Just My Luck

Just My Luck
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Rated: PG-13
Cast: Lindsay Lohan, Chris Pine, Samaire Armstrong, Faizon Love, Bree Turner
Director: Donald Petrie
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Our Rating: 1.00
If a film has two credited writers, that’s not necessarily a red flag. But three can be a little suspect, and four, well ‘ let’s just say you’d better release your film in February when nobody’s paying attention. But five? That’s how many brilliant minds it took ‘ one more than Surviving Christmas ‘ to concoct Just My Luck, an amazingly unfunny ‘comedyâ?� vehicle for Lindsay Lohan to do her Freaky Friday thing again. She plays Ashley, a carefree, perpetually lucky winner who, as a fortuneteller’s fate has it, locks lips with a constantly unlucky loser (Chris Pine, a sensitive Rivers Cuomo type) and transfers her good fortune to him. Likewise, she catches his lousy karma. How wacky! Not merely regurgitating jokes from only slightly superior trading-places comedies, those five writers throw in a caricature of a record executive (Faizon Love) and a shitty emo band called McFly (ironic ’80s reference alert!). It only increases the hemorrhaging already caused by having to watch Lohan, who’s never been more unappealing.

This article appears in May 17-23, 2006.