A'ight, I watched Luck. I will say that I do believe the critics are a bit too harsh, 'cause while it's not the greatest movie ever, I don't believe it's outright terrible. This was a movie with obvious production problems, and you can actually tell the parts where Lasseter was involved in oversight because the facial expressions and some other movements became more expressive and smooth. There's some real stiff-looking animation to the faces and such, something that was bothering me from the word "go" because the tone of voice rarely matched up to the facial expressions you'd expect them to make (though this may have been due to remote work during Covid).
The world-building needed more time in the oven, there's some interesting areas of the Land of Luck that definitely could've been played with whenever Sam's bad luck kicked in, and I like how good and bad luck mirror each other. Although, I have to wonder if the bad luck part of it was Lasseter's idea for the sake of balancing things out since some of the characters there imply a later production (simpler character models, John Ratzenberger's cameo, the character of Jeff the unicorn, the third act in general). Also figuring out Bob's identity was super easy because you just have to ask why the hell a Scottish black cat is named "Bob" and has a really crummy-sounding Scottish accent and that hole never goes away.
I dunno, I suppose I feel bad since this may be a younger crew who got screwed over by the pandemic (this is not the same crew behind Planet 51 for sure, but maybe they did with Wonder Park), and instead of the movie getting shown in theaters, it's shoved up onto Apple TV+ to be forgotten about with maybe a limited release in some theaters. My friend had a thought the negative feedback is because Lasseter was involved and Disney/the critics hate his guts, but I'm convinced that's not the case. I do believe it doesn't need to be ripped apart so rabidly, though.