Just My Luck

PLOT:

The movie is about always lucky and popular Ashley Albright (Lindsay Lohan) who is never used to a normal life. Luck always keeps striking her side and on the other hand there is Jake Hardin (Chris Pine) who is the manager of a music band called McFly. He is exactly opposite to Ashley and always has bad luck with girls.

Ashley,through persistent methods of keeping a client at the office, manages to convince him about her idea of a masquerade party.All this however was done without the presence of Ashley’s boss and to her suprise,Ashley’s boss Peggy is impressed and and leaves Ashley the task of organizing the party. Jake wants to come to the party with the idea of meeting a very famous person who could publicize the McFly band in New York City.He claims to be a dancer for the masquerade bas and gains entry.

A fortune teller at the place tells Ashley that there may be a change in her life because of fate and she may get bad luck but Ashley doesn’t believe her. When Jake sees Ashley there he is stunned by her beauty and asks her for a dance and neither of them can see the other because they wear masks. When both of them kiss their lucks swap and Jake gets good luck and Ashley gets bad luck.

Jake spots the person (Phillips) whom he has wanted to get to publicize the band he coaches,McFly.A cut off cab heads straight towards Phillips but Jake pushes him out the way thus causing himself to be hit by the cab.Through his luck he is unharmed and as a thank you ,Phillips who is in charge of a major record company signs the band which actually is to his liking.

Ashley’s bad luck soon kicks in and she goes to jail because the guy that she set her boss up with for the party turns out to be a prostitute. When she returns home she finds that her house had been affected by a flood and a mold infestation in her walls.She is given a mere box of what is left of her possessions.

She goes to her friends’ house, where she plans to stay until she bounces back from her unfortunate turn of events. At her friends’ place she breaks the mirror and then drops her contact lenses off at the cat litter box and wears it again causing a major eye problem. She hunts down all the dancers from the same company who supplied the dancers at the masquerade bash.Being as Jake was not an actual dancer she is forced to run out of hope for getting her luck back fro which a visit to the same fortune teller entails that she must kiss the same person from the party for her life to return as it once was.

Upon returning from prison yet again for ruining a work of art the previous night Ashley stops at at a cafe where she is rejected because of a lack of funds.As she leaves she creates mass chaos and makes a mad dash out of the cafe with the help of Jake who in turn offers Ashley a chance to get his previous job as a janitor/food delivery person at the bowling alley.Ashley desperate for a job accepts and after much trials she gets the knack of how her job is done.

On a rainy day, Ashley is helpless and Jake takes a reluctant Ashley to his huge house where she tries to wash her clothes but puts too much powder into the washing machine due to her bad luck, (resulting to a room full of bubbles),where they almost kiss but are interrupted from Jake’s young cousin Katy.

Later, Jake takes her to the place where McFly is practicing and she finds out that Jake is the one who has her luck and kisses him and then Jake gets his bad luck back. As Ashley’s luck finally returns, she runs into her old boss who offers her to work again for the high position of her VP which she would be appointed at a meeting that night. That night, she thinks about how her life was when she still had her luck and how Jake used her good fortune after giving it to him.She decides that her life was more enjoyable without luck and she chooses to not attend the meeting of her new presidency but instead to arrive at Jake’s first concert for McFly of which things aren’t running too smoothly.

At the concert, things begin to take a wrong turn when one of the band members, Harry Judd, goes missing and then Ashley comes, kisses Jake returning to him her luck and Harry returns, and turns the concert into a big hit.

Ashley decides to end contact with Jake as she doesn’t want their luck to be switched again being that Jake put the good luck to better use than Ashley ever did. She goes to the railway station where she finds Jake and he tries to convince her that she was all he wanted. They then kiss each other relentlessly causing their lucks to swap without stopping and without them knowing who has good luck and who does not. Then, they both see Jake’s little cousin, kiss her at the same time and she gets all the luck and wins a scratch card lottery of twenty-five dollars. Later, they find a quarter deciding that they still have some luck left only seconds later to be drenched in water by a broken water line thus signifying that they truly are out of luck.

REVIEW:

This film isn’t half bad, but it isn’t half good either.

Lindsey Lohan carries the entire film on her back. Take her out, and this thing goes to pot. None of the other character are of any interest at all, except maybe Faizon Love who is grossly underutilized in this role and Carlos Ponce who is more of a cameo than an actual character.

Having said that, the plot of the film is one that has been explored before, but not with such positive results. Now, I’m not saying this is the best film about luck switching, but they could have done a lot worse. I think my issue is with Chris Pine. Nothing against him as an actor, but I think they could have cast someone that could carry the load of being the lead actor better. Pine just doesn’t cut it…and just think, he’ll be Captain Kirk in the upcoming Star Trek film.

I can’t say you should go out and rent this, but chances are it won’t be coming on TV anytime soon, so unless you want to wait it out, then go ahead and rent it, but don’t rush to see it, unless you’re a Lindsey fan.

2 1/2 out of 5 stars