Jack loves watching these animated features more than I do and this one is perfectly serviceable. It is fun to watch them with a grandchild or three, however. Sam, a clever and sweet girl with terrible luck, has aged out of her orphanage, and travels to an alternate universe that's all about luck. Eva Noblezada voices Sam, Lil Rel Howery is Marv, Simon Pegg is Bob the Cat, Whoopi Goldberg is Captain of the Luck universe, and Jane Fonda is Dragon. John Ratzenberger has a cameo as a bartender named Rootie.
The director is Peggy Holmes and the screenwriter is Kiel Murray with many other credits for story and concept. John Debney's score is available on Apple Music and probably elsewhere. Noblezada sings the Madonna song Lucky Star both at the beginning and middle.
Howery was last blogged for Good Boys, Pegg for 2013 Oscar nominated shorts and The World's End. After Book Club and during 94 episodes of Grace and Frankie (2015-22), Fonda was most recently in these pages for Death to 2021. Debney was last blogged for Elf, which came out 18 years before I wrote about it and 14 years before The Greatest Showman.
Noblezada, a good singer, is new to me. Though I haven't actually written an introductory profile for Goldberg (she had a cameo in Top Five) I think everyone knows all about her––you might want to learn that Sister Act 3 is in pre-production. Since his 270 episodes of Cheers (1992-93) Ratzenberger has been very busy, including all the Toy Story movies and much more. Holmes has directed one other feature, also animated, and Murray co-wrote two of the Cars animated movies, which I didn't see, among others.
Rotten Tomatoes' critics' average is an unfortunate 49%, while its audiences come in at 68. We watched it on Apple TV+ on August 15 with our amused eight year old, who liked it a lot.
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