Eva Noblezada

Simon Pegg

Jane Fonda

Whoopi Goldberg

Colin O'Donoghue

Lil Rel Howery

Flula Borg

John Ratzenberger

Adelynn Spoon

Grey DeLisle

Suzy Nakamura

Kari Wahlgren

Kwaku Fortune

Chris Edgerly

Moe Irvin

Nick Thurston

Fred Tatasciore

William J. Caparella

Fred Warter

Lourdes Marquez Alba

Álvaro Figuero

David Eisenmann

Jason Henkel

Yuriko Senoo

Javier Romero

John Debney

Ray Shenusay

Juan De Dios

Julia Michels

Javier Abad

Kiel Murray

Arnau Olle Lopez

Glenn Berger

Julián Romero

Lawrence Gong

Esdras Varagnolo

Julianne Jordan

Ernie Rinard

Rebeca Carrasco

Jonathan Aibel

Simon Rieber

Tony Villaflor

Peggy Holmes

John Lasseter

Dana Goldberg

David Ellison

Steve Slanec

Josh Gold

Kat Tsai

Animation

Adventure

Comedy

Fantasy

Luck

Skydance Animation

Skydance Animation East

Spain

United States of America

English

superstition

bad luck

leprechaun

computer animation

female protagonist

calm

Manuel São Bento

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"Luck meets the minimum requirements of having a light story with simple characters and sweet messages, but it's far from an inspiring, imaginative, incredibly entertaining work.

The humor related to the protagonist's misfortunes induces some moments of laughter, but even these are cliches repeated countless times throughout the history of cinema. Strangely, the 3D animation fails to offer expressiveness and emotion to the characters, being limited to the beautiful environment that surrounds the narrative.

The score tries to elevate the overall film with sentimental tunes and melodies, but unfortunately, it's not enough to avoid the first animated disappointment of the year."

Rating: C

The Movie Mob

**Overall : Luck feels as warm and familiar as a favorite blanket reminding us of some of our favorite Pixar movies from 25 years ago.**

A sweet movie with a sweet message. John Lasseter’s return to animation felt like a return to the Pixar stories of the 90s - hope-filled stories about finding meaningful friendships and family. Luck had moments of laughter and moments that touched your heart. It didn’t rise to the level of Toy Story or Finding Nemo, but it is definitely a good one. My three-year-old immediately wanted to start it over again when it ended, and she loved the fun creatures and bright-colored worlds. So it looks like Luck will be around the house quite a bit for the next few months.

CinemaSerf

In theory, this ought to have been much better - but somehow it just doesn't ever get going. The story centres around "Sam" who has the most damnable ill-luck. If it can go wrong for her (and those around her) then you can bet your last lucky penny then it will! Sitting, despondently, outside a café one day, she shares her sandwich with a black cat and thereafter her adventures start as she discovers this cat comes from the land of luck. Good luck, actually, reigned over benignly by the dragon (Jane Fonda). As with everything, though, it's an equilibrium and there is a fine balance to be had with bad luck - which they try to contain in a machine. Her arrival spells doom for this finely stable environment. Soon she and the cat "Bob" are having to spin plates a-plenty to stop their universe collapsing into chaos. It's far too wordy and worthy - the sentiment was all just a bit too sweet, sugary and over-whelming for me. It is a perfectly adequate production and the animation does enough, but at 1¾ it's all just to thinly stretched out and actually quite slow. It will be fine for the kids on the television at Christmas, but it's very limited cinema release speaks volumes...

Luck( 2022)

Sometimes all you need is for everything to go wrong.

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A review by Manuel São Bento

Written by Manuel São Bento on Fri Aug 12 2022

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