There’s a lot about this Olsen Twins movie that makes it better than most, though not quite as polished as New York Minute. Again, the story is very similar, though there does seem to be more reason for their visit to London than rich parents who just want them out of the way: this time it’s a school trip, a model United Nations conference. The main Cute Guy^TM is played by Jesse Spencer, who I instantly recognised from somewhere – he looks a lot like Ryan Philippe, in fact – and a quick look at the IMDb shows he used to play Billy in Neighbours, and was the British rock singer in Uptown Girls. Though his British accent, like all the accents, attitudes, etc in this movie, is highly stylised (this London is the Movie London where everyone either speaks Posh or Cockney, where everyone drinks tea, and nobody in their right mind calls the bathroom anything but “the loo”...), he’s actually a pretty good actor and he makes that tough aspect of all Olsen Twins movies a little easier to sit through.

Also very cool is a small subplot with the characters dubbed “the third wheels” – the minor characters making up the Twins’ school team – and a cute little romance that develops between two of them. They sort of reminded me of Lindsay Lohan’s brilliant friends in Mean Girls. There’s also a very funny scene towards the end that you would expect must have been done before in a more respectable romantic comedy: one Twin is expecting to meet the Cute Guy^TM in front of Buckingham Palace; while standing next to one of the guards she mutters to herself about his not showing, and then walks away; later, the Cute Guy^TM appears next to the same guard, “I know you can’t talk… but did you see this girl…?” and the guard suddenly sharply turns his head with this urgent look in his eyes. The movie has a great soundtrack, too. Not bad at all.

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