A pleasant movie for Lindsay Lohan fans – others might find it a bit trying.  The niche market is teenage girls.

Lindsay Lohan has had a screen career so far in playing doubles.  She played the twins in the re-make of The Parent Trap.  She played daughter and mother-as-daughter in the remake of Freaky Friday.  She played nice and then mean in Mean Girls.  She maintains this little tradition in Just My Luck.  At first, she is supremely lucky.  Everything goes right for her, everything she wishes.  Then she kisses a young man at a business party she has organised (perfectly!) and her luck transfers to him.  She then plays unlucky (accident prone, often drenched, continuous pratfalls).

The young man (Chris Pine) could certainly do with some luck.  He is a kind of janitor at a bowling club but also a would-be producer for a young British boy band (the actual band McFly).

Lindsay then spends a lot of time with her girlfriends trying to find the man she kissed to get her luck back.  There are tongue-in-cheek fortune tellers.  A whole lot about superstition.  But, ultimately, we realise we are to take responsibility and make our own luck – and not be selfish about it.

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