Matt Greene The biggest hurdle with this story is buying the conceit that these two adults would've made the decision to separate these twins in the first place. Otherwise, it's just delightful. Almost beat-for-beat identical to the likable 90s remake, only better because the humor doesn't project as much; it lets the audience work a bit more. Effectively funny and fairly moving, it's classic family entertainment with a great anchoring performance by Mills at the center.

dweilermg-1 I saw original 1961 Parent Trap as a 12 year old pre-teen who fell in love with Hayley Mills. Year later I saw 1998 remake with Lindsay Lohan as the dad of a young daughter this time I saw it from a different perspective. The original version (Hayley Mills) is indeed a great Disney classic but the remake (Lindsay Lohan) improves on the original story and is also great. The Chessy and Martin characters indeed added a new dimension to the story.

Realrockerhalloween The parent trap based on the book is about a girl named Susan becoming the rival of Sharon while at summer camp. What makes its odd is both girls look identical, know stories about the other's parent and find out they have been separated by divorce.This time played by Haley Mills, a gifted young address who made this into a box office success and launched her acting career. The fabulous Marean O'Hara and Brian Keith were a delight as the kooky parents to the twins playing off one another anytime they're on screen.The humor was refreshing as its in the arguments the couple has, the twins pranks or fight at camp and the side characters shenanigans making it a memorable experience. I never laughed so hard in a long time.It does drag in places after an exciting first hour as the twins perform a musical number only to eat up screen time and many scenes are spent talking repetitively about the same problems through out.The new love interest wasn't as evil or conniving as the 90s version Mar and made you think how good ole dad couldn't see right through the charade sooner.Another flaw was the slit screen was kinda obvious in certain scenes taking the realism out of focus for a few moments at a time.Still it was a nice way to see a nice, clean, relaxing film.

Lee Eisenberg For the most part, I watched "The Parent Trap" just so that I could heckle it like Mike, Servo and Crow do the movies that Dr. Forrester and TV's Frank send them on "Mystery Science Theater 3000". I'm most proud of referring to the woman with the surname Robinson as the character in "The Graduate".But what this movie really represents is what was thought of as "acceptable" and "decent" entertainment. Before too long, the Beatles arrived, causing a torrent of movies and music that old-school people didn't consider "acceptable" or "decent". It got to the point where the "unacceptable" and "indecent" stuff got accepted as a general part of popular culture (good old parable of the leopards!). As in my parents' era, so in my era. "Acceptable" and "decent" culture used to be movies like "Home Alone", but soon it was "American Beauty".The point is, this is the sort of movie at which I roll my eyes. I see that there was a remake starring Lindsay Lohan. We all see what a wreck Lohan became.