New York Minute
Review by Clint Morris
 No longer content with
headlining unremitting small screen ventures, popular twin set
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen invade the big screen in New York
Minute.
A mish-mash of Ferris Buellers Day
Off (1986) and some of those small-screen efforts the girls
has made previously, the flick centres on 17 year-old-sisters, who
despite being chalk and cheese, have to stick together as they outrun a
truant officer in New York City.
The Olsen Twins have come a long way since
playing the cutesy tots of sitcom “Full House”.
For starters, they’re now 18, not 8 months,
and thanks to a range of top-selling direct to video movies, TV series
and other miscellaneous merchandise, they’re about the richest two
twins – heck, youngsters – in the world.
New York Minute mightn’t
be their first attempt at a major studio pic – that honour belongs to
early 90’s blunder It Takes Two in which they
co-starred with Kirstie Alley and Steve Guttenberg – but it’s
definitely a step up from what they’re use to.
Firstly, the girls are all grown up. Looking
all of their 18 years, they use the film as some sort of billboard to
let everyone know – especially those that still think of them as the
baby Michelle on the aforesaid sitcom - that they’re now an adult force
to be reckoned with.
And from the skimpy outfits they get around
in – they seem to be wearing nothing but a towel for a large part of
the film – and racier themes – boys, snakes in showers, getting about
in the buff – they at least succeed in that. There’s also been
significantly more money spent on this film for a start, as co-star
Eugene Levy’s price-tag would’ve risen slightly since American
Pie for a start.
What the twins don’t succeed in doing though
is entertaining the audience as a whole. Okay, so the 11 year-old-girl
pack in the front row might be entertained, and so might be the 15 year
old boy looking for a meagre shufti of Olsen leg, but other than that,
there’s nothing really here to offer anyone.
Even the cutesy blonde twins stern fan base
is likely to see through the translucent garbage of a plot and realise
the girls are pretty much working off the cuff. Sure, Mary-Kate and
Ashley are quite amiable and even palpably gifted, but you’d think they
would have chosen their first major studio ‘tweeny’ effort a little
more vigilantly.
They probably could’ve done without human
ball-of-yarn Jack Osbourne in their film too.
2.5 out of 5
New
York Minute
Australian release: Thursday July 1st
Cast: Mary-Kate Olsen, Ashley Olsen, Eugene Levy, Andy
Richter, Darrell Hammond, Jared Padalecki, Riley Smith, Jack Osbourne.
Director: Dennie Gordon.
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