This movie had a lot of potential in my opinion. I was really excited when the first trailers came out, because Sam could've been relatable for the audience, it involved elements of luck in different cultures, and the visuals were stunning. But now, knowing how plain the plot and characters are, and having the director's background issue had discouraged me to even give it a try. Certainly a loss of opportunity in the animation world
I'm down for having someone with perpetual bad luck, because we all had "one of those days" where everything just goes wrong *war flashbacks* 😭 but the movie held back on all the "bad day" symptoms as if it was too scared to hurt her??? I'm just saying if I have to watch a luck-based movie I'd pick Just My Luck any day ✌ Also I didn't mention this, but the "culture" part of this movie is so bland- all they had were Leprechauns, bunnies, pigs, a unicorn, and a dragon? It's very Eurocentric even though they *explicitly* pointed out different cultures' lucky items in the very beginning of the movie???
@@CarrieTooTired Well that's even more frustrating! 😤 And you're right, what unlucky can be getting a new job where your boss doesn't even fire you and he's being nice to you? Make him a j*rk at least! I mean, Maguire's Peter Parker is a better example of the person with bad luck! He's an orphan, J.J. Jameson treated him badly, his crush is always replacing him with better potential boyfriends, he lost his uncle, had a department he can barely pay, his best friend becomes a lunatic and then dies!
@@analivehorses yes 👏 the audience may not have a 1 to 1 relatability to Peter, but we feel so much for him! And seeing him overcome these obstacles when the odds are so against him not only makes him a good role model, but someone you want to root for and see succeed 😤 Every “bad luck” thing the movie wants you to think Sam has gets cancelled out immediately: her first day was hectic but she wasn’t late or fired, she doesn’t have a seat to eat her dinner but the street was empty so eating on the curb wasn’t a big deal, even when Hazel’s appointment got cancelled she was immediately scheduled a new one??? Sam literally destroyed the luck world Bob tells her she’s pure good and unselfish like 🙃 no?????
And they could’ve made the lesson something like “You can’t have good luck without bad luck because your good luck might be a different persons bad luck” like if someone is a bad person, like they did crimes, their good luck would be never getting caught, while that would be a different persons bad luck, a vice versa, the lesson is so easy if they just tried a bit more
I was disappointed to see that Sam didn't adopt the little girl herself or went back to the world as it was still filled with bad luck and used her skills to overcome the challenges of not being lucky. The vague message of "you need some bad in your life, not only good luck" is quite shallow when you don't actually explore the serious challenges that brings and don't show people that you can make it in life even if luck is not on your side. Edit: Oh, I even forgot I left this comment but I'm glad I saw it again. You guys are right that an 18 yo adopting someone else is not a good idea or realistic at all, my only counterpoints to that being 1. Sam being freshly turned 18 was a choice on the writers' part, she could have been slightly older and most of the story would have worked exactly the same, minimal adjustments needed and 2. This is a cartoon, I've seen crazier things happen in cartoon than a miracle adoption. But thanks for pointing out the flaws in my comment, you're right, I didn't completely think it through. I was probably focused on the lack of a narrative pay off to what was set up and the emotional stakes, and forgot about the factual traits of the characters. That being said, I still think there were definitely things that could have been changed on a second draft of this script to have a more impactful last third of the movie, slightly changing those traits being one of the options.
She was supposed to be barely 18?? I thought she was like, late 20s at best!!! I saw a lot of portions of this movie as facebook reels with no continuity.
I’m so sick of these kind of models, we had to use these all the time for animation classes and it was so dull Like holy shit I know that there’s a sort of look for disney movies but damn their 2D movies can be told apart very easily while the modeling with the 3D is a bit of the same flavor and most 3D movies/series just seem to try and copy that style and call it a day…
@@Powered1Buttercup fr character designs are important you would rather prefer having a known character and design even knowing by their silhouette thats what disney did with their 2d animated films you want a unique character design and one that stands out and doesnt just be called a "pixar and disney movies now humans"
The growing out of the orphanage is something that the social workers have to do. They can't just let her out into the world without help, so they tell her that in order to keep her fully furnished apartment, she has to work and/or stay in school. That's not luck; that's the bare minimum because she has no one else to help her.
she said it was luck because with absolutely no effort she got a job and enrolled in a university within minutes of moving out. that is NOT how things work and you'd be extremely lucky to get either without having any qualifications and without putting in effort, let alone someone with "bad luck" getting those things straight out of the orphanage.
Two movies with four-letter titles written by people with J.L. Initials and boring protagonists played by actresses with high levels of acting and musical talent. 💀
Ngl, if you want a fun main character whose gimmick is having very bad luck, Milo from Milo Murphy's Law is one good example of that. What I like about him in comparison to Sam is that he simply got used to his awful luck, and because of that he comes up with really fun solutions while the scenarios themselves are getting wackier by the minute.
His optimistic attitude (since like you said, he was already used to his problem) is a unique approach to the unlucky character trope. Despite everything, he knows there's always a way to turn things around and overcome the issue. It kinda gives hope to the viewer.
@@sketchycat6223 I remember hearing it was bad and not as good as Phineas and Ferb when it first came out, so I kinda just forgot about it, too. But now I'm thinking maybe it's not half bad, and I kinda want to watch it now lol
heres a better reason for why there has to be a balance of good and bad luck: without suffering there can be no joy. the human mind is conditional and adaptive, and if it adjusts to just constant joy, it all becomes numb and boring. movie probably didnt think about this so its still bad lol
The concept of bad luck| good luck was done better in Just my luck! I was sad for the guy, played by Chris pine (He was great in the movie, same in Rise of the guardians!) He was helping a rock group being successful and gave a better life to his sister. He's so kind! The lucky girl too and it was nice seeing her strugle with bad luck, she did her best to survive despite her problems (Her appartment was floded, she almost DIES because a hairdryer explode, she was send to jail etc.) The romance was well done! Both characters spend time to know each other, it was cute 🥰
Funny you mentioned that, bc my original script had a whole side tangent about how that movie handled a luck-driven plot better 😂 but yes it’s a very cute movie!!
The movie IS Mid but I’ve seen it twice which is more than some newer Disney films. It’s so all over the place! It hinges on AI prompt that was just barely smoothed out by a human. Also “Sam and Cat” got me lol
I think the writers just never knew how it is to be poor. They just didn't even consider Sam not being able to get a job or not finding a good home. You can see the same in many other movies. Also Wolfwalkers is absolutely amazing, and it's an Irish film (which is where I'm from)
@@nintendoboy3605 Well, because luck in and of itself does not carry a narrative. Hence why they had to stretch out the concept to try and make sense of it
Yeah there was a show with a similar concept called Milo Murphy's Law, which is great go watch it, and the first few episodes before they start focusing on other stuff and it's just "what can go wrong will go wrong" were honestly kind of samey and boring
3:42 This is a stupid thing to fixate on, but why does this kid have a Dala horse in her collection? I've never heard that they're supposed to be lucky-- the stories I heard growing up were mostly about how they magically grew in the night and took kids on an adventure. Usually they have to escape trolls which try to grab the horse by the tail, but it's just painted on so the horse and kid escape. It's magic (for kids, grown-ups just think they look neat) but it's not lucky.
"Usually they have to escape trolls which try to grab the horse by the tail, but it's just painted on so the horse and kid escape" That's such a cute idea oh my god
A very meh movie. I only watched it because an actor I liked played in it, and I still had low expectations that of course weren't surpassed. It didn't feel like it brought anything new or original, the characters' expressions were mediocre even though the voice actors did a great job with what they were given, and the ending just felt so patronizing to me. Watching it after two years of a pandemic and being told "We need bad luck because it teaches us things" made me wanna barf. Mediocrity and surface level at their finest.
@@CarrieTooTired. The only things appealing in this movie from a visual sense are Sam and babe. Former for the junk in her trunk, latter for everything else! ;)
I have a dark theory on why Sam's bland nature, she has a cynical view in life because she is an alternative version of Meg from Family Guy. Meg had enough that she run away or been confiscated but her bad experience from Griffin cause her to be cynical that became unlucky Sam
No one really talks about it but I really hate the dance they do. They really tried to make a new trendy dance for the kids to do but it’s failed miserably.
I liked Luck when I saw the trailer ‘cause I was like, “omg! A black cat that usually represents bad luck represents good luck in this movie!” I love cats so this made me happy. I was also hoping for this to be similar to the show Milo Murphy, but it wasn’t.
They could have had a subplot about how one person's good luck is a other person's bad luck. And them the ending of good and bad luck would make sense. Because trying to always have good luck would break everything as it isn't even possible.
I feel like this movie could have had a lot of good potential, I think it was a shoe-in for a good moral lesson, like something along the lines that sometimes you have bad luck but that's okay blah blah blah life keeps going on and you have to work with it sort of thing... *But we didn't get that-* I have to say though my hopes were not high for this movie when I saw the poster, and I know this sounds weird, but I'm telling you, when the poster looks boring, or bad, or feels like something is missing, then the movie *might* not be very good.
The movie was leaning so hard into the “You can still have family, friends, and a good life even with bad luck- because you’re in charge of your life at the end of the day” but they chickened out for some reason 🙃 Posters are such a hit or miss when it comes to animated movies- Megamind slaps but man does it have bad posters 🙈 but yes bland posters are a red flag fr
They could have done like an inside out kind of scene where she reminisces on times when she had really bad luck and was sad and was comforted by her friends and how it made their relationships stronger or something. Like when Riley fumbled the hockey match and her friends and family came to comfort her and brought some joy out of the sadness. Another angle could have been her being super pessimistic and annoyed but gaining skills in being resourceful because of her bad luck and then pairing her with a character who only had good luck but has become incompetent in difficult situations because they’ve never had to adapt or overcome anything. The message could have been that through hard work and struggle comes innovation, or that learning and growing comes through failure and hard work. Or it could have been about how good and bad luck are all about perspective and there could have been a scene where she was talking with the little girl and said something along the lines of “all my life I thought I was unlucky, but really I’m very lucky because everything that’s happened to me led to me meeting you and I wouldn’t change it for the world” or something. Bam three luck based messages that you can actually wrote a story around
The vibe I got from the teaser trailer was that this was gonna be a grounded movie about someone getting luck powers, but this? This is just every other down-the-rabbit hole adventure, only with clashing aesthetics and the absolute vaguest magic system.
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Worst thing is that they could've broken the stereotype of "black cats are bad luck" by having a black cat that is good luck, only to pull the rug and say "actually, black cats *are* bad luck". As someone who owns a black cat, I can tell you that she is actually really lucky, she was found in a ditch in the middle of Canadian winter by my dad's friend, the only effects of that being a bit of frost bite at the tip of her tail causing it to be a little shorter, she has a decent sized house to live in with not only good windows to look out, but a big back yard for her to explore (on a harness), plus she's constantly given all the attention she wants. Black cats are one of the best type of cats and are anything but bad luck. Sorry for the rant :(
I love black cats and always wanted one, never really believed in that superstition personally but I also really thought the movie was gonna do something w/ it
@@MikiAnne29 honestly if you want a good story about a black cat thats actually good luck read fortune falls by Jenny Goebel. It handles the theme of "luck" much better. At the end of the story the protagonist realizes that luck is just about perspective and how you handle situations tossed your way. Yes there is actual magical "luck" elements involved but I think its handled well for the most part. The black cat she hated because she associated them with bad luck was actually good luck that was helping her out throughout the book. But in the ending she doesn't use the cat for good luck because she wants to be able to achieve something through efforts alone and she succeeds despite the mishaps. Its been a while since I read the book so it may not be as great as I remember but I do like how it broke that big stereotype about black cats
One thing I don't like about shamrocks and leprechauns as luck symbols is that "The luck of the Irish" was used to discredit all of the achievements of Irish folks in the United States.
Getting cancer is unlucky, so she could have cured cancer but nooo having balance is apparently important. There also wasn’t a single example that having too much luck is bad. Granted, they also didn’t show any harmful bad luck but that certainly exists in the real world.
8:20 They REALLY tried to make a Pixar knockoff but they couldn't even hide the animation studio number well (or even at all). That alone perfectly encapsulates what this movie is.
When you brought up the lipstick fix to the bike pump it gave me a glimpse of a movie in which after years of continual bad luck, Sam developped a McGiver-esque ability to salavage and remedy situations on the fly. To the point people are taken aback. "Why is she carrying X? What for?" Then a bad luck incident happens, and X happens to be exactly what she needs to quickly recover. And her coworkers go "Huh? But how could she have known?" Sam would always have a plan. Cue plot when something she couldn't plan for and can't recover from kicks her out of her comfort zone.
I'll say what I said on another review of luck: the 2009 Garfield show had a better luck episode, and they should've went with that. Here's a quick rewrite of the plot. It's a bit cliché, but at least it has a purpose: 1) Sam suffers from persistent, *actual* bad luck. She's understandably glum about it, it's been going on "forever". 2) Sam somehow meets a luck managing staff, goes to luckworld, yadda yadda... acquires a lucky charm. Probably upsetting the balance of luck (but she don't know that!). 3) With the charm in hand and ludicrously positive luck, her life turns around for the best! 4a) However, the lucky charm seem to work by siphoning the luck of others around Sam (up to the luck of everyone else in the world), because now they have terribly bad luck. 4b) Bad people start to get suspicious of Sam and want her luck/gains. 5) Sam realizes can't keep skewing luck to her favor, for her sake and that of her friends. She learns she has to endure through bad luck and enjoy good luck when it happens. The best one can do in situations out of their control is to stay optimistic and instead focus on what they can do. 6) Sam returns the lucky charm. Her luck turns bad again, but her friends' luck turns better again. 7) Despite bad luck making her lose her previous gains, she stays hopeful that things will get better and she's happy her friends are happy. Maybe she get a little good luck, as a treat.
You know what this reminds me of? A Dhar Mann (or whatever his name was) ripoff video where the kid wants a vr headset. His mom finds a drinking water competition with a vr headset as a prize (which ALREADY doesn't make sense) and wins. After that, she goes to sleep and dies because she drank too much water. After that the police give the little boy a vr headset with a lot of accessories but he's still mourning the death of his mother. I still fail to find the moral of that story to this day.
I think the moral lesson that Sam took is that without bad things happening unpredictably we would be denying ourselves for meeting and dealing with unexpected things in life. Like meeting new people or getting back together with another person
i hate when animation doesn't animate the cat to be more cat like. especially with the tail its like just smth taped to them. but then again the humans barely act like humans here too
I don't understand why everyone Why everyone wanted her to adopt the child? She was literally just 18 and barely had the financial situation to probably sit there and support herself. That's why she couldn't adopt the kid. But other than that, that, it was yeah, pretty much a trash movie.
5:00 Context: A lucky penny isn't just some ordinary penny you picked out, it's a penny that chose you. The conditions have to be just right to receive a lucky penny; A. You need to be in an unfamiliar space, this is because of B. You need to happen across a random penny, if you're a superstite then you're more likely to have more superstites around you, reducing the chance of the penny being random. C. It needs to be Tails facing up. Further reducing the chances of you happening across a lucky penny by an extra 50%. 14:25 she never struggled and didn't learn a lesson, why are we following her again? Because we needed a stand in.
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14:42 THAT’S WHAT I WAS BUGGED ABOUT THE MOST WITH THIS MOVIE!! I really wanted the message to be that Sam and/or Hazel didn’t need to be adopted by other randoz to be a family cause family or luck/being lucky don’t have to be what the standard is but instead they just had Hazel get what she originally wanted which was a standard family and she still got to see Sam often, while Sam just lives pretty much the same as she did before so all the “character progression” ultimately doesn’t even matter as much after this point 😅
"Why is the dragon dressed like a flight attendant?" See, my only theory would be because dragons can fly. But she has no wings. So....lol. One thing that really got me about the animation is aside from the bad acting, their eyes just....weren't emotive enough? They all looked dead inside--except for Bob, somehow. It's like...the top of their eyes move, but not the bottoms enough? Eh. You put it well--it's stiff.
the character designs are so... forgettable, too. i like how the dragon looks i guess, but i just really like dragons, its hard to mess up a dragon (though still possible). also the humans eyes look WEIRD and i dont actually know why, but they do.
When the little girl said, "You sure have bad luck, Sam Greenfield." I completely gave up on this movie being anything better than passable because who talks like that?
12:51 context (this is a class at the end of the year.) At around this scene where they are sitting at the edge a character just kinda dissapeared and someone asked what happend to him and someone said "he jumped" "Nah thats crazy" 💀
Just a half an hour ago I saw some art of some character I'd never seen before, then I got recommended this video and while watching it I noticed that the dragon looked vaguely familiar, so I checked and sure enough it was the same character! Man, what are the chances?
the acting issue has got to be a directorial issue because Eva Noblezada (who plays Sam) is an insanely talented actress who has originated multiple roles on Broadway. Either that or they only did one take for each delivery
there are so many movies and shows that explore the concept of luck. Milo Murphy's law highlights his optimism and resourcefulness. whereas the nick movie jinxed explores the draining side of bad luck. the characters have rules center around situations they've experienced. There's ways characters work around bad luck! and if they really wanted Sam to be constantly unlucky then they could explore the idea that her trying to fix/prevent bad luck makes the situations worse.
I remember when my sister and I watched this, and we're both fans of side-plot romance in films and games, so we thought Sam and Jerry were going to be like, you know, a thing. He seemed into her at first, but then it just disappeared later on. I think we were more upset about that than anything else 😅
dude it would have been so much better if sam eventually learned to "baby proof" her house in a way. barriers everywhere, better window locks, pairing up her socks, fixing things that have even a CHANCE of breaking later ect. also my biggest nit-pick is how the insanely lucky penny, itself, isnt lucky at all. in the most unlucky Goldberg effect way, it fell into an automatic movement sensing toilet. im not even a critic and i noticed that on my FIRST WATCH (and only watch) without youtubers
Yeah, like make it so she loses it trying to see just how lucky it makes her or something like how she repeatedly tested the bread or something, something that the literal only way it could turn out is her losing it
As someone who has never seen this movie, I have some good things to say about it - The ginger leprechaun looks cute. Some of the other character designs look cute too. - The dragon has a a nice design (but she low-key reminds of the dragon from Shrek). - And Bob the cat seems like a cool guy. It's a little disappointing to see this movie didn't perform well (based on Carrie's reaction and general reviews). Luck seems like it had a lot of potential. It would be nice to see a movie that isn't pre-existing IP, like a reboot or spin-off, succeed on streaming or in the box office.
Babe the dragon is probably the only element in this whole movie that I genuinely find interesting and keeps it from being totally forgettable. Her design is lovely and her voice and mannerisms give off a nice motherly yet authoritative vibe, plus I like the gag of her using a fire extinguisher like an inhaler. She's too good for this film honestly.
I watched this film with my Dad when it was released on Apple TV because we wanted to see how it compared to Pixar’s older films since Lasseter was involved and we both hated it. He told me that the plot reminded him of a Rankin/Bass movie because there were too many characters, the plot had so many unnecessary and complex turns and such, and it felt so long despite only an hour and forty minute-long duration. Also, the TikTok dancing at the beginning was the hardest I’ve cringed at a movie in years.
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So if someone passes by and witnesses a thief about to break into a home therefore stopping the thief from breaking into the home, what would clogging the bad luck do? Seeing the thief is bad luck for the thief but good luck for the home owner. Not seeing the thief is good for the thief, bad for the home owner. I don't think it is possible for either forms of luck to disappear from the world. One person's bad luck can be another person's good luck.
Skydance Animation's output after the admittedly good short film Blush is why I got worried when Skydance was announced to merge with Paramount, which also houses Nickelodeon. Paramount and Nickelodeon have a very loose way of producing animated movies, and similar to Sony, the styles of their movies show variety like the TMNT and Transformers movies recently. Skydance on the other hand, is more content with sticking to the Pixar/Disney style, not just in terms of animation, but also storytelling. This could hold them back and give them the reputation of being the low-rent version of Pixar and Disney that happens to have the former leader of those two companies running it. Right now, Lasseter is planning to stick with Skydance since they have a deal with Netflix starting with this year's Spellbound, and he will not be running Paramount or Nickelodeon Animation.
For a movie about luck, the luck universe is incredibly boring, you could have done so much with the concept of good and bad luck in different cultures, I know that they showed a few animals and objects of good luck (like rabbits, dragons, four leaf clovers, ect) but they get repetitive very quickly, plus the environment is just so bland, it’s trying to hard to give a modernised monsters inc kinda vibe. Also the moral is just non existent, there’s not even a “be grateful for what you have” or “there can’t be good luck with out bad luck” so you just feel like you’ve waisted your time Also fun fact that I just learnt! Leprechauns aren’t symbols of good luck, they’re symbols of wealth and hard work(but it’s considered lucky if you see one)
Some interesting developments behind why this film turned out the way it did. Skydance Animation originally began as a pretty small studio contracting all their work out with a small creative team. Their first mini-film they released "Blush" was very well received and a simple yet beautiful piece of animation. At the same time they were developing Luck. A film that was undergoing an incredibly tumultuous production with many fingers being pointed at the original director. John Lasseter joined Skydance midway through the production of the film, and with him came a MASSIVE shift in studio vision and studio size, basically overnight needing the infrastructure to support a rapidly growing Hollywood level animation studio while simultaneously dealing with a turd film well under production. There were problems with the film and it's original director was fired due to "creative differences" which I interpret as Hollywood for "He was making a turd film and not listening to any internal feedback" only a year out from the films release. With the director replaced and a looming deadline only a year out whatever they could scrap together and fix from what was already a pretty unfixable film at that point was thrown out and John Lasseter's name got attached to it. Unfairly attached to the film, perhaps, but that's Hollywood. And that's not to say John can't make bad films, he already has. Luck, however, was certainly a hurricane heading for shore that an entire studio got plopped into the path of, and the best they could do was point a bunch of fans out to sea like a bunch of crazy Floridians trying to stop it from making it to shore. I'm holding out hope that their upcoming series WondLa and film Spellbound turn things around for Skydance and proves that they put out the kind of quality people are accustomed to from Pixar and DreamWorks. If you haven't heard of those projects yet, I'd give them a look when they come out later this year. I'd be interested in your thoughts and if things turn out better or worse. It would be nice to see a new studio come along to try and tackle the beasts of Pixar, Dreamworks, and Illumination. We already lost Blue Sky sadly so I think it's time for something new.
I don't think that firing a director for creative differences means that the movie was a turd. Lasseter just has a very specific idea of what makes an animated movie good. Remember that he fired Chris Sanders (who brought us Lilo & Stitch AKA the only 2000s Disney film pre-Lasseter that was a critical and financial hit upon release) from American Dog because he found the movie too weird for Disney, and Lasseter was already not a fan of Lilo & Stitch. Sanders would later join DreamWorks, directing How to Train Your Dragon, The Croods, and The Wild Robot. Luck was also an entirely different movie before Lasseter joined. It was going to be more heist and war-themed when showing the worlds of good luck and bad luck, but it was expensively reworked into something resembling Pixar movies like Inside Out and Monsters Inc. It's possible the original concept could have been more interesting than the final movie we got.
I love how AI bros make generative machine learning "movies" so bad that "uninspired Pixar ripoff" somehow looks even more soulless to me now Edit: I'm gonna go watch Milo Murphy's Law
I think one aspect that people don’t mention enough is the boring environment already throws off the entire thing. Most scenes focus on the bare necessities that it should be comprised of. I.e, the home at the start of the movie lacks character like the children are just propped in there to act; it doesn’t look lived in. It’s a theme throughout the whole movie so it feels more like watching a low budget kids series with animations and character detail dialed up. The director clearly didn’t invest enough time into letting the environment contribute to the story. All characters wear bland clothes with no personality, the buildings are uniformly clean- the human aspect is washed away.
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Huh, I didn't know the movie even had a factory-like setting to explain what creates all the luck in the world. It does come off as Pixar-esque, considering they made Monsters Inc. and Inside Out. Even then, those two movies established their setting in the opening minutes, and several functions are shown rather than told if they're not critical to the story (Screams=Power and the importance of memories, respectively, are outright told to the audience, but not a lot else is). In Luck's case, it seems they wanted to do a similar setting, but only explored it partway through the film, and even looking at the clips you showed I don't know what purpose any of the offices or machinery serve (unless it was in exposition you skipped). Like any bad rip-off, it took similar imagery but missed the point of why it was there in the first place.
The idea was neat, as proven by countless other "Bad luck" characters like Inspector Gadget, Milo Murphy even that guy from the Naked Gun movies. The world of Luck had a neat history and set up, and they did nothing really with it. I still annoyed how quickly they went over the bad luck world, as if they were doing a speed run of a game. Seriously a major part of the story was how bad the MC's luck always was. Be nice if we found out a reason, like some one in the bad luck world hated her, the machine was broke or something.
The trailer I saw for Luck looked promising to a small degree for me. When I saw the movie, the only thing I could see in my head when I heard "luck" was the purple and green glitter flying everywhere. It would have been cool to see Sam use her bad luck to fix good luck, but that never happened. I was also hoping that the cat would play the part of a good luck guide. Not an actual guide. And when she dressed up as an elf... just... how did no one realize she was human when they send agents to the HUMAN world. Why do they send them?? No idea. That could've played a part, but it never did. It was just "oh yeah, that's a thing. Moving on." There could have been much more done.
Sam needs to hit that sub button to get infinite luck
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@@CarrieTooTired epic 😎
alright, do I get infinite luck now
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One extra thing if the opening scene hasn't already been shot to death enough, but the little girl decided to bring a green hat to a green screen...
haha I never registered that??? it's okay that magic app will take care of it-
if only they knew there can be a "green screen" of different color...
Blue screens:
@@Kyumifun MIMIKYU SPOTTED.
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5:56 I love that they’re even ankle socks, which are so hidden by most shoes that they don’t even _need_ to match. xD
right! at least give them obviously different textures and lengths
They're so small i feel like they won't even fit on her.
The real bad luck was her being too poor to buy new socks.
Most of my socks are ankle socks so ji think its pointless to find its twin XD
I don't think they need to match regardless, nobody is judging you because you're wearing mismatched socks, they probably haven't even noticed
This movie had a lot of potential in my opinion. I was really excited when the first trailers came out, because Sam could've been relatable for the audience, it involved elements of luck in different cultures, and the visuals were stunning. But now, knowing how plain the plot and characters are, and having the director's background issue had discouraged me to even give it a try. Certainly a loss of opportunity in the animation world
I'm down for having someone with perpetual bad luck, because we all had "one of those days" where everything just goes wrong *war flashbacks* 😭 but the movie held back on all the "bad day" symptoms as if it was too scared to hurt her??? I'm just saying if I have to watch a luck-based movie I'd pick Just My Luck any day ✌
Also I didn't mention this, but the "culture" part of this movie is so bland- all they had were Leprechauns, bunnies, pigs, a unicorn, and a dragon? It's very Eurocentric even though they *explicitly* pointed out different cultures' lucky items in the very beginning of the movie???
@@CarrieTooTired Well that's even more frustrating! 😤 And you're right, what unlucky can be getting a new job where your boss doesn't even fire you and he's being nice to you? Make him a j*rk at least! I mean, Maguire's Peter Parker is a better example of the person with bad luck! He's an orphan, J.J. Jameson treated him badly, his crush is always replacing him with better potential boyfriends, he lost his uncle, had a department he can barely pay, his best friend becomes a lunatic and then dies!
@@analivehorses yes 👏 the audience may not have a 1 to 1 relatability to Peter, but we feel so much for him! And seeing him overcome these obstacles when the odds are so against him not only makes him a good role model, but someone you want to root for and see succeed 😤
Every “bad luck” thing the movie wants you to think Sam has gets cancelled out immediately: her first day was hectic but she wasn’t late or fired, she doesn’t have a seat to eat her dinner but the street was empty so eating on the curb wasn’t a big deal, even when Hazel’s appointment got cancelled she was immediately scheduled a new one??? Sam literally destroyed the luck world Bob tells her she’s pure good and unselfish like 🙃 no?????
I was so excited when it came out too, but look where that got us! Just another Wish.
And they could’ve made the lesson something like “You can’t have good luck without bad luck because your good luck might be a different persons bad luck” like if someone is a bad person, like they did crimes, their good luck would be never getting caught, while that would be a different persons bad luck, a vice versa, the lesson is so easy if they just tried a bit more
I was disappointed to see that Sam didn't adopt the little girl herself or went back to the world as it was still filled with bad luck and used her skills to overcome the challenges of not being lucky. The vague message of "you need some bad in your life, not only good luck" is quite shallow when you don't actually explore the serious challenges that brings and don't show people that you can make it in life even if luck is not on your side.
Edit: Oh, I even forgot I left this comment but I'm glad I saw it again. You guys are right that an 18 yo adopting someone else is not a good idea or realistic at all, my only counterpoints to that being 1. Sam being freshly turned 18 was a choice on the writers' part, she could have been slightly older and most of the story would have worked exactly the same, minimal adjustments needed and 2. This is a cartoon, I've seen crazier things happen in cartoon than a miracle adoption. But thanks for pointing out the flaws in my comment, you're right, I didn't completely think it through. I was probably focused on the lack of a narrative pay off to what was set up and the emotional stakes, and forgot about the factual traits of the characters. That being said, I still think there were definitely things that could have been changed on a second draft of this script to have a more impactful last third of the movie, slightly changing those traits being one of the options.
She just got kicked from the orphanage I don't think that's the best idea? Lol
Dude she was 18
@@thefungiwhisperer2313 an 18 year old can still adopt. Then again she's in her right mind not to pick her up herself. 😭
I get your point but maybe it should’ve been done differently since it doesn’t make sense for to be capable of adopting the little girl.
she didn't? guys the timelines are merging
She was supposed to be barely 18?? I thought she was like, late 20s at best!!! I saw a lot of portions of this movie as facebook reels with no continuity.
honestly that sounds like a more interesting way to watch this movie 👀
@@CarrieTooTired naaaahhhh💀
@@rocketman437 my guy, if you so down bad, at least don't show it in public like that..
@@typicaluser697 I was just being funny
oh no....
IM GETTING EMOJI MOVIE HUMAN VIBES
THE WAY THE HUMANS LOOK
I haven't seen the emoji movie since it came out so I'll take your word for it 🫡
@@CarrieTooTired. Sam's junk in the trunk would be too good for that!
@@CarrieTooTiredyou should watch it 😈😈😈
I’m so sick of these kind of models, we had to use these all the time for animation classes and it was so dull
Like holy shit I know that there’s a sort of look for disney movies but damn their 2D movies can be told apart very easily while the modeling with the 3D is a bit of the same flavor and most 3D movies/series just seem to try and copy that style and call it a day…
@@Powered1Buttercup fr character designs are important you would rather prefer having a known character and design even knowing by their silhouette thats what disney did with their 2d animated films
you want a unique character design and one that stands out and doesnt just be called a "pixar and disney movies now humans"
And to think my family decided to watch this movie instead of a ghibli movie
Ghibili movies are the best
L family
NOOOOO :c
oh NOOOOO!!!!! that must have been AGONY! I'm so sorry! I choose Ghibli almost every single time!!
@@mineral66 except for that one atrocity
The growing out of the orphanage is something that the social workers have to do. They can't just let her out into the world without help, so they tell her that in order to keep her fully furnished apartment, she has to work and/or stay in school. That's not luck; that's the bare minimum because she has no one else to help her.
she said it was luck because with absolutely no effort she got a job and enrolled in a university within minutes of moving out. that is NOT how things work and you'd be extremely lucky to get either without having any qualifications and without putting in effort, let alone someone with "bad luck" getting those things straight out of the orphanage.
Luck is just the apple version of wish and that is not a good thing.
Yes
Luck was made before wish actually
Two movies with four-letter titles written by people with J.L. Initials and boring protagonists played by actresses with high levels of acting and musical talent. 💀
@@karathewolfsfanficchannel933 lmfao
they bought wish from wish
Ngl, if you want a fun main character whose gimmick is having very bad luck, Milo from Milo Murphy's Law is one good example of that. What I like about him in comparison to Sam is that he simply got used to his awful luck, and because of that he comes up with really fun solutions while the scenarios themselves are getting wackier by the minute.
His optimistic attitude (since like you said, he was already used to his problem) is a unique approach to the unlucky character trope.
Despite everything, he knows there's always a way to turn things around and overcome the issue.
It kinda gives hope to the viewer.
Yes!!! I love that show. & how the comedy usually comes from how others react to Murphy’s law, not just Milo
Huh, I thought that show was lost to the sands of time
@@sketchycat6223 I remember hearing it was bad and not as good as Phineas and Ferb when it first came out, so I kinda just forgot about it, too. But now I'm thinking maybe it's not half bad, and I kinda want to watch it now lol
It’s not AS good as Phineas and Ferb, but it’s close
Luck had latvia mentioned, immediately +1 point
AYYYYYYYY
Wish it was mentioned in a better movie, we can't have our nation be associated with this 😢
@@OneAndOnlyFran well, gotta make use of what we have i suppose
hell yeaa
Hell yea my country atleast gets mentioned somewhere!
Milo Murphy's law is a nice little series centered around a similar ”someone with very bad luck” idea. I liked it.
I love that show!
heres a better reason for why there has to be a balance of good and bad luck:
without suffering there can be no joy. the human mind is conditional and adaptive, and if it adjusts to just constant joy, it all becomes numb and boring.
movie probably didnt think about this so its still bad lol
The concept of bad luck| good luck was done better in Just my luck! I was sad for the guy, played by Chris pine (He was great in the movie, same in Rise of the guardians!) He was helping a rock group being successful and gave a better life to his sister. He's so kind! The lucky girl too and it was nice seeing her strugle with bad luck, she did her best to survive despite her problems (Her appartment was floded, she almost DIES because a hairdryer explode, she was send to jail etc.) The romance was well done! Both characters spend time to know each other, it was cute 🥰
Funny you mentioned that, bc my original script had a whole side tangent about how that movie handled a luck-driven plot better 😂 but yes it’s a very cute movie!!
@@CarrieTooTired. Elaborate, on this please.
The movie IS Mid but I’ve seen it twice which is more than some newer Disney films. It’s so all over the place! It hinges on AI prompt that was just barely smoothed out by a human.
Also “Sam and Cat” got me lol
Yea I watched it in 2nd grade and still do to this day( 5-6 grade)
I think the writers just never knew how it is to be poor. They just didn't even consider Sam not being able to get a job or not finding a good home. You can see the same in many other movies. Also Wolfwalkers is absolutely amazing, and it's an Irish film (which is where I'm from)
Making a movie about luck was their first mistake
Probably not their first
@@beetole_ I like the way you're thinking lol
Can you explain why?
@@nintendoboy3605 Well, because luck in and of itself does not carry a narrative. Hence why they had to stretch out the concept to try and make sense of it
Yeah there was a show with a similar concept called Milo Murphy's Law, which is great go watch it, and the first few episodes before they start focusing on other stuff and it's just "what can go wrong will go wrong" were honestly kind of samey and boring
carrie: "jerry the leprechaun, babe the dragon and jeff the-"
me: "killer?"
carrie: "unicorn"
*war flashbacks*
3:42 This is a stupid thing to fixate on, but why does this kid have a Dala horse in her collection? I've never heard that they're supposed to be lucky-- the stories I heard growing up were mostly about how they magically grew in the night and took kids on an adventure. Usually they have to escape trolls which try to grab the horse by the tail, but it's just painted on so the horse and kid escape. It's magic (for kids, grown-ups just think they look neat) but it's not lucky.
I’ve been saying “DALA HORSE, FROM SWEEDEN” for almost 2 years now and it’s not even a lucky item???
Makes about as much sense as half the charms in Lucky Charms cereal so I guess I'm desensitized to a confusingly broad definition of "lucky"
"Usually they have to escape trolls which try to grab the horse by the tail, but it's just painted on so the horse and kid escape"
That's such a cute idea oh my god
@@CarrieTooTiredit’s pretty.
A very meh movie. I only watched it because an actor I liked played in it, and I still had low expectations that of course weren't surpassed. It didn't feel like it brought anything new or original, the characters' expressions were mediocre even though the voice actors did a great job with what they were given, and the ending just felt so patronizing to me. Watching it after two years of a pandemic and being told "We need bad luck because it teaches us things" made me wanna barf. Mediocrity and surface level at their finest.
yeah the movie is generic to a fault 🙃 plus the message feels like it’s made for 5 and under
@@CarrieTooTired. The only things appealing in this movie from a visual sense are Sam and babe. Former for the junk in her trunk, latter for everything else! ;)
Yea, eventually when bad luck eats good luck it becomes a problem.. that’s a thing most KIDS would know, right?
I have a dark theory on why Sam's bland nature, she has a cynical view in life because she is an alternative version of Meg from Family Guy. Meg had enough that she run away or been confiscated but her bad experience from Griffin cause her to be cynical that became unlucky Sam
I mean...that's a good ending for Meg
@@Air_Serpent BEST MEG ENDING EVER
Sam is Meg's nobody
This is actually cannon, this theory was confirmed on the official artbook! They deleted the transformation animation sadly
No one really talks about it but I really hate the dance they do. They really tried to make a new trendy dance for the kids to do but it’s failed miserably.
I liked Luck when I saw the trailer ‘cause I was like, “omg! A black cat that usually represents bad luck represents good luck in this movie!” I love cats so this made me happy. I was also hoping for this to be similar to the show Milo Murphy, but it wasn’t.
I saw your thumbnail and instantly assumed I had missed a Disney movie or something, only to realize that's impossible.
This story would go hard as a 2 minute no speech short tbh
They could have had a subplot about how one person's good luck is a other person's bad luck. And them the ending of good and bad luck would make sense. Because trying to always have good luck would break everything as it isn't even possible.
I feel like this movie could have had a lot of good potential, I think it was a shoe-in for a good moral lesson, like something along the lines that sometimes you have bad luck but that's okay blah blah blah life keeps going on and you have to work with it sort of thing... *But we didn't get that-*
I have to say though my hopes were not high for this movie when I saw the poster, and I know this sounds weird, but I'm telling you, when the poster looks boring, or bad, or feels like something is missing, then the movie *might* not be very good.
The movie was leaning so hard into the “You can still have family, friends, and a good life even with bad luck- because you’re in charge of your life at the end of the day” but they chickened out for some reason 🙃
Posters are such a hit or miss when it comes to animated movies- Megamind slaps but man does it have bad posters 🙈 but yes bland posters are a red flag fr
the style reminds me of the Jehovah's witness cartoons.
Oh no...I haven't watched or know much about them, but I bet they are really bad.
@@partyanimal9382 I think their LGBT ones are the worst out of all of them if your curious but don't want to hunt.
@@partyanimal9382 Their animation is pretty good... The morals and story are, ahem, interesting.
@@kirin1230 And not good
@@kirin1230 Me after i eat a cupcake 😭😭
They could have done like an inside out kind of scene where she reminisces on times when she had really bad luck and was sad and was comforted by her friends and how it made their relationships stronger or something. Like when Riley fumbled the hockey match and her friends and family came to comfort her and brought some joy out of the sadness.
Another angle could have been her being super pessimistic and annoyed but gaining skills in being resourceful because of her bad luck and then pairing her with a character who only had good luck but has become incompetent in difficult situations because they’ve never had to adapt or overcome anything. The message could have been that through hard work and struggle comes innovation, or that learning and growing comes through failure and hard work.
Or it could have been about how good and bad luck are all about perspective and there could have been a scene where she was talking with the little girl and said something along the lines of “all my life I thought I was unlucky, but really I’m very lucky because everything that’s happened to me led to me meeting you and I wouldn’t change it for the world” or something.
Bam three luck based messages that you can actually wrote a story around
The vibe I got from the teaser trailer was that this was gonna be a grounded movie about someone getting luck powers, but this? This is just every other down-the-rabbit hole adventure, only with clashing aesthetics and the absolute vaguest magic system.
"we're still on our way to 1k"?! Dude i just watched 4 of your videos back to back, what do you mean your channel is itty bitty, absolutely not. please keep making content, i beg. i love your style immediately.
thank you sm 💖 I literally got sick the day my wish video blew up, but I am working on new vids 💪
@@CarrieTooTired. How about hihi puffy ami yumi. Because it's pretty ahead of it's time!
Worst thing is that they could've broken the stereotype of "black cats are bad luck" by having a black cat that is good luck, only to pull the rug and say "actually, black cats *are* bad luck". As someone who owns a black cat, I can tell you that she is actually really lucky, she was found in a ditch in the middle of Canadian winter by my dad's friend, the only effects of that being a bit of frost bite at the tip of her tail causing it to be a little shorter, she has a decent sized house to live in with not only good windows to look out, but a big back yard for her to explore (on a harness), plus she's constantly given all the attention she wants. Black cats are one of the best type of cats and are anything but bad luck. Sorry for the rant :(
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I love black cats and always wanted one, never really believed in that superstition personally but I also really thought the movie was gonna do something w/ it
@@MikiAnne29 honestly if you want a good story about a black cat thats actually good luck read fortune falls by Jenny Goebel. It handles the theme of "luck" much better. At the end of the story the protagonist realizes that luck is just about perspective and how you handle situations tossed your way. Yes there is actual magical "luck" elements involved but I think its handled well for the most part. The black cat she hated because she associated them with bad luck was actually good luck that was helping her out throughout the book. But in the ending she doesn't use the cat for good luck because she wants to be able to achieve something through efforts alone and she succeeds despite the mishaps. Its been a while since I read the book so it may not be as great as I remember but I do like how it broke that big stereotype about black cats
One thing I don't like about shamrocks and leprechauns as luck symbols is that "The luck of the Irish" was used to discredit all of the achievements of Irish folks in the United States.
I get it but it's a thing Irish people join in on too so...
@@PointsofData Yeah, we do. Doesn't take away from the origin.
Fair. I wouldn’t like that either if I was Irish.
I now like leprechauns a little less. Thanks for the knowledge.
I feel like people should make their own luck symbols for movies like this. I’m half Irish and this is good to know.
1:57 I’m pretty sure she was trying to make a full length music video, not just a tik tok, that’s why the camera/phone wasn’t flipped over vertically
Getting cancer is unlucky, so she could have cured cancer but nooo having balance is apparently important.
There also wasn’t a single example that having too much luck is bad. Granted, they also didn’t show any harmful bad luck but that certainly exists in the real world.
4:30 That animation and music reminds me of "Hallo aus Berlin", which is a terrifying German-learning show.
do not disrespect Rolli and Rita like that /lh
Bro, why do all animators/artist have such cute voices and then I got a voice deeper than my brother?!
8:20 They REALLY tried to make a Pixar knockoff but they couldn't even hide the animation studio number well (or even at all). That alone perfectly encapsulates what this movie is.
When you brought up the lipstick fix to the bike pump it gave me a glimpse of a movie in which after years of continual bad luck, Sam developped a McGiver-esque ability to salavage and remedy situations on the fly. To the point people are taken aback.
"Why is she carrying X? What for?" Then a bad luck incident happens, and X happens to be exactly what she needs to quickly recover. And her coworkers go "Huh? But how could she have known?"
Sam would always have a plan.
Cue plot when something she couldn't plan for and can't recover from kicks her out of her comfort zone.
I'll say what I said on another review of luck: the 2009 Garfield show had a better luck episode, and they should've went with that.
Here's a quick rewrite of the plot. It's a bit cliché, but at least it has a purpose:
1) Sam suffers from persistent, *actual* bad luck. She's understandably glum about it, it's been going on "forever".
2) Sam somehow meets a luck managing staff, goes to luckworld, yadda yadda... acquires a lucky charm. Probably upsetting the balance of luck (but she don't know that!).
3) With the charm in hand and ludicrously positive luck, her life turns around for the best!
4a) However, the lucky charm seem to work by siphoning the luck of others around Sam (up to the luck of everyone else in the world), because now they have terribly bad luck.
4b) Bad people start to get suspicious of Sam and want her luck/gains.
5) Sam realizes can't keep skewing luck to her favor, for her sake and that of her friends.
She learns she has to endure through bad luck and enjoy good luck when it happens. The best one can do in situations out of their control is to stay optimistic and instead focus on what they can do.
6) Sam returns the lucky charm. Her luck turns bad again, but her friends' luck turns better again.
7) Despite bad luck making her lose her previous gains, she stays hopeful that things will get better and she's happy her friends are happy. Maybe she get a little good luck, as a treat.
You know what this reminds me of? A Dhar Mann (or whatever his name was) ripoff video where the kid wants a vr headset. His mom finds a drinking water competition with a vr headset as a prize (which ALREADY doesn't make sense) and wins. After that, she goes to sleep and dies because she drank too much water. After that the police give the little boy a vr headset with a lot of accessories but he's still mourning the death of his mother. I still fail to find the moral of that story to this day.
I think the moral lesson that Sam took is that without bad things happening unpredictably we would be denying ourselves for meeting and dealing with unexpected things in life. Like meeting new people or getting back together with another person
i hate when animation doesn't animate the cat to be more cat like. especially with the tail its like just smth taped to them. but then again the humans barely act like humans here too
I don't understand why everyone Why everyone wanted her to adopt the child? She was literally just 18 and barely had the financial situation to probably sit there and support herself.
That's why she couldn't adopt the kid. But other than that, that, it was yeah, pretty much a trash movie.
5:00 Context: A lucky penny isn't just some ordinary penny you picked out, it's a penny that chose you. The conditions have to be just right to receive a lucky penny;
A. You need to be in an unfamiliar space, this is because of
B. You need to happen across a random penny, if you're a superstite then you're more likely to have more superstites around you, reducing the chance of the penny being random.
C. It needs to be Tails facing up. Further reducing the chances of you happening across a lucky penny by an extra 50%.
14:25 she never struggled and didn't learn a lesson, why are we following her again? Because we needed a stand in.
Honestly the penny gathering thing feels like those dumb fetch quests in kids games. You know what I'm talking about.
I remember getting so many adds for this movie but then instantly forgetting about it
This is the first time I've seen the LIKE button glow with a rainbow effect right when you said "like it" at the end and I was just mousing over to do so. Like the video. :)
thank you sm 💕
14:42 THAT’S WHAT I WAS BUGGED ABOUT THE MOST WITH THIS MOVIE!! I really wanted the message to be that Sam and/or Hazel didn’t need to be adopted by other randoz to be a family cause family or luck/being lucky don’t have to be what the standard is but instead they just had Hazel get what she originally wanted which was a standard family and she still got to see Sam often, while Sam just lives pretty much the same as she did before so all the “character progression” ultimately doesn’t even matter as much after this point 😅
5:59 im impressed of how strong is that leaf blower is
"Why is the dragon dressed like a flight attendant?"
See, my only theory would be because dragons can fly.
But she has no wings.
So....lol.
One thing that really got me about the animation is aside from the bad acting, their eyes just....weren't emotive enough? They all looked dead inside--except for Bob, somehow. It's like...the top of their eyes move, but not the bottoms enough? Eh. You put it well--it's stiff.
1:44 LUCKY STAR REFERENCE???!?!?!?!?!?!??!!?!
the character designs are so... forgettable, too. i like how the dragon looks i guess, but i just really like dragons, its hard to mess up a dragon (though still possible). also the humans eyes look WEIRD and i dont actually know why, but they do.
bob is cute ig?? but nothing stands out abt his design other than being polydactyl
Jeff the unicorn being a mustached middle-aged accountant instead of the usual "graceful dainty horse" unicorns are portrayed as is funny tho.
The dragon looks like that one dragon from shrek. Which isnt bad but its not very memorable :(
How do you make a unforgettable character design?
@@reesesinyobowl theres a lot that factors into that lol i aint answering that in a youtube comment. that said, you _dont_ do what this movie did 💀
When the little girl said, "You sure have bad luck, Sam Greenfield." I completely gave up on this movie being anything better than passable because who talks like that?
12:51 context (this is a class at the end of the year.) At around this scene where they are sitting at the edge a character just kinda dissapeared and someone asked what happend to him and someone said "he jumped" "Nah thats crazy" 💀
Just a half an hour ago I saw some art of some character I'd never seen before, then I got recommended this video and while watching it I noticed that the dragon looked vaguely familiar, so I checked and sure enough it was the same character! Man, what are the chances?
2:20 HELP THE AMOG US EYES
Woah, why is this channel so underrated! These videos are adorable.
ahh thank you sm 💕
the acting issue has got to be a directorial issue because Eva Noblezada (who plays Sam) is an insanely talented actress who has originated multiple roles on Broadway. Either that or they only did one take for each delivery
there are so many movies and shows that explore the concept of luck. Milo Murphy's law highlights his optimism and resourcefulness. whereas the nick movie jinxed explores the draining side of bad luck. the characters have rules center around situations they've experienced. There's ways characters work around bad luck! and if they really wanted Sam to be constantly unlucky then they could explore the idea that her trying to fix/prevent bad luck makes the situations worse.
I remember when my sister and I watched this, and we're both fans of side-plot romance in films and games, so we thought Sam and Jerry were going to be like, you know, a thing. He seemed into her at first, but then it just disappeared later on. I think we were more upset about that than anything else 😅
it definitely would’ve been interesting if they kept contact or something… they literally introduced him and did nothing lmao
Your oc and there movements are really good and so is your review, also your underrated
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@@CarrieTooTired yw and l like your voice and congrats on 1k you totally deserve it, hope your doing well and staying safe
dude it would have been so much better if sam eventually learned to "baby proof" her house in a way.
barriers everywhere, better window locks, pairing up her socks, fixing things that have even a CHANCE of breaking later ect.
also my biggest nit-pick is how the insanely lucky penny, itself, isnt lucky at all. in the most unlucky Goldberg effect way, it fell into an automatic movement sensing toilet. im not even a critic and i noticed that on my FIRST WATCH (and only watch) without youtubers
Yeah, like make it so she loses it trying to see just how lucky it makes her or something like how she repeatedly tested the bread or something, something that the literal only way it could turn out is her losing it
As someone who has never seen this movie, I have some good things to say about it
- The ginger leprechaun looks cute. Some of the other character designs look cute too.
- The dragon has a a nice design (but she low-key reminds of the dragon from Shrek).
- And Bob the cat seems like a cool guy.
It's a little disappointing to see this movie didn't perform well (based on Carrie's reaction and general reviews). Luck seems like it had a lot of potential. It would be nice to see a movie that isn't pre-existing IP, like a reboot or spin-off, succeed on streaming or in the box office.
Ok but I laughed so hard at the part where the cat admits that he has a different accent. I couldn’t believe the movie did that
Such a weird plot twist like???
Babe the dragon is probably the only element in this whole movie that I genuinely find interesting and keeps it from being totally forgettable. Her design is lovely and her voice and mannerisms give off a nice motherly yet authoritative vibe, plus I like the gag of her using a fire extinguisher like an inhaler. She's too good for this film honestly.
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Ahhh thank you 💖 welcome to the club!
I watched this film with my Dad when it was released on Apple TV because we wanted to see how it compared to Pixar’s older films since Lasseter was involved and we both hated it. He told me that the plot reminded him of a Rankin/Bass movie because there were too many characters, the plot had so many unnecessary and complex turns and such, and it felt so long despite only an hour and forty minute-long duration.
Also, the TikTok dancing at the beginning was the hardest I’ve cringed at a movie in years.
i just found your channel and i love your videos a lot, but god the tomodachi life music is heartbreaking after i effed up my 2Ds during cleaning and reassembly last weekend😭... saving up for a new one... and subbing!
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4:40 my man just picked up a globe from the backrooms
Gotta feel bad for the people who did their first voice acting gig for this movie. They have really bad luck
Those sick toast flips XD
I like the way that the way that your voice goes into my ears and makes my brain happy
haha thanks 👀
@@CarrieTooTired gasps! A response!!
So if someone passes by and witnesses a thief about to break into a home therefore stopping the thief from breaking into the home, what would clogging the bad luck do? Seeing the thief is bad luck for the thief but good luck for the home owner. Not seeing the thief is good for the thief, bad for the home owner. I don't think it is possible for either forms of luck to disappear from the world. One person's bad luck can be another person's good luck.
Skydance Animation's output after the admittedly good short film Blush is why I got worried when Skydance was announced to merge with Paramount, which also houses Nickelodeon. Paramount and Nickelodeon have a very loose way of producing animated movies, and similar to Sony, the styles of their movies show variety like the TMNT and Transformers movies recently. Skydance on the other hand, is more content with sticking to the Pixar/Disney style, not just in terms of animation, but also storytelling. This could hold them back and give them the reputation of being the low-rent version of Pixar and Disney that happens to have the former leader of those two companies running it.
Right now, Lasseter is planning to stick with Skydance since they have a deal with Netflix starting with this year's Spellbound, and he will not be running Paramount or Nickelodeon Animation.
For a movie about luck, the luck universe is incredibly boring, you could have done so much with the concept of good and bad luck in different cultures, I know that they showed a few animals and objects of good luck (like rabbits, dragons, four leaf clovers, ect) but they get repetitive very quickly, plus the environment is just so bland, it’s trying to hard to give a modernised monsters inc kinda vibe.
Also the moral is just non existent, there’s not even a “be grateful for what you have” or “there can’t be good luck with out bad luck” so you just feel like you’ve waisted your time
Also fun fact that I just learnt! Leprechauns aren’t symbols of good luck, they’re symbols of wealth and hard work(but it’s considered lucky if you see one)
Some interesting developments behind why this film turned out the way it did.
Skydance Animation originally began as a pretty small studio contracting all their work out with a small creative team. Their first mini-film they released "Blush" was very well received and a simple yet beautiful piece of animation. At the same time they were developing Luck. A film that was undergoing an incredibly tumultuous production with many fingers being pointed at the original director.
John Lasseter joined Skydance midway through the production of the film, and with him came a MASSIVE shift in studio vision and studio size, basically overnight needing the infrastructure to support a rapidly growing Hollywood level animation studio while simultaneously dealing with a turd film well under production. There were problems with the film and it's original director was fired due to "creative differences" which I interpret as Hollywood for "He was making a turd film and not listening to any internal feedback" only a year out from the films release. With the director replaced and a looming deadline only a year out whatever they could scrap together and fix from what was already a pretty unfixable film at that point was thrown out and John Lasseter's name got attached to it.
Unfairly attached to the film, perhaps, but that's Hollywood. And that's not to say John can't make bad films, he already has. Luck, however, was certainly a hurricane heading for shore that an entire studio got plopped into the path of, and the best they could do was point a bunch of fans out to sea like a bunch of crazy Floridians trying to stop it from making it to shore. I'm holding out hope that their upcoming series WondLa and film Spellbound turn things around for Skydance and proves that they put out the kind of quality people are accustomed to from Pixar and DreamWorks. If you haven't heard of those projects yet, I'd give them a look when they come out later this year. I'd be interested in your thoughts and if things turn out better or worse.
It would be nice to see a new studio come along to try and tackle the beasts of Pixar, Dreamworks, and Illumination. We already lost Blue Sky sadly so I think it's time for something new.
I don't think that firing a director for creative differences means that the movie was a turd. Lasseter just has a very specific idea of what makes an animated movie good. Remember that he fired Chris Sanders (who brought us Lilo & Stitch AKA the only 2000s Disney film pre-Lasseter that was a critical and financial hit upon release) from American Dog because he found the movie too weird for Disney, and Lasseter was already not a fan of Lilo & Stitch. Sanders would later join DreamWorks, directing How to Train Your Dragon, The Croods, and The Wild Robot.
Luck was also an entirely different movie before Lasseter joined. It was going to be more heist and war-themed when showing the worlds of good luck and bad luck, but it was expensively reworked into something resembling Pixar movies like Inside Out and Monsters Inc. It's possible the original concept could have been more interesting than the final movie we got.
bob's teeth make me uncomfortable
why does he look so human?
I love how AI bros make generative machine learning "movies" so bad that "uninspired Pixar ripoff" somehow looks even more soulless to me now
Edit: I'm gonna go watch Milo Murphy's Law
Bob seems the most interesting caracter in the move just because I like black cats
I think one aspect that people don’t mention enough is the boring environment already throws off the entire thing.
Most scenes focus on the bare necessities that it should be comprised of. I.e, the home at the start of the movie lacks character like the children are just propped in there to act; it doesn’t look lived in. It’s a theme throughout the whole movie so it feels more like watching a low budget kids series with animations and character detail dialed up. The director clearly didn’t invest enough time into letting the environment contribute to the story. All characters wear bland clothes with no personality, the buildings are uniformly clean- the human aspect is washed away.
im not even gonna lie, i watched this movie maybe a year or so ago and it genuinely made me feel physically ill
Ok... I thought it was a video about Disney "Wish" movie, because of how similar these main characters look...
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Huh, I didn't know the movie even had a factory-like setting to explain what creates all the luck in the world. It does come off as Pixar-esque, considering they made Monsters Inc. and Inside Out. Even then, those two movies established their setting in the opening minutes, and several functions are shown rather than told if they're not critical to the story (Screams=Power and the importance of memories, respectively, are outright told to the audience, but not a lot else is).
In Luck's case, it seems they wanted to do a similar setting, but only explored it partway through the film, and even looking at the clips you showed I don't know what purpose any of the offices or machinery serve (unless it was in exposition you skipped). Like any bad rip-off, it took similar imagery but missed the point of why it was there in the first place.
I agree so much. They forced us to watch that stupid movie when I was in the hospital, and it sucked. I was dying internally
- Now, where did i put the broom?
* picks up the globe *
- That’s not it.
The idea was neat, as proven by countless other "Bad luck" characters like Inspector Gadget, Milo Murphy even that guy from the Naked Gun movies. The world of Luck had a neat history and set up, and they did nothing really with it. I still annoyed how quickly they went over the bad luck world, as if they were doing a speed run of a game.
Seriously a major part of the story was how bad the MC's luck always was. Be nice if we found out a reason, like some one in the bad luck world hated her, the machine was broke or something.
The trailer I saw for Luck looked promising to a small degree for me.
When I saw the movie, the only thing I could see in my head when I heard "luck" was the purple and green glitter flying everywhere.
It would have been cool to see Sam use her bad luck to fix good luck, but that never happened.
I was also hoping that the cat would play the part of a good luck guide.
Not an actual guide.
And when she dressed up as an elf... just... how did no one realize she was human when they send agents to the HUMAN world.
Why do they send them?? No idea.
That could've played a part, but it never did. It was just "oh yeah, that's a thing. Moving on."
There could have been much more done.
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Omg what?? I love the cat design haha, basically the only thing drawing me to the movie 😂
I ALSO LAUGHED AT TGE JOKE… 10:25
honestly the greatest impact this film will likely ever have is putting this channel on the map as a animated film critiquer
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aww this is so sweet 🥺💕 thank you
@@CarrieTooTired No problem! :D
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This movie doesn't deserve such a hot dragon
4:23 Wait, you don't speak English natively? I would've never have known! Your accent is so good!
In the first 5 mins me and my sibling got rlly bored-