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I was prepared to hate this movie, but I didn't. In fact, I kind of liked it. This variation on the Parent Trap storyline kept me engaged and, dare I say, entertained. I even found myself laughing at some of the cheesy jokes. What has happened to me? I enjoyed an Olsen Twins movie!

I can certainly see why the critics didn't like it, but I think all the reasons they don't like it are the same things that give this movie its charm. I find it too cute not to enjoy.

I stumbled on this family film while channel surfing the other night. I happened to catch it right from the opening titles. The Olsen girls had me hooked from the first minutes. I couldn't stop watching this movie until the final credits rolled. Having raised two girls I was particularly tuned into the Olsen girls. I was blown away by how cute and funny and bright they were. And I thought the love story though predictable was tastefully handled and fairly intelligent. All in all a most enjoyable experience.

I couldn't help but compare to the parent trap (it's the exact same premise, except everyone just decides to call it 'weird' that the two girls are identical). But it really works regardless, it's a cute, fun, mindless movie. Kirstie alley really shines, she's funny and charming and had a great relationship with the kids. A fun movie!

Maybe this remake of classic Disney's "The Parents trap" is the best film of these twins, at least it's a good family entertainment. I should say however that it is the last good work of these girls, their latest stuff are really unbearable, like "Getting There", for example.

It is movie for children. It is funny. Romantic. Kristie Alley and Steve Guttenberg are fit to each other. It is a good summer time movie that watch with your child.

Very enjoyable film! I watched it back in 1996 and I loved this film. The Olsen twins made great job the same like Kirsty Alley and Guttenberg. After this movie I became a fan of Kirtsy Alley and Olsen twins. One of their best movies. Since then I got it on the tape. I still watch it sometimes and it brings me back to the childhood when I was a kid of 10 years old.

It is a simple film about twins that meet and want to change the worlds. Lots of laugh, funny situations and quotes. A summer vacation begin. Nice shots, very good script. A movie to learn from. This film is very suitable for kids. Good actors, cast, screenplay and action! A movie for whole family!

Seriously.

It reminded me a lot to "the parent trap" from disney AT FIRST.

Because most of the time there were a lot of similarities, but at the end the vibe was totally different.

But I have to say that I really enjoyed and it was my first time watching it after tiktok recommended it to me.. yea, I know, my tiktok is very well trained to recommend me nice movies.

The energy of the characters was really healing for me and the way it made me laugh very much was inmaculate, it must be a fun one to watch with family or friends, I have to say that I absolutely love this kind of movies, they make my day, totally.

What do you get when you take two parts Prince and the Pauper, one part The Parent Trap and throw in the Olsen Twins? It Takes Two of course!

This story starts with the very different lives of two identical strangers (Mary-Kate & Ashley): Alyssa, who is the lonely daughter of a wealthy widower (Steve Guttenberg), and Amanda, an orphan with a "street" attitude who is looked after by her...social worker? caretaker? Diane (Kirstie Alley). For the summer, Amanda and her friends from the orphanage are sent to a camp for disadvantaged children, which just happens to be across the lake from Alyssa's enormous summer home. By chance, the two girls run into each other (literally) in the woods and discover they look exactly the same. After a few minutes of conversation they decide to switch places because...why not?! Now they both must deal with the other's problems--Alyssa struggling with Amanda's adoption to an awful family, and Amanda doing her best to get rid of the gold-digging b!tch Alyssa's father is engaged to. While the girls deal with that, Diane and Alyssa's dad meet and begin a romance. So, will Amanda be able to stop the wedding? Will Alyssa be able to get out of the awful adoptive parents' home? Will anyone believe they are actually someone else? Will Diane and Alyssa's dad get together?

This movie is quite bad. As a child I loved it, but that's purely because I loved the Olsen twins/Full House. Everything and everyone in this film is an old cliché that was taken from other books and films that did it much better. There is literally nothing new or interesting about the plot line of this film. The acting also leaves something to be desired. Steve Guttenberg, Kirstie Alley, and Philip Bosco as Vicenzo the butler actually did a decent job with what they were handed, but it was still sub-par. More than anything this movie demonstrated something the world seemed to have missed for many years: Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen cannot act for their lives. People forget that they became famous on...not so much acting, but on being cute and essentially being themselves on camera. This is the first role they had where they were not Michelle Tanner or just..."twins" (i.e. themselves)! Neither of them are able to pull off either a high or low class NYC accent and demeanor without sounding like they are pulling it out with a rope. In fact, if I had seen this without knowing who they were, I would think they had never even acted in a school play, nonetheless been "acting" since they were infants. Also, there is something else about this movie that really irritates me. That is, the use of the word "orphan" and Amanda being from an "orphanage". I don't know what films' preoccupation on these anachronistic terms are, but there had not been an orphanage in NYC for over 30 years when this film was made. Not only that, but the term "orphan" has also not been used for a very long time. The fact they are constantly using the word "orphan" in this movie drives me up a wall.

All in all this film is pathetic. It's boring, uninteresting, and has some painful acting on the part of the Olsen twins. Some young children may like it, but you're better off getting The Parent Trap if you must sit through it with them.

This is a great movie to watch when you're having a bad day, especially if you watched it as a kid. Along with Passport to Paris, this was one of the Olsen twins' movies that my sisters and I watched the most, over and over and over....so many great quotable one-liners in this (for kids and adults) Plus, Kirstie Alley and Steve Guttenberg are hilarious and very lovable!

The movie is about two little girls who try to get a jerk of a fiancée gone and get Diane (Kristie Alley) and Roger Callaway (Steve Guttenburg) married. Wait, so Amanda wants to get adopted by Diane, so that makes her Alyssa's stepsister. Yup, something we've seen before, and also predictable.

I do not believe that It Takes Two really knows what it wants to be, the story has pacing issues, with the movie most of the time being a light-hearted comedy with some dramatic parts.

The idea is based on THE PARENT TRAP, but except the kids in there are sisters.

The movie is just a bit too saccharine for me, there could've been more tension going on instead of the dishonest kids turning what could've been a thrilling remake into a sappy romance. And also more development on Roger and Diane's relationship.

The movie has some absurd and annoying acting from the Olsen twins, but they seemed to have gave out some great performances for their young ages in their own way. But the best performances go to Kristie Alley, though I think the director could've had been better with her. Now, don't get me wrong, the movie was pretty interesting, I still love the Olsen twins but they could've been in better projects.

Such a fun film! I remember watching this film as a kid and I remember how fun and cute it was. I love Mary-Kate and Ashley and there is amazing chemistry between them and all of the adults in the film. This film is such a cute and cheesy film and I consider it a classic.

How I loathe these romantic comedies...

The only one who could have made this movie any worse is Owen Wilson, the king of senseless romantic comedies.

The comedy is not very intelligent. There are loads of falling jokes who are supposed to be funny.

The jokes are bad, and the story shines with its inconsistency.

Be honest people. Do these films ever work? I don't even like the concept. I have yet to see a genuinely intelligent and funny romantic. comedy.

Is it just me or ought America to be ashamed?

Family entertainment in films has taken all sorts of forms. There's movies that involve a mix of live-action and animation. There's ones that involve fantasy and others involving more mature themes. The one thing though that tends to fascinate people in general are the concept of identical twins. There's just something about two people who look and sound exactly alike and can sometimes be completely different. However, the similarities can overlap greatly in personality and sometimes even psychologically despite most thinking it is only cosmetic. One of the most recognizable set of twins to come out of Hollywood was Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, also known as the Olsen Twins. If it weren't for the Full House TV show in the 1980s, it's hard to say how popular they would have become. By the time this film came out, they were practically ending that series.

The story is about two twins living completely separate and different lives. Amanda (Mary-Kate Olsen) is a down on her luck orphan. She just can't seem to find a good set of parents to adopt her with the help from her sponsor Diane (Kirstie Alley). Then there's Alyssa (Ashley Olsen), the daughter of a successful business man Roger (Steve Guttenberg). By chance, one day Amanda takes a trip with her fellow orphans to the Callaway camp that Roger lets others use. Little do any of these four individuals know that their lives will be turned upside down when the twins discover each other and switch places. In a way, this is like The Parent Trap (1961) and its remake of 1998 although sharing a closer resemblance to the Prince and the Pauper. The script was written by Deborah Dean Davis known for penning a couple of episodes to various TV shows like Magnum P. I. and Knight Rider.

This is also Davis' only theatrical film credit, which is sort of surprising because this is also one of her last credits to date. For viewers who have seen many movies before this one, will not be that new in terms of ideas. The predictability is very standard. Two twins aren't happy with their current situations so they devise a plan to change that and most can anticipate where that leads to. Further making that more blatantly apparent is the reason Alyssa makes her plan with Amanda. Her mom has long since gone and daddy Roger has found himself a new woman Clarice (Jane Sibbett) who is clearly there for other reasons. It's just plain as day, when it's been seen, it's known how the narrative will be executed. The directing from Andy Tennant doesn't improve it by that much either.

Tennant would direct a year later Fools Rush In (1997) and even later Hitch (2005). From how the characters are written though, the main ones are still likable in their own way. Kirstie Alley has the very mom-like attitude towards Amanda and that makes her significant. Most remember Alley from her role in Cheers. Steve Guttenberg as Alyssa's father is also friendly. He's doesn't come off as a jerk in any way, just very blind to his flaws. Guttenberg is well known for his parts in the Police Academy (1984) franchise. As if anything needs to be said about the Olsen twins, their acting is fine. They don't come across annoying either. Jane Sibbett plays her part well as the woman who hangs with Roger for other obvious reasons. And there's a butler Vincenzo (Philip Bosco) who also had some parts in other movies like Three Men and a Baby (1987) and Shaft (2000).

The chemistry between actors all seem to work out okay. There are some moments where things are taken too nonchalantly or various scenes seem over the top to be taken so seriously. But this does add to the humor. Filming the project was Kenneth Zunder. Having a mixed history of working on TV shows and movies, Zunder's work is fine for this okay movie. The shots taken of the camp area and Callaway mansion are very spacious to look at. Zunder's best credits belong to Chicago Hope and Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. Lastly the musical score wasn't that memorable. Mainly because the score wasn't that prevalent. Composed by Sherman Foote the music behind the scenes are just sprinkled throughout while most of what is heard is the soundtrack. Really not that interesting.

Aside from nonexistent music and a rather straight forward script that makes it quite transparent in story, it's okay to watch. It's a nice throwback to various actors people have come to enjoy and remember. The characters are written for each actor well, which gives good chemistry and the camerawork is serviceable.

this has to be one of the worst movies i have ever seen, how could you people think that this movie is 5? this is very sad and makes me uneasy about these user ratings. 5?!?!?!?!?! this movie, first of all, had an unrealistic scenario from the beginning. IDENTICAL STRANGERS?!?!?!?!?! how is that possible. the writing is horrendous, and the olsons don't even do anything, they just walk around and see if the two people are going to make out or not. plus, I'm pretty sure they would get their asses sued if they flew a helicopter in and took the girl away from her new LEGALIZED parents, i didn't even watch this movie really, my sister was watching it on TV and i could not believe the little that i saw and i am ashamed that i saw the little i did see

The Olsen Twins take "The Parent Trap" to a new level as they agree to switch places to see how the other half lives. As the stars, they set the tone for the movie and keep it light-hearted throughout the film, with good and evil on both sides of the tracks waiting for them. Guttenberg and Alley turn in excellent performances, as well.

This movie is better than the original movie with Brian Keith and Maureen O'Hara, in that they get actual twins to play the girls (although the Disney studios did a great job with Hayley Mills in the starring role). The big difference is that the Olsen twins don't play sisters, but are actual strangers who decide to hook the two adult stars up, one the father, who's a company mogul who made it big in the cell phone industry, and the other, a case worker for Social Services in an orphanage that spends a week at a summer camp built by deceased woman who was married to the cell phone mogul. When you throw in a gold-digging débutante about to catch her man, comedy ensues that even the most heavy-hearted adult can't help but enjoy.

It wouldn't be fair to compare this to 1961 without going the other way and comparing it to the film of the same name released three years later than this particular film in 1998. To be honest, I can't see myself comparing it to Lindsay Lohan, because there's a big difference between her and the Olsen Twins in more than just numbers. Well, maybe numbers DO make the difference, because I give this film 8 out of 10, but Lohan only gets 5 out of 10 (and I even like Dennis Quaid, as an actor). And I can't say anything nice about Lohan because I think she's...

Well, my mother always told me, "If you can't say anything nice about someone, keep your trap shut!"

I grew up in the 90s where a lot was happening. One thing that happened were the Olsen Twins. They were the Hannah Montana of the 90s. Their fame really began with the dull show called Full House. (Go check out my review for that show).

Then they were plastered in various movies and all over the place. Only a couple of their movies like It Takes Two are actually tolerable. I was looking through the "More Like This" section and I saw so many movies that they were in that I didn't even hear about before now. So I have to ask why were these 2 so popular and where the heck did they go?

In addition, people use to talk how all cute they were. And if these are actual girls, then they were never all that good-looking.

Anyways...It Takes Two is a family movie about 2 people meeting each other and they have identical children then silly stuff happen then the 2 get married and, they lived happily ever after. Yeah...waste of time.

Nevertheless, during the 90s watching this movie I enjoyed it because I didn't know any better. It's just the nostalgia of the 90s is why this movie get a positive rating, otherwise this movie is a waste of time just like all the other movies they were in that no one cared about.

Amanda Lemmon (Mary-Kate Olsen) is a tomboy orphan. She loves her case worker Diane Barrows (Kirstie Alley) but Diane is single and unable to adopt her. The orphans go to Camp Callaway which is set up by billionaire Roger Callaway (Steve Guttenberg) on the other side of the lake. By chance, Roger is the single father to Amanda's double Alyssa Callaway (Ashley Olsen). Roger is often absent and he surprises Alyssa by bringing back mean-spirited girlfriend Clarice Kensington (Jane Sibbett). Alyssa is further shocked by news of their impending marriage. When Alyssa and Amanda meet, they decide to switch places. After Clarice leaves on a trip, the girls agree to bring Roger and Diane together.

The plot is simplistic switcharoo and conveniently silly. In most of these movie, the twin roles are played by one actress. There is no denying that the Olsen twins are very charismatic. This is generally harmless and predictable. It's great for the little ones. It's way too predictable for older kids.

It takes two is an amazing and funny story about two identical girls, yet so different, Alyssa Callaway a rich girl, and Amanda Lemmon a orphan kid, together the perfect match. They meet each other at the orphan camp and decides to shift places. Alyssa Callaway gets adopted and unfortunately is Alyssas father about to marry another woman, and they make all the effort for that to fail, instead they try to lead the orphan camp leader, Diane Barrows and Alyssas father together, if that will succeed you're just going to have to watch the movie.

I think it was a really good movie made by the Olsen twins, amazing how good they can though they are so young.

I give it *** of ***** stars

I have actually never watched the 1995 family movie "It Takes Two" before. Sure, I am familiar with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen from the "Full House" series, and do know that they made an abundance of movies as well. But I never got around to watching it. At least not before now in 2024.

Truth be told, I wasn't really harboring much of any grand expectations to the movie, but I still opted to give writer Deborah Dean Davis and director Andy Tennant a fair chance. And it turned out that "It Takes Two" was actually an enjoyable family movie. Sure, it was a pretty straightforward, if not actually generic, switched-roles kind of family comedy, but there was just something entertaining and enjoyable about the storyline. Predictable plot? You betcha. But it still played out nicely.

There were some fun and enjoyable moments in the storyline, and I were genuinely entertained throughout the course of the movie.

The acting in "It Takes Two" was good. Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen do carry the movie quite nicely. And I will say that Kirstie Alley and Steve Guttenberg were nicely cast for the movie, and they spruced up the movie quite a lot. The movie also has Jane Sibbett, Philip Bosco and Lawrence Dane on the cast list.

Don't write off this 1995 movie just because it has twin girls Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen in it. It is actually a wholesome and entertaining movie to watch for the entire family. This is actually quite a feel-good kind of movie. And I will say that I had definitely been missing out on something here.

My rating of "It Takes Two" lands on a six out of ten stars.

This is as silly as it can get. You have to be in the right mindset for it. I do like silly at times too, but there are things here that just don't work. Now yes the twins here are only 8 years or so ... but there have been way better performances in that age. On the other hand, was a better performance needed for the type of movie this is? Yes their sister is the way better actress as we found out (Elizabeth Olsen, in case you don't know, though right now with Wandavision and all the MCU things going on, I'd be surprised if you never heard of her) ... but that is not the issue at hand here.

So we also get Kirstie Alley and Steve Guttenberg and one actress some people may recognize from Friends. Comically evil they say ... ridiculous is another word you could use. But again, it is a matter of your mindset ... I've never seen someone run down the aisle as fast as we get to see in this movie. Just don't take any moral lessons from this: no food fights (what a waste), no stealing horse and carriages either ... or whatever else is deemed as "funny" but is actually not in the real world ... yes I know this is just a movie. You may find certain things funnier than I did - that's how it works.