For Lucky You DVD watchers, the big tell comes the moment you pop the disc in the player. We are greeted, not by an elaborate menu, but by an advertisement for the soundtrack. It doesn't take long to figure out that this isn't an ad to sell something in addition to the movie, but an ad for an album with songs too good for the movie we are about to watch. With an original song from Bob Dylan and some classics from Springsteen, Liza Minelli, George Jones, and Bonnie Raitt, the soundtrack proves to have more nuances than Lucky You, a feature full of one-note performance and flat directing.
Extras:
If you count a separately packaged soundtrack as an “extra,” then that's about as good as you are going to get. The music is the only bright spot to come out of this otherwise dark DVD experience.
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