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'Just
My Luck' stars everyone's favorite paparazzi-stalked tabloid
celebrity, Lindsay Lohan as a successful New Yorker who
has a sort of supernatural streak of good fortune. Through
a series of strange events, she loses her luck to a lovable
loser [Chris Pine].
It's
a fluffy fantasy/comedy that answers such pressing questions
as: Will Lohan get her luck back? Will Pine remember Lohan
from the party where he met her? Will Lohan's twitchy friend
stop twitching? Will we have to sit through another entire
song from British band McFly?
'Just
My Luck' floats along as light and wispy as an episode of
'The Brady Bunch.' The stakes aren't very high, everything
will be tied up neatly in the end, and the characters are
so one-dimensional that you can't even imagine Robert Reed
attempting one of his 'little talks' on this group.
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Lindsay
Lohan seems to have temporarily 'jumped the shark' with her
career, making movie after movie that looks like it was shot
in a hurry. Last summer's Herbie movie, which we reviewed,
also starred Lohan, and like 'Luck' it also felt rushed and
not really complete.
In
'Luck,' the script it so full of holes and unanswered questions,
and the characters behave so strangely, that you really can't
spend too much time thinking about what's going on.
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Plus,
it's a movie that doesn't know what it wants to be. Had it
been more 'Disneyfied,' like the recent 'Freaky Friday' also
starring Lohan, they could have cut the language [I remember
hearing the 'sh'-word a few times], and appealed to the 7-10
year olds.
As it
is, parents of young ones might blanch at the language [not
to mention the racey previews before the show - yikes!], but
tweens and older kids would be groaning at the stupidity and
silliness.
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One wonders,
with all of Lohan's supposed 'political capital' in the Entertainment
Industry, if this is the only type of script she's being sent.
Or, if she really has multiple choices, why she even bothers
with a project like this.
On the
other hand, with Kate Hudson, Owen Wilson and Oscar-nominee
Matt Dillon spending time doing 'You, Me and Dupree' -- maybe
this is the best these people are being offered.
Just our
luck, huh?
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'Just
My Luck' suffers from a personality disorder. Not kid-friendly
enough to take a 7 year old, but too silly and vapid to
interest tweens. Check out McFly
at their shagadelic website.
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1
and a half out of 5 hot dogs |
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Overall,
the movie was boring. I just didn't beleive that Lindsay
Lohan was a high-powered executive living in Manhattan.
With all the fake eyelashes, and fake tan, it just didn't
work for me. The girls playing her friends were really annoying.
The whole movie might have worked well as a fantasy, but
when you set in New York, and shoot on location, it's hard
for all the silliness to work very well.
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2
out of 5 hot dogs |
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I'm
not really sure I liked it or not. At first, I thought it
was good, then the more I thought about it, I didn't really
dig it. Overall, I'm not a big fan of Lindsay Lohan, she
sort of bugs me. But at least she looked cute in the movie,
and I really loved her clothes. Chris Pine was really good.
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2
and a half out of 5 hot dogs |
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