Reasons for watching this movie (in case anyone was wondering why I would do such a thing): I love the Olsen Twins right now, I keep wanting to push New York Minute even higher in my 2004 chart :-p But also I just wanted to see one of their pre-NYM movies to see if I was right when I wrote about the latest being decidedly uncharacteristic of them.

The answer is, New York Minute is a masterpiece in comparison ROFL. Is this an infomercial for the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas (goddammit, I can’t believe I remembered the name of the place they stayed, lol)? It would only be a success if that were its raison-d’être. The twins come across really bad here: one moment in particular sticks in my mind. One of the twins, god knows which, really wants the Hot Guy. They’re at some kind of to-do and she asks her sister, did you see the Hot Guy? And there he suddenly is, on the stage, singing a song, which he dedicates to her. She barely reacts to this, keeping the same standard issue smile on her face as she turns from her sister to the guy singing his heart out for her onstage. It’s creepy. I want Meg Ryan end-of-You’ve-Got-Mail hurt in someone’s eyes when they’re given attention like that!

But there’s no criticism for movies like this. You can’t make movies for toddlers and tweens and then try to explain the real conflicted nature of such emotions. Obviously not one I’ll watch again :-p

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