'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.

 

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.

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.

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?


'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.

1 and a half out of 5 hot dogs

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.

2 out of 5 hot dogs

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.

2 and a half out of 5 hot dogs

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