Lohan's 'Luck' is neither good nor bad By Claudia Puig (USA TODAY) Updated: 2006-05-15 14:32

Teen girls will be in clover over hunky Chris Pine and his
romance with Lindsay Lohan in the romantic comedy.
Just My Luck is not a particularly auspicious film-going experience.But it is
an occasionally entertaining, always fluffy teen romantic comedy with some
moderately funny physical comedy by gadabout star Lindsay Lohan.
Though she's trying to be this generation's Lucille Ball, she doesn't come
close this time around. A talented young comic actress, she's not as likably
funny as she was in Mean Girls or Freaky Friday (which this movie echoes, with
its plot of switched existences). But teenage girls may find the movie engaging,
given the hottie quotient of Lohan's love interest, Chris Pine, and the catchy
music and offbeat personalities of hot young British pop band, McFly.
Lohan plays Ashley, a glamorous New York career girl blessed with unusually
good luck. If it's pouring out and she doesn't have an umbrella, the skies will
clear. She can get a cab almost anywhere. She wins lotteries and manages to
avoid unexpected misfortune like stuck elevators and, instead, ends up in a
smooth-running lift with one of the city's most eligible young bachelors.
Somehow, despite this charmed life, she is unspoiled, hardworking, and humble.
This is a teen fairy tale, after all.
Through a series of events hardly worth chronicling, she loses her good
fortune at a party when she shares a passionate kiss with a mysterious guy
(Pine, as a beautiful loser who dons geeky glasses when he's on his downward
spiral but tosses the specs when his prospects flourish).
You can figure out the rest. There are some fairly nauseating and unfunny
scenes involving toilet cleaning, and cat and dog excrement. The assumption must
be that those who see this PG-13 movie have been raised on a diet of
bathroom-humor comedies and are not quite ready to let that go.
The movie is a notch better than its obnoxiously cloying poster would
indicate: Lohan, in huge hoop earrings and fuzzy pink jacket, raises her
oversize sunglasses rakishly and winks exaggeratedly. Since Just My Luck is
aimed squarely at teens, this might be the movie to drop the kids off at, rather
than tag along. Or perhaps fortune will smile on you and the kids may want to
pass altogether.
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