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Just My Luck

EMAILPRINTTwentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

Just My Luck reviews
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6.3 User Score:

Generally unfavorable reviews

Based on 26 critic reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Comedy  |  Romance

Written by: I. Marlene King (also story)
Amy Harris
Jonathan Bernstein & Mark Blackwell & James Greer (story)

Directed by: Donald Petrie

Release Date:
Theatrical: May 12, 2006
DVD: August 22, 2006

Running Time: 108 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

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)

What The Critics Said

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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50

USA Today Claudia Puig

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

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50

ReelViews James Berardinelli

It's watchable, but barely.

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50

TV Guide Angel Cohn

It's enjoyable and profoundly unlikely to make a lasting impression on anyone.

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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.

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40

Empire Anna Smith

Occasional funny moments but this is very very thin.

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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.

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38

Chicago Tribune Jessica Reaves

Presumably, this movie was designed to be a fun romp, and in that it fails.

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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.

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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.

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33

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

Even in her dullest vehicle, Lindsay Lohan exudes an unfakable shine.

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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.

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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.

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25

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Winda Benedetti

The whole affair comes off as thin and artificial as a super model after a botox party.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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."

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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.

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10

Los Angeles Times Gene Seymour

Stay as far away from Just My Luck as you can.

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0

New York Post Lou Lumenick

An appallingly unfunny and unromantic romantic comedy.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 6.3 (out of 10) based on 16 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Who Cares? ? gave it a9:
Some boring parts but really funny and clever. One of lohan's best movies.

Jackie S. gave it a10:
That was a awsome movie.Not the best, but still,It was awsome.

Mark B. gave it a2:
a terrible movie but if it it keeps your girlfriend happy you may as well go and see it, it wont leave you feeling suicidal.

Eric Y. gave it a5:
It wasn't terrible... It was way too long. The last 20 minutes had me sitting there begging for the movie to end. Had some funny parts. One bonus was that we didn't have any trouble finding a seat. The only movie-goers to see this one were me, my girlfiend, her sister, and two teenage guys who came to watch Lindsay Lohan together. Wait for the DVD.

Undisclosed Name gave it a1:
Wow... That was horrid. Went to see it with some friends and was amazed by the stereotypical characters, horridly executed slapstick, and a story with no real purpose, save entertaining female tweens with bad enough taste to take this for decent entertainment.

lorraine g. gave it a10:
It's awsome!!! lindssay is my idol!!!

ian c. gave it a1:
I am sooo bored with this girl. She plays the same roles, the same way, with the same insuciant charm. No doubt she has talent, but she also has a big chunk of self entitlement bad attitude, and it leaves one wishing for the days when teen stars such as Elizabeth Taylor actually knew how to act (See "National Velvet").

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