Just My Luck 2006

Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: A romantic comedy even more idiotic than its embarrassing (and somewhat creepy) poster would indicate. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: If Just My Luck was intended to showcase a more grown-up Lohan (she'll soon be 20), it fails -- but it gives hints of the fine screwball comedian she's already becoming. Read more

Jessica Reaves, Chicago Tribune: Presumably, this movie was designed to be a fun romp, and in that it fails. Read more

Christy Lemire, Associated Press: Just My Luck is the worst kind of comedy -- one that assumes the audience can't think for itself, and therefore feels the need to punctuate each sight gag with obnoxiously jaunty music. Read more

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: ... a real piece of junk. Read more

Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: It's a thin premise stretched paper thin into a feature-length romantic comedy. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: A lazy spitballing session of karmic humor, hinged on the sort of generic rom-com contrivances that keep movies like these from ending at a reasonable time. Read more

Kathy Cano Murillo, Arizona Republic: Just My Luck is a fortune cookie of a movie, without the fortune: The outside looks sweet and tasty, the inside is hollow and dry. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Why [Lindsay Lohan] agreed to front a movie tailor-made for Hilary Duff or the Olsens is a mystery. Read more

Michael Booth, Denver Post: Just My Luck is a safe teen movie that teens will actually like, and there are far worse things than that. Read more

Adam Graham, Detroit News: In the end, Just My Luck is light, fluffy and as quickly forgettable as a tossed-aside horoscope. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: ... a variation on Freaky Friday buffed with a bit of 13 Going on 30's yuppie-career-princess gloss. Read more

Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: The screenplay for Just My Luck is credited to five writers, all of whom relied on their DVD collections for inspiration. Read more

Nancy Churnin, Dallas Morning News: Throw in a hot new British bubblegum band, McFly, a bit of magic, romance, humor and a happy ending, and you've got a good, old-fashioned escapist popcorn flick. Read more

Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: Looking tired and sallow and drained of her customary glow, Lindsay Lohan marches grimly through this mechanical tween comedy as if it were a particularly tedious homework assignment. Read more

Gene Seymour, Newsday: Her every faux pas comes across as rank humiliation and it can only be entertaining for sadistic mall rats who get their jollies seeing Miss Budding Superstar wallow in grime and slip on soap. Read more

Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: Lindsay Lohan may be all grown up in the tabloids, but her latest movie doesn't reflect any newfound maturity. Read more

Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: The new Lindsay Lohan romantic comedy, Just My Luck, needs more than just luck to overcome an achingly stupid script. It needs a miracle. Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Just My Luck runs out of luck long before it runs out of film. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: 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. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It's safe, competent and bland. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Lohan shows signs that she might really be an actress. Maybe a good one. But to say the least, Just My Luck is not a flattering showcase. Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Both a goofy little sugar-high of a comedy and a canny bit of image rehabilitation for the tabloid-tarnished starlet. Read more

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Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Just my luck that the movie is directed by Donald Petrie, who made the a similar Manhattan-set How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, though this time it's vaguely crossed with the magic plot of 13 Going on 30. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Word on the street -- we're not sure which street -- has it that Just My Luck is Lindsay Lohan's final teen comedy. If so, the timing couldn't be better. Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: The assumption must be that those who see this PG-13 movie have been raised on a diet of bathroom-humor comedies and are not quite ready to let that go. Read more

Justin Chang, Variety: As disposable as a broken mirror, Just My Luck plays like a focus-group compilation of everything a 12-year-old girl could want in a Lindsay Lohan movie. Read more

Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: I can't think of a movie that matters less than Just My Luck. It's just negligible. Read more