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Just My Luck
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
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FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG13 for some brief sexual references
Starring
Lindsay Lohan,
Chris Pine,
Samaire Armstrong,
Carlos Ponce,
Bree Turner,
Faizon Love,
Makenzie Vega,
and
Chris Carmack
Ashley (Lohan) is the luckiest girl in New York City, where she has a promising career and a life full of glamour and romance. Jake (Pine) is the unluckiest guy in town, tormented by constant mishaps and missed opportunities. Everything changes for Ashley and Jake when they meet at a swank masquerade party, share a kiss, and miraculously swap their luck. Now Ashley's ultra-fabulous life is going completely sour while Jake is finally living large. But Ashley is determined to track him down and steal her luck back. (20th Century Fox)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
I. Marlene King (also story)
Amy Harris
Jonathan Bernstein & Mark Blackwell & James Greer (story)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Donald Petrie
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: August 22, 2006
Theatrical: May 12, 2006
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| RUNNING TIME: |
108 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
63
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Lohan is superfluous to the qualities that elevate the film above other Clearasil comedies.

60
The Hollywood Reporter
Sheri Linden
Has the feel of a contemporary screwball romance, if not the crackling one-liners of classic screwball. But Lindsay Lohan and Chris Pine make a charming star-crossed couple, and tweens and teens will find enough plot reversals to keep them hooked.

58
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
All this might be forgivable if Just My Luck had a little more substance, but it never moves beyond the single joke of its premise.

50
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
Just My Luck is a bit of lukewarm cappuccino froth confected to float Ms. Lohan to the next stage of her career.

50
Variety
Justin Chang
Helmer Donald Petrie seems at times to be making the modern-day equivalent of a Doris Day comedy, setting the pic in a lacquered fantasy New York, piling on cutesy-coy dialogue and mining a fluffy premise for all manner of far-fetched cleverness.

50
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Watching Just My Luck, I wished I were a teenage girl, not for any perverse reason but because then I might have enjoyed it a lot more.

50
USA Today
Claudia Puig
An occasionally entertaining, always fluffy teen romantic comedy with some moderately funny physical comedy by gadabout star Lindsay Lohan.

50
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
It's watchable, but barely.

50
TV Guide
Angel Cohn
It's enjoyable and profoundly unlikely to make a lasting impression on anyone.

50
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Whimsical fantasy tends to work best when its premise is used sparingly, but in this case the fantasy element takes over the story, becoming mechanical and often confused.

40
Empire
Anna Smith
Occasional funny moments but this is very very thin.

40
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
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. Which it is.

38
Chicago Tribune
Jessica Reaves
Presumably, this movie was designed to be a fun romp, and in that it fails.

38
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
Lohan's good work in movies like "Mean Girls" and the "Freaky Friday" remake is a faint memory as she struggles through antics, unfunny pratfalls and squirmingly bad set pieces.

38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
Just my luck that I saw the trailer for the film several times and already knew all of this, which made the long-form version of the movie redundant.

33
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Even in her dullest vehicle, Lindsay Lohan exudes an unfakable shine.

25
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
Just My Luck, a lazy spitballing session of karmic humor, hinged on the sort of generic rom-com contrivances that keep movies like these from ending at a reasonable time.

25
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
The picture gives us two protagonists and sets up a situation in which only one of them can have a decent life. Then, having devised this sour souffle, the screenwriters find no adjustment to make it palatable. The resolution is flip, at best.

25
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Winda Benedetti
The whole affair comes off as thin and artificial as a super model after a botox party.

25
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
This mangy comedy only demonstrates that Lohan's star power is too bright for falling into mounds of mud, rooting around in cat litter for a contact lens, and getting punched out by a roughneck jailbird, as she does here.

25
Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
Just My Luck is way too long for such a slight premise, and Lohan, so appealing in Mean Girls, is years too young for the part.

20
Film Threat
Michael Ferraro
The kind of film that's too romantic for younger viewers and too redundant for young teens. For both sets, the laughs come infrequent (if at all), no thanks to Lohan giving another sub par performance.

11
Austin Chronicle
Toddy Burton
No doubt this film will please the pre-teen set, but they'd be so much better off staying home and renting "Mean Girls."

10
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
In the end, I can't think of a movie that matters less than Just My Luck. It's just negligible.

10
Los Angeles Times
Gene Seymour
Stay as far away from Just My Luck as you can.

0
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
An appallingly unfunny and unromantic romantic comedy.


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