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Avg. Critic Score: 29 out of 100 Generally unfavorable reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
12 Iffy for 12+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 60
    The Hollywood Reporter | Sheri Linden

    Has the feel of a contemporary screwball romance, if not the crackling one-liners of classic screwball. But Lindsay Lohan and Chris Pine make a charming star-crossed couple, and tweens and teens will find enough plot reversals to keep them hooked. Read full review

  • 50
    Variety | Justin Chang

    Helmer Donald Petrie seems at times to be making the modern-day equivalent of a Doris Day comedy, setting the pic in a lacquered fantasy New York, piling on cutesy-coy dialogue and mining a fluffy premise for all manner of far-fetched cleverness. Read full review

  • 50
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Watching Just My Luck, I wished I were a teenage girl, not for any perverse reason but because then I might have enjoyed it a lot more. Read full review

  • 50
    The New York Times | Dana Stevens

    Just My Luck is a bit of lukewarm cappuccino froth confected to float Ms. Lohan to the next stage of her career. Read full review

  • 50
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    An occasionally entertaining, always fluffy teen romantic comedy with some moderately funny physical comedy by gadabout star Lindsay Lohan. Read full review

  • 33
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    Even in her dullest vehicle, Lindsay Lohan exudes an unfakable shine. Read full review

  • 25
    Boston Globe | Wesley Morris

    This mangy comedy only demonstrates that Lohan's star power is too bright for falling into mounds of mud, rooting around in cat litter for a contact lens, and getting punched out by a roughneck jailbird, as she does here. Read full review

  • 25
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    The picture gives us two protagonists and sets up a situation in which only one of them can have a decent life. Then, having devised this sour souffle, the screenwriters find no adjustment to make it palatable. The resolution is flip, at best. Read full review

  • 10
    Washington Post | Stephen Hunter

    In the end, I can't think of a movie that matters less than Just My Luck. It's just negligible. Read full review

  • 10
    Los Angeles Times | Gene Seymour

    Stay as far away from Just My Luck as you can. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Iffy for 12+ Uneven Lindsay Lohan comedy; older tweens and up.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this movie includes a number of poop jokes. Lots of silly slapstick: The heroine falls into art (a pile of mud), falls off a ladder, and the hero is hit by a cab. Several characters are ruthlessly selfish and snobbish, and they lie and cheat one another. Women wear close-fitting, sometimes ridiculous outfits. A gypsy fortune teller is troublingly stereotypical. Characters drink, sometimes to drunkenness.
  • Families can talk about the concept of luck: Is it a function of chance or fate? How does it affect hope and ambition? How does the gypsy fortune teller both legitimize and make ridiculous the premise of luck (or fate, as these might be related)?
The good stuff
  • message true-1 Positive messages: Frequent gross-out humor, especially poop jokes. Characters lie and cheat.
What to watch for
  • violence false-1 Violence: Assorted pratfalls and spills by "unlucky" characters; when Jake falls on her and his pants accidentally fall down, a woman kicks Jake in his crotch.
  • sex false-1 Sex: Kisses between primary couple; one character is revealed to be a professional escort (and Ashley is arrested for pimping); some soundtrack music includes sexual allusions (including "Goodies," by Ciara).
  • language false3 Language: A couple of uses of "s--t out of luck" (abbreviated to "SOL"); "s--t," "kick-ass song," "damn it," "bullocks," plus obnoxious language ("sucking up," "crap, "that sucks"); joke horoscope ("Your mood is in Uranus").
  • consumerism false-1 Consumerism: Entire film advertises real-life band McFly (here playing themselves); characters drop brand names, like Dolce (& Gabbana), Bergdorf's.
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Drinks at party, reference to vodka, visible bar in upscale apartment provided to lucky boy.
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