Movie review
August 5, 2022 · 105 min · G
Woke Score
Lower is better
Review
The movie features diverse voice actors and an unlucky orphan girl from foster care who risks everything to help her young foster friend get adopted into a "forever family." The entire narrative engine is a fantasy comedy about good-luck and bad-luck organizations, friendship, and turning luck around through selflessness. No political dialogue, no activist sermons, and no identity politics drive the story. A throwaway all-gender bathroom gag appears once and is never emphasized.
Breakdown
These are the editorial factors and ratings behind our score for Luck.
Woke representation / casting
Diverse voice cast (Eva Noblezada, Whoopi Goldberg, etc.) for fantasy roles in original story; not audience-visible forced diversity or signaling since it is non-visual animation with no marketing emphasis.
Woke political dialogue
No evidence of explicit activist or political dialogue in any summaries or reviews.
Identity-driven story themes
Foster-care and adoption elements create emotional stakes and found-family resolution; standard personal backstory for kids' fantasy, not modern identity-politics messaging.
Western institutional / cultural critique
Luck organizations are pure comedic fantasy bureaucracy; no modern activist framing around identity, capitalism, patriarchy, or systemic oppression.
Woke character or canon changes
Not relevant
Production
Anti-woke backlash and complaints
No backlash or widespread complaints framing the title as too woke or agenda-driven.
Creator track record context
Team from mainstream family animation (Disney/Pixar-style credits); no documented pattern of identity-driven or activist projects.
