Just My Luck Movie
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Everything changed in the wink of an eye.
Good luck charm. Bad luck magnet.
Everything can change with a kiss.
Manhattan socialite, Ashley is the luckiest person in New York. Untill, one night she goes to a masquerade ball and meets, Jake. Jake on the other hand has the worst luck. After kissing Jake, Ashley is horrified to find out that she and Jake swapped luck.
| Lindsay Lohan | Ashley Albright |
| Chris Pine | Jake Hardin |
| Samaire Armstrong | Maggie |
| Bree Turner | Dana |
| Faizon Love | Damon Phillips |
| Missi Pyle | Peggy Braden |
| Carlos Ponce | Antonio |
| Dougie Poynter | Himself - McFly Band Member |
| Makenzie Vega | Katy |
| Jaqueline Fleming | Tiffany |
| Dane Rhodes | Mac |
| Ira Hawkins | Doorman Oscar |
| Donald Petrie |
4.80 out of 10 (4883 votes)
Visitor Reviews
A good movie for a girls night out!
posted on 20 Aug 2009Although I didn't expect to like this movie I was pleasantly surprised. I am not a fan of Lindsay Lohan but this movie was pretty good. The music was excellent and the plot wasn't bad either. A few things could be changed but for a Friday night out it for filled its duty. The characters grew and developed threw out the movie. I loved the fact hey had two 'main' characters and tons of supporting characters but it didn't feel like useless information. The part when Ashley (Linsay Lohan) is in jail is somewhat stupid and when she got punched in the face I thought that it wasn't really needed and it didn't really have a point in the movie except to exaggerate her bad luck. Another part that some what ruined the 'moment' was when Ashley (Lindsay Lohan) was having trouble with the washing machine and Jake (Chris Pine) comes to help and then after he arrives his niece Katy (Makenzie Vega) jumps in the bubbles and starts playing in them. I found those two parts a waste of time and I didn't really see the point of them. But all in all I did like the movie and I believe the friends that I went with enjoyed it. Although I will probably never watch the movie again.
Luck+Unluck= Luck +Un*Luck=Luck(1+Un)………….. just forget about the (1+Un).
posted on 18 Aug 2009Well I found the movie pretty entertaining. It's Silly Fun like someone said before. This movie isn't that very bad.Well Lidslay Lohan does seem Over-The-Top in the first scenes but maybe that's the way people with superluck are. Anyways her acting improves and her first time emotional role was pretty convincing. The actor Looks very convincing. He is very suited for the role.The story is pretty cheesy and is funny at times.To all the people about to view the movie well watch it with low expectations and then you will have fun. family with many daughters should watch it. oh also for Mc Fly fans. 6/10
Just My Luck - A Movie Review
posted on 15 Aug 2009Lindsay Lohan has been known as Walt Disney's remake queen ever since she debuted as an actress in 'The Parent Trap' to her most recent 'Herbie' remake. After a string of family friendly flicks, Lohan shed her sweet persona in 2004's hit comedy 'Mean Girls' and returns to the PG-13 comedy in 'Just My Luck'.
Lohan stars as Ashley Albright, a 20-something business girl, whose life runs as smooth as silk courtesy of her unbelievable luck. Jake Hardin (Chris Pine), a bowling alley janitor and sometime band scout, has a life filled with one mishap after the other. After a run in at a masquerade ball and an innocent kiss, Albright & Hardin's luck switches. Albirght, whose luck once brought her Sarah Jessica Parker's dry cleaning, now lives an ill-fated life; while Hardin's janitor job days are over to make way to be the manager of his discovered band, McFly. After losing her job, luxury apartment, and all around luck, Ashley embarks on a mission to find whoever kissed her at the masquerade ball to reverse the curse that has left her without an inch of good fortune.
Lohan, who was brilliant in 'Mean Girls', seems to have lost her on screen charm in 'Just My Luck' perhaps to her character's fixation with everything celebrity including shopping sprees at top dollar stores, sipping $200 dollar wine, and attending industry parties. As the film progresses, you can't help but not care whether this shallow gal gets her gifted life back. Chris Pine, on the other hand, does a passable job playing the once down on his luck now living the good life guy, Jake Hardin. In Jake's case, you root for his character to keep the luck received from Albirght until the films credits. Cameos in the film include Missi Pyle, former 'O.C.' members Chris Carmack & Samaire Armstrong, and the British band McFly.
Although 'Just My Luck' may be a mainstream film with a pea-pod sized plot, the film was mildly funny and upheld itself for its length (1 hour & 45 minutes). The film resembles a grown-up version of 'Freaky Friday', a remake Lohan has already done with great success, and for this reason it is worth viewing.
Just My Disgust
posted on 14 Aug 2009"just My Luck," which claims to be a funny comedy about unfortunate people, is truly not. It is actually a stupid movie about stupid people who do stupid things. Lindsay Lohan plays Ashley, who holds some cutesy little job, lives in a cutesy little apartment, and wears cutesy little clothes all the time. She's unbelievably lucky at the start of the film, and everything seems to go right for her. In the opening scenes, she receives an exciting outfit in the mail sent by mistake, curries favor with her obnoxious boss, and gets the boss a date with her "dashing" neighbor. Suddenly though, at a masked ball, she kisses Jake, and incredibly unlucky guy, and their luck changes. Jake manages the band McFLY, and witnesses their breakthrough, while Ashley loses her job, dirties her precious clothes, and is arrested. Of course, after a while, she meets up with Jake again and the film's predictability continues, even into the last cheesy moments of the film.Lindsay Lohan plays her role in the most over-the-top manner possible, making the audience loathe her shrill and obnoxious character. Chris Pine is fine as Jake, but I didn't believe for on second that his and Lindsay's characters could ever get together in reality. The humor in the film is completely slapstick, and we've seen it all before. We "get" to see Lindsay fall down, Lindsay get all dirty, Lindsay get hit in the head with a wine cork, Lindsay get electrocuted, Lindsay have gum dropped on her, and Lindsay lose her apartment, among plenty of other stupid and cliché moments.The basic idea of the film, about lucky and unlucky people, is actually an interesting idea. I think a good film could have been made where the leading lady thinks she's lost her luck, when in reality she's simply become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Unfortunately, this film asks us to believe in the power of luck, and that it is actually real, which is ridiculous and stupid. This is a dumb film that has no reality factor at all in it, and it steals all of its slap-stick moments from other superior comedies. in the end, "Just my Luck" stinks. Period.1/10
Just My Luck
posted on 09 Aug 2009Just My Luck may not be Lindsay Lohan's best film to date, but it was still really cute. I think teenage girls would like it more than adults or guys. If you want to see this film, I would recommend seeing it on DVD or if you just want a girls night out, then I'd recommend seeing it in the theater. I'd have to say that it was certainly better than Herbie: Fully Loaded, that was not a good movie. It looks like after this film she will be turning towards more mature roles in A Prairie Home Companion and Chapter 21. I can't wait to see the more "mature" side of Lohan.
Better than sleeping pills....;....Maybe a spoiler here
posted on 08 Aug 2009This movie feels like someone retrieved an old unusable 'I Love Lucy' plot and made the worst of it.The actors couldn't have done too much with a dumb plot and script like this, and they rose to the task. (They did nothing with it)The plot deals with an unlucky boy and a lucky girl, who meet and whose paths in life are exchanged. He gets lucky and she gets unlucky. I saw it on board a Lufthansa flight and felt as if I had been held hostage. There were no saving graces, no bright moments, no excuses for this waste of celluloid. The only thing one can say in the positive is that children could easily watch this movie and not be exposed to adult double entendre nor even the flatus humor that has crept into such movies as Lion King.
Remains cheesy and up-beat... what else did you expect?!
posted on 08 Aug 2009In watching movies like "Just My Luck", one of the many problems with reviewers is that they take the movie too seriously. Also, major magazine or newspaper reviewers take THEMSELVES too seriously, and forget that their "high-brow" and "intelligent" opinion often isn't shared by many movie-goers. Plus, you can also get a middle-aged man looking at a movie that's Blatantly aimed at teenage girls. Just remember with reviews that it's only ONE person's opinion – to really judge a film, you need to see it yourself.Anyway, let's look at "Just My Luck" – its main star is Lindsey Lohan, well known for feel-good, teen movies. No one's looking for something ground-breaking and deeply thoughtful with her movies, are they?! The plot line is simple enough too – The luckiest woman in the world accidentally swaps luck with the unluckiest man in the world, and hilarious scenarios follow as she tries to get her luck back. An interesting idea, which does have some brilliant comedy moments (Chris Pine's introduction to the audience, to name one), but the some of the "hilarious scenarios" Lohan goes through can sometimes just be traced back to plain stupidity, such as putting a contact lens directly back into her eye after it falls into a cat litter tray, or trying to use a floor waxer in stiletto sandals! I mean, come on!! Then again, maybe there was a subliminal message there, saying that most bad luck comes from bad intelligence… though probably not.There is another factor to consider for this movie – the appearance of the popular British pop-band, McFly, who play themselves and, in the movie, are managed by Chris Pine. Something to take into account is that this movie was mainly an attempt to launch McFly in America, and then cash-in back in England when their fan base flocked to the cinemas to watch their idols on the screen. Oddly enough though, for a film that's supposed to promote the band in America, it really fails to do this, by implying that the band do not write their own music. McFly pride themselves on writing all their own music (of which, only three songs get played repeatedly in an annoying start-stop-restart-stop fashion that you'll be yelling for earplugs into the first 20 minutes). It is also not made clear that the band is actually a real one either – many of the audiences left thinking that the band existed only in the movie-world, like Josie and the Pussycats or Spinal Tap.Another mistake in hiring McFly is that out of the four members of the band, it appears that only two of them can actually act - Danny Jones and Dougie Poynter (though Poynter only says a grand total of about 9 words in the entire movie) - while the other two, Tom Fletcher and Harry Judd, remain as wooden as a set of Judd's drumsticks. Then again, McFly are musicians at the end of the day, not actors, so perhaps it's unfair to judge them so strictly on their acting skills.That said, perhaps Fletcher and Judd's performances could be slightly due to the script, which has some truly awful dialogue at moments that all the actors on screen struggle to get their tongues around. And while McFly have the justification of being a band first, actors second, there's no excuse for Lohan, who has some appalling moments (her opening scenes are cringe-worthy), and is woefully miscast as a highly successful, mid-20's woman, when she looks like she's only just stepped out of high-school. Chris Pine makes up for this though, as the completely likable and optimistic S.O.L (!) manager of McFly.Like with any movie that's hailing Lindsey Lohan as it's main star, you should never expect too much from it, other than a cheesy, happy teen-movie. "Just My Luck" is let down by bad acting and lines, but overall, it has a feel-good vibe going, and doesn't take itself seriously, which is a fantastic thing to see in a movie today, and it serves this film well (though people might like to look out for the luck symbolism that is subtly scattered throughout the film, such as how Pine's apartment is "unlucky" number 13). It also has some moments that are genuinely laugh-out-loud (rather kindly, this film caters not only for fans, but also people who violently dislike Lohan or McFly and enjoy seeing them in pain / awkward situations). If you fail to crack a smile even once throughout this movie, then there's no hope for you in general. Ignore your prejudice and just go with it.7 stars out of 10.
It was just ok
posted on 07 Aug 2009I'm not going to summarize the movie for anyone because the editorial did a decent enough job. I would just like to make a few comments about the movie it's self. Lohan can't act. Her lines seem forced and it seems like she's reading them off cue cards. Her "funny" lines aren't amusing because she can't deliver them. Her acting is something that kids wouldfind ok. But to older people her mistakes and laugh of umph are apparent. Chris Pine is gorgeous and is a good actor. One wonders while watching the film how he got suckered into such a horrible cast. I will say it right now. McFLY is the only reason I went to see this movie. I've been a fan since they began so I couldn't miss them starring in a film. They had lines that made you giggle and they didn't do a bad job at acting. I was convinced by their role. They aren't going to be perfect because they are musicians, not actors. Yet during the movie I felt they did a better job then Lohan.
The plot of the movie was shaky. It could've worked out if it were planned out better. But no matter what way you change it the ending is going to be obvious to the audience.
To sum it up. It was a movie a teenie bopper would enjoy. The works of people like Lohan and Duff are really only going to appeal to younger teens and kids because the older audience whats to see movies that have some kind of story, not how many guys can Lindsay make out with in one hour.
Good for a movie night
posted on 13 Jul 2009OK i saw this at the cinema and was a bit disappointed but recently saw it again on DVD and found it to be much better than i remembered. I admit on first viewing it's a little cheesy and annoying but on second viewing, it's actually quite good. I think it has to do with the fact of seeing it in the comfort of my own lounge room. I also found that i wasn't as judgmental or analytic. If you just sit back and watch the movie for what it is, you'll enjoy it more. Otherwise you're just going to give yourself an aneurysm over plot holes in the script and whether some scenes had any point. I reckon it should have been released straight to DVD but whatever.Basically it's a fun, silly chick flick that relies a lot on physical comedy rather than wit. I'm more into witty comedy so it wasn't that funny for me but it was still amusing. I actually laughed quite a bit in one part that involves mud.Chris Pine is really good as Jake, if it wasn't for him then the whole movie would have fallen apart in my opinion. Plus i'm a huge fan of McFly so i had something extra to enjoy ;)In a nutshell...Just My Luck is really good for when you're having a movie night at someone's house and you want something cheery and simple to keep the mood light.
Why does this movie hate laughter
posted on 09 Jul 2009The worst type of film you can spend your time watching is an unfunny comedy. It becomes an endurance test, how much horrible word play, pseudo hip dialogue exchanges and ham fisted physical comedy can you withstand. Really a comedy, unlike other genres has only one goal: make the audience laugh. If you don't accomplish that, no matter how pretty the sets are, how much effort the actors give, it's all for naught. All this preamble for Just My Luck, because really there is not much to say about it. Lohan (so great in Mean Girls) seems to have let her cardboard cut out twin act in most of the scenes. Totally lacking any charisma. The story does her no favors being completely asinine. A good early indication of how wrong the movie is in its attempt at comedy is the opening scene where the young man tries to deliver the music CD to the music executive (I know these character have names, I just couldn't be bothered for a movie like this). Everything goes wrong for the character in this scene. An audience that has any reference for comedy will see every complication well before it happens. This kills a comedy. Laughter comes from unexpected events. Not a single thing in this movie happens that we are not all ready ahead of. Two stars.
The fickle finger of fate...
posted on 06 Jul 2009This one is a fable. JUST MY LUCK is a sweet and funny love story about a mismatched pair, Ashley and Jake. Ashley (Lindsay Lohan) has always been touched by fabulous luck, while ill fate seems to persistently hang over Jake (Chris Pine). One fateful night, at a masquerade party while wearing masks, they kiss and, somehow, their respective lucks flip flop. Now, with the world suddenly crapping on her, Ashley must find Jake in the Manhattan jungle and reclaim her good fortune before she again gets fired, arrested, or electrocuted, among other things. But, as it turns out, maybe meeting Jake wasn't that unlucky of a thing...
As I've said, this one's a fable. My advice for someone who hasn't yet seen JUST MY LUCK? Just sit back and go with the premise. Outrageous luck and even karma are integral to the plot, but don't overanalyze all the wacky events. JUST MY LUCK is a breezy romantic comedy which modestly tries to please its audience. It also showcases the British pop rock band McFly, whose band members cheerfully play themselves.
I enjoyed the acting here. Lindsay Lohan is again reliably engaging as, this time, she navigates the role of a glam girl turned very, very unfortunate soul. Lohan and Pine seem to match up well and show very good chemistry together; I found myself quite actively rooting for their happy ending. Chris Pine I had never seen in anything before, but he proves to be sweet and likable in his performance, with his klutzy side naturally engendering the most sympathy. Lohan continues to build on her promising career as, here, she displays equal measures of charm and pathos. She's very effective during her moments of bleakness, unveiling a touching vulnerability, which is never more endearing than when she at last calmly succumbs to a life of seemingly bad luck. I like the fact that she isn't afraid to look silly as she has several scenes wherein she careens into mud, commits pratfalls, or stumbles about in a broken heel as her ruined mascara gives her that raccoon look. Honestly, Lindsay Lohan is right up there with the young, up-and-coming actresses who can legitimately act. No, sit down, Tara Reid.
There are some funny gags in here as both the leads take their turns getting the bejesus kicked out of them by Lady Luck, including a gross out moment with Jake picking up some tainted cash from the trash. No, the storyline isn't as complicated in plot or as witty as some of Lohan's other works. What it has, though, is an undeniable sweetness and a certain good humored buoyancy which carries the viewer along until the happily ever after. This one rates three and a half lucky stars.
no surprises, it's as bad as you expected
posted on 27 Jun 2009Girl who takes her supernatural good luck for granted loses her mojo to unlucky but surprisingly cute loser. Of course you are wondering what happens next. Does she get it back? Does she learn a life lesson along the way? Do the two fall in love in the end?This isn't even the kind of bad movie that you can enjoy watching for the humor of how bad it is. Those are the movies with amateur actors or plots that don't make sense because they ran out of money half way through. Or the ones where they try to do something innovative and are just weird. This is worse -- it's professionally bad. Everything is smooth and marginally professional and completely predictable, and painfully boring.I saw this because there was a slight "not as bad as you expect" buzz, and now I'll admit I was suckered. This movie is so formulaic I doubt I'll even remember having seen it a year from now.
What a good luck charm!
posted on 11 Jun 2009Saw this yesterday evening at Vue cinema in Romford with my mate Annette and I was pleasantly surprised! The main plot is about Ashley(Lindsay Lohan), one of the luckiest girls ever, who looses her luck after kissing a cute stranger at a masked ball, and she is told by a fortune teller that she has to get it back by kissing the same guy again - cue the giggles.As most people know, McFly, who've had success in the UK star as the band under Jake's(Chris Pine) management. Having this band in the film really does affect who goes to see this film as I don't know many boys who like McFly - mainly girls, so yeah this is girlie teen film. If you don't like their music, you'll probably get annoyed with any performing and singing they do.I won't lie to you - after reading reviews by critics and IMDb users on here, I was worried it would be really crap, but fortunately, I happen to be a fan of Lindsay(especially in 'Mean Girls'), Pine('Princess Diaries 2)and McFly(have 2 of their albums), and the plot was good, so that was very fortunate.Yeah, there were some cringe-worthy moments(like Ashely eating a strangers' bacon), but some truly hilarious ones(like Jake getting arrested in the beginning and Ashley getting electrocuted). I can see though why this film flopped in the US - it's aimed at girls from 13-16(and tweens as well), so no, I couldn't say there's much in it for the guys to enjoy, unless they're gay ...It was worth the £4.70 ticket I paid and I'd see it again on DVD.
I love this movie
posted on 02 Jun 2009Ashley Abright (Lindsay Lohan) is a lucky and beautiful young woman who lives in Manhattan and has a cool apartment, an awesome career, two best girlfriends and fantasic clothes plus every time she leaves her apartment the sun always comes out. She always wins the lottery and everything always goes right for her. Then, when she holds a costume ball for her boss the "Dragon Lady" she meets a handsome man whom she doensn't know but dances with and they share a kiss. Just like that, Ashley's luck is gone. Her apartment floods, she ends up in prison and has to move in with her two friends. That is hard, and then she loses her job. Ashley goes to see the forunte teller from the ball that tells her in order to get her luck back, she must find the guy again and kiss him. After that, Ashley kisses a bunch of different men-but no luck. Nothing goes right for her. She falls into her boyfriend's statue model, she gets arrested again and she gets splattered by mud puddles. But then she meets a nice guy who helps her get a job at a boweling alley. It's hard at first, but Ashley gets better at it. Then she discovers that the the nice guy is really the guy she kissed at the ball. She doesn't know if she should kiss him again or if she shouldn't because then he'll get the bad luck again and he needs he good because his band McFly is performing at Hard Rock Cafe. The movie is funny, and I laughed at a lot of parts. Lindsay Lohan is beautiful and funny and adorable and I thought this movie was just as funny as her previous films "Freaky Friday" and "Mean Girls." And she and Chris Pine have chemisty together. A great romantic comedy.
McFly were brilliant in it
posted on 01 Jun 2009I don't mean to be teeny but McFly were brilliant in it and my best McFly moment was when Harry drops his drumstick down the shaft thing and gos O BOLOCKS because it sounded dead English. I also think that Dougie is good actor even tho he didn't say much and Chris Pine is fit! Also the bit where Danny says Dougies missing his mum is funny because it would probably be true in real life. All in all I think Just My Luck is brilliant for teens that like funny stories and McFly. Don't start singing if your going to the Odeon where I lie because they kicked us out when the end titles came on and I don't think thats fair because no one else was in the cinema! I'm blabbering on now because i have to have 10 lines.GO AND SEE IT! GO AND SEE IT! EAT SOME POPCORN WHILE WATCHING McFLY!
harmless but bad
posted on 16 May 2009This could be a fun movie for teenagers--cute young girls and guys, and mindless entertainment. If you are a parent, worried about what your kids might see at the movies, send them to this harmless flick. But the acting and script were about as bad as it gets, filled with every cliché possible, and there was even a stumble with dialogue with one character. The only reason I even gave this 2 stars was because, believe it or not, the concept of the movie was great. Good luck girl meets bad luck guy--fun concept, and should have been a fun movie. But it lacked charm, humour, and every line was spoken over the top. As a filmmaker, this is the kind of movie that really irritates me: If I wrote a script like that and submitted it, it would be roundly criticised. But somehow, Hollywood continues to make the very movies they claim they don't want to. Hard to believe.
Very funny
posted on 12 May 2009This was so funny. I loved that Lindsay was the luckiest girl ever. She reminds me of me. But I just hated all the bad stuff that happened to her. All of those incidents. Her friends, Maggie and Dana (Samarie Armstrong and Bree Turner) were funny all the time. Although, it was hard to think that Lindsay had played a college graduate. She was only about 18 when she was filming it.And Donald Petrie is a good director. I love How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days and Miss Congeniality. I'm glad Donald got the chance to direct Lindsay Lohan. I just wonder what this sequel will be like.This is a great movie for friends to see with each other, too. Not really date movie but friend movie.
(2.5 STARS) Not Terrieble as Critics Say But Still a Disappointing Rom-Com from Lindsay Lohan
posted on 09 May 2009Lindsay Lohan plays Ashley, luckiest career girl. She can do anything successfully with her good luck, but one day she accidentally trades her fortune with Jake (Chris Pine) the unluckiest guy in the city. Jake, wannabe rock band manager (for McFly as themselves) is given a big chance while Ashley loses everything. The story of `Just My Luck' is so simple and silly, and like `Freaky Friday' you don't have to take it seriously.
Now let's forget about the gossips and tabloids for a while, and look at the film's premise itself. Here's a working girl who can achieve anything, and anything here includes her own office. She then loses this supernatural power and tries to retrieve it with the silliest antics I ever saw these days. Yes, I know, as I wrote before, I should take the film as it is, a romantic comedy made for fun, but while watching it I was thinking about one thing.
What does Ashley really want to do? We are not sure from the beginning to the end. Ashley's two female friends or bossy supervisor are not definitely her goal. We find it hard to identify with anyone in the film and with Lindsay Lohan's limited acting range the film relies on easy sight gags that look out of place in this romantic comedy.
It is a pity because Chris Pine is surprisingly good and there is certainly considerable chemistry between the two leads. However, the film's contrived script goes too far when it shows a successful career girl in Sarah Jessica Parker's dress kissing a total stranger with a Zorro-like mask. I don't know the target audiences of the film (and I am not one of them, I know), but if you are among them, you would not confuse luck with stupidity.
One good thing about `Just My Luck' is its rock band McFly. The film is not bad as critics are saying, but it is still not good and the most regrettable thing is my favorite Missi Pyle is wasted again.
Not at all as good as I expected...
posted on 26 Aug 2009I managed to watch this movie today and I am pretty disappointed with it. The storyline was so predictable. In my opinion, even the acting was only pretty average. Right from the start to the finish, there were so many times when I thought to myself, now this is going to happen, and it plays out exactly as I imagined it...But it does have a few good laughs...But they seem to be pretty rare...If you decide to watch this movie, watch it to relax and have a fun time!Its a pretty silly concept as well, but I guess on a day with nothing else to do, just pop the movie in and watch it to unwind without having to exercise your brain! I give this movie 5 stars because it has Lindsay Lohan! If it was not for that I would not have even been able to sit through the movie!