The Parent Trap

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Summary: Great, just like the old version
Review: This movie is good, just like the older version is. I love both versions. It's probably one of the few remakes where I actually like both versions. I love Martin in this version. He is so funny, although he should never wear a speado again.

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Summary: Improvment!
Review: This movie was a great improvment over the old one, it was funnier, livelier, more interesting for children my age because it is updated.The acting is better and it is all-around a better version of the movie than the original. I think LL did a great job with her acting she (they) was (were) probably my favorite Character(s) I also like Jessie. But I thought this movie was a lot more exciting, and livelier acting than the first one.

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Summary: The parent trap
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Summary: Better than the original
Review: The original was great, this one is better.Lindsay Lohan was better than Hayley Mills, Dennis Quaid was better than Brian Keith, however, of course, no one is better than Maureen O'Hara.

Both the original and this remake are good editions to any family library.

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Summary: As good as the first!!!
Review: This remake of the original Parent Trap was no disappointment. In fact, and some might disagree, I think that it is just as good. I absolutely love this movie!
Annie and Haley are twins who are seperated at birth by their divorced parents. They each grow up never knowing that they have a twin sister - until a freak meet up at camp. They switch places so that they can find out what they have been missing with the other parent and then devise a plan to get their parents back together.
Great movie, great cast, great acting - and the script holds up very true to the original. Great for a family movie night!

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Summary: This happening in the 1980's?
Review: I think the idea of separated twins makes some sense in the original "Parent Trap." because its possible there were more "family secret." type arrangements at the time those twins would have been born, but when you update it to the mid-1980's, (when Annie and Hallie would have been babies) it makes no sense! By then, far more people realized the importance of siblings, particulaly twins, to one another, not to mention parents and children needing each other.

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Summary: The Best Remake Of A Movie
Review: I thouhgt that The Parent Trap was the best Walt Disney Movie I've ever seen. I love Lindsay Lohan who she played Hallie Parker/Annie James. I don't know how you guys had Lindsay Lohan to play Hallie & Annie at the same time. That was good that you guys did the remake of The Parent Trap Movie from 1961 & 1998.

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Summary: Okay and Fun But With a Few Bad Parts
Review: This Parent Trap is fun! I liked it. But, the bad parts were 1. The wine: The mom gets totally drunk on the airplane flight and their family is wine crazy!!! 2. The way Meredith dressed at the camp out: Sheesh! Can't anyone dress modestly anymore? 3. One of the Ten Commandments: Thou shalt not take thy Lord's name in vain. Everyone kept shreiking 'Oh, My God!'4. The Camp Scenes: The poker games and gambling are ENOUGH! The music that goes with it is even worse!Also, getting someone to go outside nude is vulgar. Of course, it did only show her face and sillhouette.
With everything said and done, the rest of the movie is okay. The girls are a little sarcastic, but the pranks pulled on Meredith are funny! The camp pranks are pretty good, though. The one with Hayley Mills is good, and this one is too. But, Maureen O' Hara and Hayley Mills were quite a team!

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Summary: The Best Remake I've Ever Seen
Review: The original version of The Parent Trap was, in my opinion, the best movie to come out of Disney. Therefore, I wasn't very optimistic about the remake. So many classics have been remade disastrously that I tend to avoid them if possible. My curiosity got the better of me with Parent Trap, and I must say I was very pleasantly surprised. The remake has a terrific cast and a great soundtrack and updates the story in a completely believable way. Inevitably remakes are always compared to the originals, so in comparison, I won't say I like the new verion better than the original, because I don't. As good as Lindsey Lohan is, she lacks the star quality that Hayley Mills radiated. Lohan is possibly the better actress of the two, but Mills' performance is still captivating 40-some years later. I doubt that Lohan's will hold up as well. Dennis Quaid is serviceable in the Brian Keith role, but Natasha Richardson, though charming, does not have the ravishing beauty nor the spot-on comic timing of Maureen O'Hara. Wisely, Leo G. Carroll's role in the original wasn't even recast here--who could match him? Before you fans of the new version hit that "NO" button, read on...

Although the basic plot is the same, all of the characters names except one and all the locales and particulars have been changed. Joanna Barnes, who played the conniving Vicki in the original, plays her character's mother in the new version--still named Vicki. This leads me to suspect that she is the same character--the Vicki of the original gets married to a rich man, has a daughter named Merrideth, and raises her to be a gold digger just like mom--making the new Parent Trap more of a sequel than a remake. Far-fetched? Yes, but in Disney-land anything is possible. Plus, by considering the new Parent Trap a sequel, I don't have to compare them. There's room for both versions on my DVD shelf. The original--still my favorite--and the remake/sequel--a funny, warm, and entertaining film--running a close second and quite possibly the best remake ever made!

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Summary: Five Stars for The Parent Trap, BUT. . .
Review: This is a terrific movie with a first-rate case headed by talented Lindsay Lohan. My only disappointment is the DVD presentation with no director's commentary and no extras. I also own the laserdisc version of this movie which had commentary, Lindsay's screen tests, clips showing how they turned Lindsay into twins, and deleted scenes (Hallie meets the Queen in London!).

Are we going to have to wait years later for a special edition? I know that Disney films are marketed as family movies and that perhaps younger children aren't as interested in the extras, but I think it would be great for them to see some info on how the movie was made. The Emperor's New Groove (another entertaining Disney film), on the other hand, did come with commentary by the animators--go figure.