Luck
Just finished watching "Luck" released by Skydance Animation as an Apple Original Film back in 2022, and it did receive a limited release in movie theaters before being shifted to Apple TV's online streaming service.
Now as frequent readers of my reviews on Social Media know, I don't subscribe to any streaming services and my only cable bill is for Internet, not cable television. So if I want to see something that is exclusively available online, I have to wait for the release on Blu-ray when it happens overseas - the joys of having a multi-region blu-ray player. Keep in mind that movies and television shows are not always available on streaming services, and old television shows and movies might be edited for content.
Now to address the elephant in the room: I'm assuming that eBay, Amazon, and other online retail websites are doing their due diligence and are not selling me illegal copies and the packaging appears to be legitimate and they appear to be authentic legal blu-rays that are being sold by legitimate vendors.
Now to address the second elephant in the room - John Lasseter. "Luck" was the first movie Lasseter co-produced and released after he stepped down from Pixar and Walt Disney Animated Studios for alleged sexual misconduct toward employees. He wasn't fired, but his contract with Disney wasn't renewed and while there hasn't - to the best of my knowledge - been any payoffs by him and/or Disney for his alleged behavior, Lasseter is still seen as a pariah in Hollywood, but it is important to note that there have been no public claims of sexual misconduct towards him at Skydance Animation.
"Luck" is a bold step for Lasseter who, along with the team at Sky Dance Animation, have a main character who is a young woman who has aged out of the foster care system, Sam Greenfield and is sent out into the world to fend for herself, much to the dismay of her younger friend and roommate Hazel, who is hoping to be adopted soon.
One night, after sharing food with a black cat, Sam finds a penny she hopes to give to Hazel for her collection of lucky items that may help her get adopted. The next day, Sam notices that the penny has made her luck improve. However, she loses the penny by inadvertently flushing it down a toilet.
While bemoaning her error, Sam encounters the cat again and says what happened, which causes the cat to berate her for losing the penny. Shocked that the cat could talk, Sam follows the cat through a portal to the Land of Luck, where creatures like leprechauns create good luck for the people on Earth. The cat, named Bob, needs the penny for traveling purposes and will be banished if word gets out that he lost it. Bob and Sam make a deal to get another penny from the Penny depot for Hazel to use before returning it to Bob. Bob uses a button from Sam to pass off as a penny while she sneaks into the Land of Luck using clothes belonging to Bob's personal leprechaun, Gerry. Throughout the journey, Sam comes to learn that bad luck is managed underneath the Land of Luck.
Following a disaster at the Penny depot which causes Gerry to learn about Sam's identity, Gerry uses a drone to retrieve the missing penny on Earth. However, the drone gets lost in the In-Between, a space between the Good and Bad Luck lands. Sam and Bob go to the In-Between, which is managed by a unicorn named Jeff. Jeff manages the Bad Luck Apparat, a machine that keeps bad luck specks from sticking which feeds the Randomizer, another machine that sends both good and bad luck into Earth. Jeff reveals that he found the penny and has returned it to the depot. Undeterred, Sam decides to visit Babe, the dragon who manages the good luck, in hopes to get another penny. Babe tells Sam how better things would be if everyone had good luck before giving her a new penny. But Sam sacrifices her penny after Bob is caught for faking his travel penny to spare him from banishment.
Still wanting to help Hazel, Sam and Bob decide to temporarily shut down the Bad Luck Apparat to prevent bad luck from going to the Randomizer and give Hazel the luck she needs to get adopted. However, the bad luck specks start to clog Jeff's machines and destroy the good luck and bad luck stones within the Randomizer, which itself brings bad luck to the Land of Luck and Earth. Seeing Hazel did not get adopted because of this, learning that Bob is actually an unlucky English cat and having been found out as a human, Sam sulks in remorse. Bob apologizes and says that Hazel is the luckiest girl for having Sam at her side. Sam realizes things can be fixed because she remembers seeing some good luck in Bad Luck land while on her way to the In-Between.
In Bad Luck, they find it in a tiki bar where the bartender, a root monster named Rootie, who is Bob's old friend, gives them a jar of good luck they have been using. They take it to Babe to forge new good and bad luck stones. However, while creating a bad luck stone, Babe makes two good luck stones, wanting to create a world with only good luck. Before she can place them, Sam tells Babe people need bad luck as much as good luck. Realizing her mistake, she allows Sam to place the bad luck stone, and good luck is restored to normal, where Sam sees Hazel getting adopted by a new family. Bob is offered to keep his job at the Land of Luck, but decides he wants to live with Sam.
One year later, on Earth, Hazel's family spends time with Sam and Bob, who have accepted their bad luck and are getting on with their lives as a new blended family.
"Luck" went through many incarnations before Lasseter took over the helm at Skydance Animation, and it definitely benefited from his involvement and the animation is on par with Pixar and Disney Studios and the story is compelling and goes places his former studio wouldn't dare go.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
TEN STARS!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/256733561956...
Now as frequent readers of my reviews on Social Media know, I don't subscribe to any streaming services and my only cable bill is for Internet, not cable television. So if I want to see something that is exclusively available online, I have to wait for the release on Blu-ray when it happens overseas - the joys of having a multi-region blu-ray player. Keep in mind that movies and television shows are not always available on streaming services, and old television shows and movies might be edited for content.
Now to address the elephant in the room: I'm assuming that eBay, Amazon, and other online retail websites are doing their due diligence and are not selling me illegal copies and the packaging appears to be legitimate and they appear to be authentic legal blu-rays that are being sold by legitimate vendors.
Now to address the second elephant in the room - John Lasseter. "Luck" was the first movie Lasseter co-produced and released after he stepped down from Pixar and Walt Disney Animated Studios for alleged sexual misconduct toward employees. He wasn't fired, but his contract with Disney wasn't renewed and while there hasn't - to the best of my knowledge - been any payoffs by him and/or Disney for his alleged behavior, Lasseter is still seen as a pariah in Hollywood, but it is important to note that there have been no public claims of sexual misconduct towards him at Skydance Animation.
"Luck" is a bold step for Lasseter who, along with the team at Sky Dance Animation, have a main character who is a young woman who has aged out of the foster care system, Sam Greenfield and is sent out into the world to fend for herself, much to the dismay of her younger friend and roommate Hazel, who is hoping to be adopted soon.
One night, after sharing food with a black cat, Sam finds a penny she hopes to give to Hazel for her collection of lucky items that may help her get adopted. The next day, Sam notices that the penny has made her luck improve. However, she loses the penny by inadvertently flushing it down a toilet.
While bemoaning her error, Sam encounters the cat again and says what happened, which causes the cat to berate her for losing the penny. Shocked that the cat could talk, Sam follows the cat through a portal to the Land of Luck, where creatures like leprechauns create good luck for the people on Earth. The cat, named Bob, needs the penny for traveling purposes and will be banished if word gets out that he lost it. Bob and Sam make a deal to get another penny from the Penny depot for Hazel to use before returning it to Bob. Bob uses a button from Sam to pass off as a penny while she sneaks into the Land of Luck using clothes belonging to Bob's personal leprechaun, Gerry. Throughout the journey, Sam comes to learn that bad luck is managed underneath the Land of Luck.
Following a disaster at the Penny depot which causes Gerry to learn about Sam's identity, Gerry uses a drone to retrieve the missing penny on Earth. However, the drone gets lost in the In-Between, a space between the Good and Bad Luck lands. Sam and Bob go to the In-Between, which is managed by a unicorn named Jeff. Jeff manages the Bad Luck Apparat, a machine that keeps bad luck specks from sticking which feeds the Randomizer, another machine that sends both good and bad luck into Earth. Jeff reveals that he found the penny and has returned it to the depot. Undeterred, Sam decides to visit Babe, the dragon who manages the good luck, in hopes to get another penny. Babe tells Sam how better things would be if everyone had good luck before giving her a new penny. But Sam sacrifices her penny after Bob is caught for faking his travel penny to spare him from banishment.
Still wanting to help Hazel, Sam and Bob decide to temporarily shut down the Bad Luck Apparat to prevent bad luck from going to the Randomizer and give Hazel the luck she needs to get adopted. However, the bad luck specks start to clog Jeff's machines and destroy the good luck and bad luck stones within the Randomizer, which itself brings bad luck to the Land of Luck and Earth. Seeing Hazel did not get adopted because of this, learning that Bob is actually an unlucky English cat and having been found out as a human, Sam sulks in remorse. Bob apologizes and says that Hazel is the luckiest girl for having Sam at her side. Sam realizes things can be fixed because she remembers seeing some good luck in Bad Luck land while on her way to the In-Between.
In Bad Luck, they find it in a tiki bar where the bartender, a root monster named Rootie, who is Bob's old friend, gives them a jar of good luck they have been using. They take it to Babe to forge new good and bad luck stones. However, while creating a bad luck stone, Babe makes two good luck stones, wanting to create a world with only good luck. Before she can place them, Sam tells Babe people need bad luck as much as good luck. Realizing her mistake, she allows Sam to place the bad luck stone, and good luck is restored to normal, where Sam sees Hazel getting adopted by a new family. Bob is offered to keep his job at the Land of Luck, but decides he wants to live with Sam.
One year later, on Earth, Hazel's family spends time with Sam and Bob, who have accepted their bad luck and are getting on with their lives as a new blended family.
"Luck" went through many incarnations before Lasseter took over the helm at Skydance Animation, and it definitely benefited from his involvement and the animation is on par with Pixar and Disney Studios and the story is compelling and goes places his former studio wouldn't dare go.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
TEN STARS!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/256733561956...
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