‘Luck’ DVD lacks luster
While movie is a cute flick, extra features come up short
By Lisa Roney, staff writer
Posted on August 31, 2006

Watching Lindsay Lohan get everything she wants can get very old very quickly, but seeing the opposite happen makes "Just My Luck" one of the starlet's more entertaining flicks.

Sadly, the DVD's special features are as unlucky as her character is in the movie.  Even interviews with the cast, a staple on most film discs, are absent from this one.

The "Look of Luck" featurette spends a pointless two-and-a-half minutes looking at certain costumes and why they were chosen, and how the wardrobe allowed the actors to perceive their characters in a certain way. 

Three deleted scenes are included in the DVD.

In one, Lohan's credit card is denied at a sushi restaurant.  In another, she tries to flirt with an old man to get a loan in the third deleted scene, she squeezes in a mail cart to convince her friends that there is indeed a curse that switched her luck with the strange man she kissed.  It was a wise move on the part of the director to delete all three.

A lot of this movie is spent plugging the British band, McFly, and therefore an eight-minute featurette goes behind the scenes of the film's climatic scene in Times Square's Hard Rock Cafe.  This is by far the most entertaining of all the Features on the DVD.

The film itself is so corny and adorable, girls can't help but like it. It is the definition of a "teenybopper" movie, but it works so well as one that its cheesy lines and ridiculous scenerios  (Lohan is a 20-year-old working at a PR firm with her own penthouse suite in the middle of Manhattan) make for the perfect fantasy world that films strive to create.