Jinxed
2013
Action / Comedy / Family

Jinxed
2013
Action / Comedy / Family
Plot summary
Meet the Murphys, a family with never ending bad luck. "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong," it's Murphy's law! Over a century ago a witch put a magical curse on their great-great grandfather and the whole family has been jinxed for generations! After Meg Murphy (played by Big Time Rush's Ciara Bravo) and her family's house is destroyed in yet another freak accident, the family moves into their grandfather's house in Harvest Hills. In a not-so-strange case of bad luck, Meg's nemesis Ivy is also spending the summer in town. But things start to look up, kind of, when Meg meets a local boy named Brett and he casts another spell on her, a love spell that is! With help from her brother Charlie, Meg more determined than ever, must break the hex on her catastrophically cursed family! Watch this doomed teen try for a normal existence in a world full of hijinks!
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A Teenage Film That Could Have Been Better
Bad Luck in the Story Department
This movie is a noble effort, but it makes choices or errors that are hard to overlook. One is that if the family really had a curse of bad luck, then nothing good would ever happen for them and that they wouldn't be able to really live happy lives at all. Despite that, I think the part about the dad finding errors in machines using the bad luck was really clever though, even though his bad luck should actually prevent him from doing so instead. Another is more of a criticism of a choice made by the writer, but still really matters. I know the writer was going for a moral of be who you are and staying that way will make you happy, but if the curse was created through the means of a dispute (for dumb reasons come to think of it) between the Murphys and the O'Learys/Murrays, then why not make it so that the resolution/reconciliation of that dispute by the ancestors would not just reverse the curse, but break it forever? If they'd had the coin fall into the fountain while Meg and Brett kissed and the curse be broken as a result, that would have worked so much better. Plus, the moral could have instead been that you're allowed to overcome the obstacles in life that prevent you from being happy as long as you acknowledge that you have to face them and not avoid them. Not acknowledging why that idea couldn't work in a convincing and believable way left me with a dissatisfied feeling in the end because of it. This didn't have to be a perfect movie in any way, it just needed to be more coherent. Swindle actually had much more consistent and thoughtful writing and that is what made it surprisingly good. It looks as though those who worked on Jinxed tried, but not hard enough.