 Just My Luck is the film in which Lindsay Lohan makes her debut in an adult role. She had better luck with the critics as a juvenile. Jami Bernard in the New York Daily News comments on the "achingly stupid script" and says that "Lohan's good work in movies like Mean Girls and the Freaky Friday remake is a faint memory as she struggles through antics, unfunny pratfalls and squirmingly bad set pieces." Jessica Reaves in the Chicago Tribune begins her review by remarking, "Much ink and untold hours of meticulous public relations have been dedicated to Lindsay Lohan's recent attempts to escape the constraining (albeit lucrative) bonds of her child-star profile. If only someone had spent a fraction of that energy finding Lohan a worthwhile vehicle to launch her new 'grown-up' persona, this might be a very different review." Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times comments that he has liked Lohan's work since she appeared in 1998's The Parent Trap. "And I like her here, too, but like many another former child star, it's time for her to move on to more challenging roles. I am lucky enough to have seen her in Robert Altman's forthcoming A Prairie Home Companion, and so I know what we have to look forward to. Just our luck that we'll have Just My Luck to look back on." |
