwalking.

Just My Luck isn't that bad. I like Lohan's movies. Light, simple, Disney-like, and cute. If you want something mature, you're looking in the wrong section. This movie is for the 23 year old or younger. But adults will find the amusement in the trials of growing up for young kids today.That said, both Lohan and Pine's characters are likable. They don't do drugs, swear too often, or do indecent things. They're pretty ideal and moralistic. What's not to like about that?Their story is based on their dreams and careers. Sure, Lohan went from big office lady to a bowling janitor, but that's JUST her LUCK! Funny irony. Pine got the LUCK but does good just the way he usually does. And Lohan learns to sacrifice. What's not to like about that?The music is good. Fun and upbeat pace. I barely knew how long/short this movie was. Just flew by and I enjoyed every minute. What's not to like about that?The story is simple. Girl has all the luck. Fate played a cruel joke on her. Luck goes to the unluckiest guy. Guy does good for himself while doing good for the now-unlucky girl. They fall in love. Guy and girl learn and perform sacrifice and gives luck to a young unlucky girl. end of story, audience feels good, we go home and embrace our blessings. What's not to like about that?I enjoyed this movie so much I may pop it into my DVD quite often. it's not overly-serious or overly-moral. It's just light and uplifting. It's a good Lohan movie and a really impressive Pine movie. I'd recommend it. Just think Disney. It's all good.