JUST MY LUCK [review]
So I'd like to start off by saying that even though I have a distaste for Lindsay Lohan (who I fondly refer to as 'Hohan'), I often find myself going to her movies in theater. I went to FREAKY FRIDAY a couple times and thought she was pretty funny and held her own playing opposite Jamie Lee Curtis. I love MEAN GIRLS, and although I don't watch it very often anymore I hold a special place in my heart for the movie that showed high school almost as dramatic as my high school years were (just kidding... kind of). I hated Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen though, and I've only seen once, in the theater. I've seen both her made for TV Disney movies (GET A CLUE and LIFE SIZE). I intend to see A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION at some point. So I was standing at the consession line and realized exactly how funny it was that I was going to another Hohan movie when I hated her so much. I had the same problem with Mission Impossible 3, hated Tom Cruise but wanted to see the movie.
SPOILERS AHEAD
My first reason for going was the hottie of a love interest, Chris Pine, who was also the shining light in the disaster that was the Princess Diaries sequel. I have yet to see him in any other movies besides these two, but he will have two more movies out late this year or early next. He has to be the unluckiest cute boy ever in this movie, which you see in pretty much his first scene. Jake (Pine) is trying to get a demo cd to a producer for a band he manages when he runs into runner in the park, rips his pants as they fall and gets accused of rape and indecent exposure and still manages to miss the producer. You see exactly how unlucky he is when he asks his arresting officer to bring him to a specific precinct, because they treat him nice there. Then there's Ashley (Hohan) who whistles for a cab and 5 show up, who needs to be at work in 15 minutes and the traffic is magically fast... in New York City! She gets everything she wants, takes a meeting when all her superiors are busy and hits a slam dunk landing her a dream position at her PR firm. Everything goes smoothly and she manages to get a date with one of the most eligible bachelors in town, and gets a dress costing a couple thousand dollars that was delivered to her instead of it's owner, Sarah Jessica Parker, by mistake.
Of course things switch or there wouldn't be a movie, and it's all in a kiss. Apparently if you want good luck you should go around kissing every lucky person you can until you get one whose luck is transferrable... or not. One kiss is all it takes and Ashley has broken a heel, almost choked to death on an olive, and set her boss up with a male prostitute causing all three to get arrested. Ten minutes in jail and she's fired from jail and beaten up by a fellow inmate for back-talking. All the while Jake (Pine) has saved the life of the music producer he was trying to get the demo to, gotten an audition for his band and managed to not get hurt while jumping in front of a speeding vehicle.
Over the course of the next couple of days Ashley is in hell while she has lost her apartment and everything in it due to a flood, has moved in with her two best friends-causing the issues-and lost all her money. As fate would have it, her and Jake cross paths once again, but don't know that they've really switched luck with each other. Jake gets Ashley his old job as the janitor of a bowling alley and after having an initial rough go at it she finally makes it work, adapting to not being a princess anymore. Jake tries to help Ashley navigate the hard life of being unlucky and Ashley slowly falls in love with him before realizing he's the one who took her luck.
Ashley takes her luck back in one quick kiss before running out of the recording studio. In a few short minutes she gets her job back, a promotion, access to the company account via gold card and is on the road to regaining everything she lost. But she has a change of heart when she sees what a hard time Jake is having. In the end they kiss so many times they don't know who has the luck, but ultimately they give all of it to Jake's younger cousin. The family is seemingly the most unlucky family ever. The two think that they're doing fine, as nothing unlucky has happened yet, the movie ends on a final unlucky thing happening.
Wouldn't it make more sense to keep the luck between them though? Neither has any luck at all now, being the two most unlucky people in the world would be kind of dangerous. Why wouldn't they keep the luck and alternate days with it? Share it? It would be safer. I guess they didn't care what would happen to them without any luck. Jake can kiss his career goodbye as a band manager, because he couldn't make it without Ashley's luck in the first place. And Ashley can kiss her new job goodbye as well, without her luck she was stuck at a bowling alley, it wasn't until she got her luck back that she got her job back, as well as the promotion.
I like it and I recommend it.
Here is the imdb site:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0397078/
SPOILERS AHEAD
My first reason for going was the hottie of a love interest, Chris Pine, who was also the shining light in the disaster that was the Princess Diaries sequel. I have yet to see him in any other movies besides these two, but he will have two more movies out late this year or early next. He has to be the unluckiest cute boy ever in this movie, which you see in pretty much his first scene. Jake (Pine) is trying to get a demo cd to a producer for a band he manages when he runs into runner in the park, rips his pants as they fall and gets accused of rape and indecent exposure and still manages to miss the producer. You see exactly how unlucky he is when he asks his arresting officer to bring him to a specific precinct, because they treat him nice there. Then there's Ashley (Hohan) who whistles for a cab and 5 show up, who needs to be at work in 15 minutes and the traffic is magically fast... in New York City! She gets everything she wants, takes a meeting when all her superiors are busy and hits a slam dunk landing her a dream position at her PR firm. Everything goes smoothly and she manages to get a date with one of the most eligible bachelors in town, and gets a dress costing a couple thousand dollars that was delivered to her instead of it's owner, Sarah Jessica Parker, by mistake.
Of course things switch or there wouldn't be a movie, and it's all in a kiss. Apparently if you want good luck you should go around kissing every lucky person you can until you get one whose luck is transferrable... or not. One kiss is all it takes and Ashley has broken a heel, almost choked to death on an olive, and set her boss up with a male prostitute causing all three to get arrested. Ten minutes in jail and she's fired from jail and beaten up by a fellow inmate for back-talking. All the while Jake (Pine) has saved the life of the music producer he was trying to get the demo to, gotten an audition for his band and managed to not get hurt while jumping in front of a speeding vehicle.
Over the course of the next couple of days Ashley is in hell while she has lost her apartment and everything in it due to a flood, has moved in with her two best friends-causing the issues-and lost all her money. As fate would have it, her and Jake cross paths once again, but don't know that they've really switched luck with each other. Jake gets Ashley his old job as the janitor of a bowling alley and after having an initial rough go at it she finally makes it work, adapting to not being a princess anymore. Jake tries to help Ashley navigate the hard life of being unlucky and Ashley slowly falls in love with him before realizing he's the one who took her luck.
Ashley takes her luck back in one quick kiss before running out of the recording studio. In a few short minutes she gets her job back, a promotion, access to the company account via gold card and is on the road to regaining everything she lost. But she has a change of heart when she sees what a hard time Jake is having. In the end they kiss so many times they don't know who has the luck, but ultimately they give all of it to Jake's younger cousin. The family is seemingly the most unlucky family ever. The two think that they're doing fine, as nothing unlucky has happened yet, the movie ends on a final unlucky thing happening.
Wouldn't it make more sense to keep the luck between them though? Neither has any luck at all now, being the two most unlucky people in the world would be kind of dangerous. Why wouldn't they keep the luck and alternate days with it? Share it? It would be safer. I guess they didn't care what would happen to them without any luck. Jake can kiss his career goodbye as a band manager, because he couldn't make it without Ashley's luck in the first place. And Ashley can kiss her new job goodbye as well, without her luck she was stuck at a bowling alley, it wasn't until she got her luck back that she got her job back, as well as the promotion.
I like it and I recommend it.
Here is the imdb site:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0397078/