The Chris Pine Project: Just My Luck (2006)
Last night I watched Just My Luck.
It's a nice movie. While it was obviously made to make money, the story is nothing but a simple twist on a fairy tale in modern days. On one side you have the luckiest girl in the world, to who everything that is good happens without any work from her part being required. On the other side there's the unluckiest boy ever, who cannot get a break.
It was with some trepidation that I watched a Lindsey Lohan movie, but as in other of her movies, if you suspend all knowledge of her personal life, you can actually enjoy her performance: she's a cute girl with great comedic timing.
I also liked the actresses playing her best friends, Samaire Armstrong and Bree Turner.
Now, while Lindsey plays her role as a privileged little girl with ease and you balance between wanting to slap her or laughing at her, it's the unlucky boy that really makes you feel for him. As the 5 first minutes of the movie roll, Chris Pine's character Jake gets splashed with dirt water, rips his pants, grabs a poo-covered fiver, gets run over by a jogger, kicked in the privates, tackled to the ground and arrested. All in a day's work for him. But when he gets home and you see him with his little cousin, Katie, blue eyes behind a pair of glasses and that little smile on the corner of his lips, after a horrible day, still being nice to the unlucky little girl and cracking jokes ("she's got a bun in the oven?"), you are finished. It is your destiny from this moment on to love, cherish and respect Chris Pine. All hail Chris Pine.
All jocking aside, it was indeed a funny movie, made as a publicity instrument for both Lohan and British band McFly. The McFly scenes are a bit off, a bit obvious, but Lohan delivers all that is expected of her.
In the end of the hour and a half, I had smiled through most of it, laughed a lot and had a definite good feeling in my chest.
Pine might commiserate about the Romantic Comedies in his past, but I say there's nothing wrong with them, if you mix and match with stuff like Bottle Shock.
Rock on, Mr Pine.