Full disclosure: I don’t believe in luck, but I do believe that “Ruck”, the first feature-length toon of Skydance animation backed by David Ellison, represents a force for good in the world.
Developing both a pipeline and a project that can compete with Disney and DreamWorks is no small feat. (Even so, it’s a famous movie, and Emma Thompson resigned in protest when the company hired former Pixar chief executive John Lasseter.) Not quite, but a head start for a talented group of storytellers.
After Lasseter’s involvement, “Luck” changed direction, changed directors, and choreographer-turned-helmer Peggy Holmes (she had two Tinkerbell films, but nothing of this magnitude). was nothing) and moved on to a plot full of cute side characters (light-hearted leprechauns! Dancing bunnies!). Still, the creative team never fully unraveled the promising subject matter, settling on her brave but ill-fated 18-year-old orphan who journeys to a source of both good and bad luck. Location — to collect magic pennies for her best friend Hazel.
In addition to not having a “forever family” of her own, Sam Greenfield (voiced by Eva Nobrezada) is cursed with clumsiness, constantly losing things and causing chaos wherever she goes. Strange accidents have a way of finding her, as demonstrated by the highly relevant (and therefore funny) accident sequence she experiences on her first morning at her new job. She locks her inside her, locks her in her bathroom, drops her toast (jelly side down, of course), and hits every red light on her way to work.
No wonder Sam considers himself the most unlucky person alive.except for that sam teeth Alive, it kind of disproves her theory from the start. She has already won the biological lottery and as a result she was born. And despite the countless embarrassments and painful setbacks she faces on a daily basis, she’s not dead yet. Or the hapless pedestrian flattened by a fallen window AC unit (these are counter-examples from real life, not movie characters).
When you think about what wacky Sam is, she might just be the luckiest person in the movie. She has a great boss (Marv from Lil Rel Howery), a free apartment and a fancy green denim jacket for her. Plus, there’s an entire sequence where her bad luck seems to be working in her favor, in short, we’re dealing with a misguided predicament here.
This might sound like comic platitudes meant to be frivolous and fun, except that luck isn’t one of those phenomena that people all over the world can agree on. Peg) and become Sam’s ticket to the Land of Fortune. In most countries, a black cat is a bad omen, but not in Scotland, which Bob calls home, or Japan, where Hayao Miyazaki’s classic “Kiki’s Delivery Service” was made. There, they are a blessing. So which should it be? (Bob, by the way, looks and moves a lot like Kiki’s slender, discus-eyed cat companion Gigi, given Lasseter’s love of Studio Ghibli).
Clearly, the creative team had many choices to make. That included the pretty obvious choice to get rid of religion and let luck be the only power Sam and Hazel (Adeline Spoon) believe in. I hope you will be adopted. Instead, Hazel collects good luck charms (look for the iconic marshmallow crayon drawing above her bed) and does her best. One day, Sam discovers a lucky penny that Bob left behind in the human world (lucky for her), loses it (unlucky), and chases Bob through a magical portal (lucky). Is Penny really helping Sam in any of these situations?
By its own bizarre logic, the film treats fortune as a glowing green force, retracing the lives of people who randomly receive their fortune from the Land of Fortune, where leprechauns pipe things to the earth and rabbits. Make it easy Serves as an adorable minion in the movie. On the other side of this tiny planet is Bad Luck, populated by troll-like creatures tasked with dealing with the more dire purple matter. Balancing the two elements is a giant pink dragon of fortune (Jane Fonda), her industrious leprechaun workforce captain (Woopi Goldberg), and a duffy German named Jeff (Furla Borg). A unicorn with an accent. ), mostly act as the story calls for.
Kiel Murray’s script is overly simplistic and frivolous. This cuts short a relatively clever observation about chances that makes the opening stretch so promising, as it’s immersed in the plot of chasing lucky pennies. To — like “Deadpool 2,” when it introduced the novel concept that it might be the most useful superpower of all.
Instead, we’re trapped in the Land of Luck, which turns out to be a place of strange corporations with shimmering buildings and floating elevators, like Brad Bird’s “Tomorrowland” or many Marvel It’s like a sophisticated CG fun park in a big city in Tokyo.All the buildings were not conceived to reflect the rich cultural heritage of thousands of years. It was designed on a computer by a person from (It’s a disastrous trend in VFX-driven movies that foreign worlds are designed to impress at first sight rather than reflect the people who live there.) As a result, this is an area one sees and briefly admires, but one doesn’t want to spend time exploring – like the Netflix cafeteria or the break room on his Google campus.
But Sam wants her pennies. That means you can befriend Bob (Peg is great as a slow-thaw cat) and Bud He Luck’s inhabitants (including the bartender, voiced by “Cheers” veteran John Ratzenberger). Orphan Sam proves this goes miles and miles, as she bonds with just about everyone she meets, including her audience. Whenever movie ideas run out, Sam breaks into a spontaneous karaoke/dance her version of Madonna’s Lucky Star (her TikTok tyranny over popular entertainment reappears). Your mileage may vary. As they say, “luck” is what you make of it.
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