To round off our BritPop Goes to the Movies mini-series, we jump to 2006, a simpler time when fledgling British pop-rockers McFly and their management could force themselves on an unsuspecting Hollywood. Lindsay Lohan (at the height of her fame) and Chris Pine (who Rob would argue is the best of the Chrises) on the come-up, star in an all-American, by-the-numbers romcom, which was sold in this country largely based on the already successful McFly's appearance. However, in America, Tom, Dougie, Harry and Danny were complete unknowns, and this was their only shot to crack the US market.
This film differs in many ways from the previous two in the series, not least because it is a fully American production, but also because the band is very much the B-plot to a high-concept convolution in which Lohan and Pine continue to switch luck and status. There's still plenty of British pop music in it, though. Lots of McFly tracks but a lot of repetition of Five Colours in Her Hair.
Joining Guy and Rob is fellow Film Stories Podcast Network host Dev Elson of Chucky Vision and At The Movies in the Noughties. He did more than his fair share of superfluous research by listening to every McFly album. Is this film as bad as we are making it sound, though? Well, you’ll just have to finish the trilogy to find out.
Five Colours In Her Hair - McFly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h76uVRSJ5bc
Obviously - McFly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiyF3K7hFqM
Harry Judd Wins Strictly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb_s2RHVBdY
Chris Pine in Smokin' Aces
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-tGV96ceBM&t=148s
Chris Pine - The Otley Run
https://x.com/CapitalOfficial/status/1641409178387324934
Just My Luck Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClDQ4SLDDOw
Just My Luck - Central Park Scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZz6l8MCFFY
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