The Parent Trap DVD

Advantages: Excellent cast, plot and a brilliant soundtrack
Disadvantages: No Extras

The Plot The movie begins with a couple getting married on the QE-2 ocean liner, traveling from London to New York. Fast forward 11 years and 9 months and we are at New England camp Walden for girls. There two girls meet and takes a instant dislike to each other because the are look identical but they are so very different on the inside. Hallie a cool girl from Napa Valley California lives with her dad Nick, Chessy her nanny / maid and Sammy her ...
...her Grandpa Charles and Martin the butler. Each girl starts playing planks on the other, and after on plank that goes to far and trashes the cabin up they are sent to the isolation cabin. After a rocky start they get to know each other and realize they have things in common, they finally find out that they are in fact identical twins, thanks to the only picture of their parent they haven't seen. They come up with a great idea and that is to swap ... Read review

Advantages: Funny , Good storyline , Different
Disadvantages: none

The parent Trap The parent Trap produced in 1998 is an extrodinary movie! It stars to identical twins Annie and Halle (Both played by Lindsay Lohan) who are unaware that each of them exists. Eleven year old Annie James lives in Londin with her mother , Elizabeth , who designs wedding gowns.She is a rich single mother who lives with her father Charles and their butler Martin.Annie has never met her father. Halle Parker also eleven , lives in the ...
...dad , but has the help of their kind-of-like 'butler' Chesse to also care for Halle. When the girls are sent to a summer camp in America.When the girls first meet , they are rivals and each girls gang is playing pranks on eachother. When Halle and Annie are sent to isolation where they will have to stay together alone until the end of camp because of their bad behaviour.While the girls are there , they become really close , and soon discover a ... Read review

Advantages: A real feel good family film
Disadvantages: rated guidance so not for the tiddlers.

...book written by Erich Kästner. The original was a Disney film directed by David swift. Hayley Mills played the twins, Maureen O'Hara the mother and Brian Keith played the father. Because of the lack of technology at the time, most of it was filmed with body doubles when the 'twins' were needed in shots together. In the original, 1 twin lives in LA and the other in Chicago. The remake is the film I will concentrate on. It is also Disney but directed ...
...and Freaky Friday) who plays the twins Hallie and Annie. Dennis Quaid plays the dad and Natasha Richardson plays the mother. THE PLOT ~ If you don’t want to know, scroll away now!!! The film begins with pictures of a perfect marriage, love, fireworks, kissing on a boat. Then the parents split and take 1 child each with them. The dad lives in Northern California with Hallie, and the mum lives in London with Annie. The twins were separated as babies ... Read review

Advantages: Good clean family entertainment, no sex, no violence
Disadvantages: child actors!!

Let's Get together and compare the two films.....Parent Trap l998 and the Original 1961 version which I saw as a child. Hayley Mills starred in the 1961 version playing her part charismatically, albeit whilst wearing a horrendous wig throughout most of the film. The parents here are Maureen O'Hara as mum Maggie living with twin one in Boston New England and Brian Keith playing Mitch the father who lives with twin two on a magnificent ranch in California. ...
...efforts are thwarted however with the realisation that Mitch is about to remarry the local golddigger Vicki. The twins do all they can to sabotage the relationship and without spoiling the plot too much......I can tell you that all's well that ends well. The l998 version follows much along the same lines except that in this case the father owns a Californian Vineyard and the mother lives in London, England. The girls here are ll and are played by ... Read review

Advantages: Good Family Entertainment.
Disadvantages: None.

...with her father in California. The two had been separated at birth when the parents divorced. At the end of the Summer Camp Annie went to California and Hallie went to London. The two girls scheme to bring their parents back together and in the process also stop their father marrying the money grabbing Meredith Blake. The girls are played brilliantly by Lindsay Lohan and it is filmed so well that it is easy to believe that there really are twins. ...
...This is not the type of film that I would normally watch, but my wife was watching it whilst I was reading. Before long I had put down the newspaper and become engrossed in this film. It is very well made. Of course a lot of it is very predictable, but it is put together in a very entertaining and funny way. The film is advertised as a children’s movie, but this shouldn’t stop adults watching it as there are a few lessons here from the ... Read review

Advantages: Very Funny and Enjoyable
Disadvantages: None its that good

...I am writing my review on the first made "Parent Trap" that was made in 1961 with Hayley Mills (Played in Pollyanna), it was redone in 1998 and was played by Lindsay Lohan but the original is the best one by far. About the film Its about twin girls who meet unexpectedly for the first time at a summer camp, Sharon McKendick is a well brought up girl (quite posh) who was brought up with her mother, where as Susan Evers is more laid back and was brought up by her dad. The girls take an instant dislike to each other at the camp and are soon at each other throats with the help of their friends, the staff at the camp notice the tension and make them share an accommodation together, it is there that they soon discover that they are in fact twins and was separated at birth. They are determined to never be separated again and make... Read review

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Advantages: None
Disadvantages: The Whole Film

...It's not often I will outright call a film bad. But this is terrible. As a fan of Lohan since "Parent Trap" I bought this DVD on a whim, hoping it would be as good as other Lohan films such as Freaky Friday and Mean Girls. I'm not sure when I've been so disappointed. This film is weak in characters, plot, dialogue and quite possibly every aspect down to the costume and hair styles! I sat through as much of it as I could, not sure whether I could stand to watch any more, apparently my inner conscience became unconscious, and I fell asleep. When I did decide to watch the end, I wasn't surprised to see the film had an ultimately bad ending when it had started out so poorly. One of the worst parts of this film had to be the fake flowers and use of computer animation, which just made the film appear childish even if it is aimed at children... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: great film
Disadvantages: none

...and directed by Nancy Meyers. One of the DVD extras is a very interesting commentary by her which is definitely worth watching. She has also written and directed 'The Parent Trap' and has directed 'What Women Want' among others. The other main DVD extra is a behind the scenes look which is quite entertaining in it's own way. So overall this is a very entertaining escapist sort of film that is great for watching on a cold winter night with a nice glass of wine and a box of tissues. It's probably more of a woman's film, although having said that, my husband did watch it with me and enjoyed it in his own way! At the moment it can be bought very cheaply on Amazon for only £3.98 which I think is an absolute bargain!... Read review

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