This isn’t for the audience of Ms. Oprah Winfrey whose definition of Luck is when opportunity meets preparation (vice versa) (ultra pragmatism). As in this movie, there’re many opportunities and several preparations, alas, there’s no Luck, and what Simon Pegg (Bob the black cat) says to Sam (The unluckiest protagonist) in the Land of Luck itself that how much unlucky she is? That was quite humorous!
Luck is about telling the audience why unluck too is necessary for the learning phase in life, but again, as too much of anything is always bad; unless one embraces it as an aspect for evolutionary learning process.
Sam travels to the Land of Luck via a portal to get the lucky penny to help her friend to get adopted. In between her quest, she questions the imbalance of luck & unluck, random luck, and luck to the undeserving. Bob is her co-partner, as he too is in the quest to find a missing lucky penny that he lost, and if not found, then would be banished to the land of bad luck, for good. Sam & Bob travels back & forth from good luck to bad luck; eventually in the end Randomizer (a machine that distributes good and bad luck) throughout world, gets damaged; & then starts another quest of theirs to rebuilt it.
I review the essence of any flick, philosophically, & not to narrate the script itself. If you like the philosophy behind any ART, you would watch, else, give it a miss.
Luck shows, that in the world of bad luck, how its inhabitants have adapted to day-to-day routine, and in the World of good luck, how everything comes so easy, that one doesn’t have to try, yet, insecure with less learning. One would question the concept of random luck/unluck with how and why, in life. And if you aren’t into this Forbes under 10, 20, 30 gobbledygook, or excessive pragmatism; then this flick would entertain you.
All said & done, a good watch. 😊
© Pranav Chaturvedi