Just My Luck
Review
by Clint Morris
They say Just My Luck is
Lindsay Lohan’s entrance into adulthood. Hmmm...
If that’s the case, then she must have been
wearing her diapers under her overalls in those previous films, because
she’s definitely still dancing at the under-18s disco here. In
fact, the only adult thing about the red moppet’s latest effort
may be the stout melon’s that are strapped to her chest. Yep, a
couple of unadvertised cameo appearances in this one.
Unfortunately, even they won’t even be
enough to entertain Dad.
Her career is like the perplexity that
arises the
night before Daylight savings begins – is she going back? Is she
going forward? It’s hard to say. One thing’s for sure,
Lohan needs a ‘big hand’ if she’s to keep up with the
still-ticking clock.
In her latest ‘vehicle’, Lohan plays a
‘young woman’ (hence, the revealing attire she wears this
time ‘round) who seems to have an immeasurable amount of luck.
Rob Lowe-look-alike Chris Pine plays her opposite, a chap whose life is
full of black cats and broken mirrors.
When they spontaneously meet lips at a
masquerade ball, his bad luck passes onto her, and vice versa.
All the boxes on the ‘must appeal to the
12-year-olds’ checklist has been marked with an 'X' here. Thing
is, Disney did it much better.
Luck
is a
slapdash effort – lackluster gags, skeletal script, but mostly,
just a rehash veiled as a ‘new idea’. Sure, they’re
not swapping bodies, shoes, socks and jobs, but for all intents and
purposes, what we’ve got here is a ‘body swapping’
movie (yeah, akin to Like
Father, Like Son, Vice Versa,
and Freaky
Friday – which starred Lohan), only it is spit being
swapped, rather than souls.
Okay, so the film will probably entertain
its
target market – that I can admit (there were a dozen smiling, and
sometime giggling faces at the screening I attended). There’s
some juvenile laughs, some bouncy pop music (by newcomers McFly), and
Lohan doing her best Lucille Ball – again. Kids seem to desire no
more.
Anyone ‘tall enough to go on this
ride’ might be best served saving his or her carnival
coupons for something a little more exciting.
2 out
of 5
Just
My Luck
Australian release: 15th June, 2006
Cast: Lindsay
Lohan, Chris Pine, Samaire Armstrong, Faizon Love, Bree Turner
Director: Donald Petrie
Website: Click
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