Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Comedy
Tagline: Good luck charm. Bad luck magnet.
Plot: Ashley Albright (LINDSAY LOHAN) is the luckiest woman in the world, a person to whom all the good things in life have come far too easily. She can pick a lottery ticket at random and hit the jackpot. In New York, the world’s busiest city, Ashley never has to wait for a cab. And she has a terrific job as an account exec at a prestigious public relations firm. Everything goes Ashley’s way. And now, she’s been given a great opportunity to advance her career: she is to plan a masquerade ball in downtown Manhattan for record mogul Damon Phillips (Faizon Love) and his company.Jake (CHRIS PINE), on the other hand, is a bad luck magnet. His skies are always raining; his pants are always on the verge of splitting at the seams. His job is cleaning toilets at a bowling alley. But even a steady bombardment of catastrophes doesn’t dim Jake’s dreams. He thinks he may have his chance at the brass ring with his discovery of a rock band McFly. If Jake can keep his bad luck at bay for just one night, he’ll sneak into a masquerade ball and get McFly’s CD into the hands of music titan Damon Phillips. On this night when dreams can be made or broken, fate brings Ashley and Jake together on the dance floor. Instantly taken with one another, they share an electrifyingly kiss – and with that one
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 ...will fit on the spectrum somewhere between tiresome and insulting. From my perspective, it's watchable, but barely, and nothing I would go out of my way to locate, even if going "out of my way" represents using a remote control to change TV channels.  --James Berardinelli (ReelViews)
...Director Donald Petrie's instincts are good in the movie's second half as he pushes the physical comedy, but he's saddled with an actress who is simply not gifted when it comes to slapstick. Lohan is too self-conscious, and her sense of timing is shaky. Scenes that might have been really funny fall flat. Where there should be belly laughs, there are only a few weak chuckles. --PAM GRADY (Reel.com)
Playing a rather large and unexpected role in the film, the band is described a “cross between the Beatles and Blink 182.” That loosely translates into “bottomlessly awful.” Come to think of it, I guess they do fit in with everything else going on in “Just My Luck.”  --Brian Orndorf (eFilmCritic.com)
...Mixed crowds of adolescent girls and horny adult males will still fill the seats no matter how bad of a critical response it receives, and though I certainly don’t feel fortunate to have seen it, “Just My Luck” isn’t a complete waste of time.  --Jason Zingale (Bullz-eye.com)
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Donald Petrie
Miss Congeniality, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Grumpy Old Men |
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Lindsay Lohan
Mean Girls, Freaky Friday, A Prairie Home Companion |
 | Missi Pyle
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Big Fish, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story |
 | Chris Pine
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement, Surrender Dorothy, Confession | | | Bree Turner
She's All That, My Best Friend's Wedding, Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo | | |
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Fortunately, Lohan doesn't have to feign interest in McFly's earnest, sugarcoated whining. But she does have to slide around in a mess of soap suds. Why she agreed to front a movie tailor-made for Hilary Duff or the Olsens is a mystery. But I'm willing to look on the bright side and hope that a 20-year-old Lohan will graduate from teen dreck and remember ''Just My Luck" as a high-paying commencement exercise.  --Wesley Morris (Boston Globe)
A breezy screwball fairy tale with teen appeal.--Sheri Linden (Hollywod Reporter)
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