Just My Luck
Published 2025-09-07
Film info
- Title Just My Luck
- Director Donald Petrie
- Year 2006
- Run time 1hr 43m
- Genres Fantasy, Drama, Comedy, Family, Romance
- Tagline Everything changed in the wink of an eye
- Cast Chris Pine
Manhattanite Ashley is known to many as the luckiest woman around. After a chance encounter with a down-and-out young man, however, she realizes that she’s swapped her fortune for his.
Live blog
| Time | Comment |
|---|---|
| 3:00 | Trying to make a handsome man look less handsome with beanie hat and glasses. |
| 9:51 | Wondering if I should calculate how much my minutes are worth. |
| 16:17 | It really is introducing McFly, WTF? |
| 21:29 | It would be annoying to have a friend that lucky, but she's too nice to hate. |
| 24:10 | Sugababes on screen, too, what's with all the British bands? |
| 32:26 | Way to put people off kissing if you hoover up each other's luck. |
| 37:34 | "An idealist and a purist, I like that. I used to be like that once but then I decided to become filthy rich." |
| 43:02 | Some of this is not bad luck but just plain stupidity. Who throws a hairdryer into a bathtub with water? |
| 46:11 | "I still think you're crazy, I'm just here to observe and mock." |
| 57:34 | I like the idea of translating things in to French just to soften the blow. |
| 1:03:10 | BAD CHOICES. |
| 1:17:42 | How does this resolve itself? You can't learn lessons from being lucky or unlucky. |
| 1:22:50 | Love that Harry takes his drumsticks everywhere. Emotional support drumsticks. |
| 1:31:40 | Just a McFly concert now, I like it. |
| 1:37:03 | Now they both have terrible luck, silly billies. |
Thoughts
Objectively this is a terrible film. It doesn't really make any sense, even if you go with the fantasy plot of being able to transfer your luck through kissing. Why are McFly in this? It feels like McFly propaganda at several points, and boy, if I never hear Five Colours in Her Hair again it will be too soon. Lindsay Lohan seemed fine but apparently had many drug-related meltdowns while making this film which surely didn't help matters.
But I have to admit to enjoying it. It was a tired and loopy evening anyway, so it fitted perfectly and was pretty entertaining for the mood I was in.
Rating: 2 / 5