Product Description

From the director of How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days, comes a "funny, twist-of-fate comedy" (KBWB-TV)! Lindsay Lohan lights up the screen as Ashley, the luckiest girl in Manhattan. But little does she know, her good fortune is about to change. When Ashley shares a kiss at a party with Jake, a bad luck magnet, they miraculously switch paths. Suddenly Ashley is plagued by one hilarious disaster after another, and Jake is headed for fame instead of failure. As she desperately races to find Jake and reverse her misfortune, Ashley discovers that her terrible twist-of-fate is the luckiest thing that ever happened to her.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8462 in DVD
• Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
• Released on: 2006-08-22
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Dubbed in: English, French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds
• Running time: 103 minutes

Amazon.com
Ashley (Lindsay Lohan) is lucky: She always gets a taxi, she always says the right thing when the right person needs to hear it, gorgeous dresses get mis-delivered to her apartment. But when she kisses a cute guy at a masquerade ball, her luck vanishes--because the guy is a total loser named Jake (Chris Pine, The Princess Diaries 2) whose collapsing life desperately needs a little luck. Suddenly everything goes right for Jake, while Ashley--who now can't take a step without breaking a heel--has to go on a mad search for the unknown guy she kissed so she can retrieve her stolen luck. Just My Luck isn't as creative with this whimsical premise as it could be, but there are amusing moments as the movie wends its way to the inevitable happy conclusion. As a Lindsay Lohan vehicle, this isn't as smart and funny as Mean Girls or as all-around likable as Freaky Friday, but it's superior to Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen or Herbie: Fully Loaded. Lohan's fans are likely to enjoy the light pop of the British band McFly, who play themselves and have a scruffy charm. --Bret Fetzer

Customer Reviews

An Awesome Chick Flick!!!
If a chick flick has a good storyline, then I'll watch it, and this had a good storyline! Everybody did an awesome job, especially Lindsay Lohan. Lindsay plays Ashley who is always extremely lucky. At a masquerade party, Ashley kisses an unlucky man named Jake. When they kiss, their lucks switch. Soon, Jake becomes powerful and Ashley has extreme bad luck. Her and her friends look for the guy she kissed, but she has 'no luck' finding him. When she meets Jake, she doesn't know that it was he who kissed her. Will Ashley get her luck back? If you like Lindsay Lohan and romantic comedies, you'll love JUST MY LUCK!!!

Pure Torture
The story idea isn't totally lame but the dialogue and acting make this too torturous to watch. Lindsay Lohan actually looked like she was reading from cue cards at one point in the film, and the delivery was like she was reading it for the first time..... horrible, horrible scene. In fact that scene was so bad I rewound it 3 times just because I couldn't believe what I was seeing! Don't waste your time on this movie.

Just plain fun...
I, like many, figured that this film was going to be disastrous. Lindsay Lohan has not really had a good track record as of late with her film choices. The last time she made something that wasn't wholly cheesy was in 2004 when she made the brilliant `Mean Girls', and even then it was her co-star Rachel McAdams who stole every scene. Since then though, Lindsay has kind of fallen into patterns of obscurity, making one bad teen flick after another. Now, `Just My Luck' is not a complete departure from that mold (it's not like this is a `smart' comedy) but it does lose a lot of the childish overtones for some genuinely funny moments.

The film follows Ashley Albright, a successful young woman who is unbelievably lucky. Everything just seems to fall into line for her making her life a walk in the park. Jake Hardin is her polar opposite. Nothing he does turns out right. He is inherently unlucky. He works a dead end job at a bowling alley and tries fervently to get one of the local bands signed by a record label to no avail.

That is all until one fateful masquerade ball when, after an unexpected kiss, Ashley and Jake find themselves swapping luck.

Quickly things fall apart for Ashley. She loses her job, she loses her apartment, she loses her mind. On the other hand Jake is rising up fast. The local bands demo tape falls into the right mans hands and Jake is instantly managing the band. Then Jake meets Ashley (without the masks on) and the two form a friendship, neither knowing that the other is the one they kissed that fateful night (which is always ridiculous to me since it's not like those masks they wear in these movies really hides anything...I think Lindsay had on a cream colored veil).

The film does pour on the `unlucky' bit a little too heavy in some scenes (NO ONE is that unfortunate) and the whole `passing of the unlucky survival backpack' was kind of (or really) lame, but for the most part `Just My Luck' hits its mark well. Lindsay is charming and actually quite stunning here. I don't think she's ever looked better. Chris Pine is decent enough as Jake to make his whole transformation believable. Missi Pyle always plays the same breed of train wreck, and she does it well so I can't knock her. We're not looking for award winning performances, just entertaining ones, and that is precisely what we get here.

Sure, `Just My Luck' is not a great comedy, but it is a good on and it proves to be Lohan's best film since `Mean Girls'. She's proven she can carry a teen comedy like this, now it's time for her to branch out (much like her `Mean Girls' co-star McAdams) and prove that she can be taken seriously.

That is if her mother will let her.