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Pretty much the only reason this movie holds up better than others is because it was a remake that honored the original. The original Parent Trap from 1961 held up well also. The Prince and the Pauper trope holds some real appeal on it's own so a more family oriented version just makes sense. This movie is mostly identical to the former version sparing some more modern settings and different shots. How the couple got together, married and divorced in like a week... and somehow had kids in that same week wasn't there and it was a change that I think just wasn't thought through.
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Lindsey's performance is top notch. She basically plays four characters: Hallie, Annie, Hallie as Annie, Annie as Hallie. Wild.
Yeah, she was talented. And then some ahole gave her drugs.
She was super talented for her age! It was incredible
Yeah this reminds me of Helena bonham Carter as well where in the Harry Potter moves Hermione Polyjuices as Bellatrix to get into gringotts. So you have Helena Bonham Carter pretending to be Emma Watson pretending to be Hermione Granger pretending to be Bellatrix Lestrange accessing her Gringitts Vault to get Hufflepuffs Horcrux. Wild.
Mandela effect thing here: for many years I remembered the two girls being played by the Olsen twins
That’s because of “It Takes Two,” in which the Olsen twins play doppelgängers manipulating their parents/guardians to fall in love.
The parent trap taught me that gaslighting is okay if it's for a quirky reason
it's advice i got a lot of use out of.
This movie isnt gaslighting you’re crazy
and so is throwing a flesh light joke if meyers has anything to do with it
@@lando6420this comment paired with ur Deadpool pfp is killing me
Ah, an important lesson to learn in life. Good for you!
The butler was never trying to be creepy or weird towards her, hes been in the family for years and that's the only father figure shed ever known. Ofcourse he would harbor the same feelings to someone you took care of pretty much your whole life. Dont look into it like that. I thought their relationship was adorable.
I agree. It's implied with both Chessie and the butler (his name escapes me at the moment) that they have been with the family for YEARS at this point, most likely helping raise each girl (since both parents look like they have fairly demanding careers). Its kind of nice. Like, even if the parents weren't together, you still got this image of them having a solid family unit while growing up.
@@stephaniewozny3852 exactly!! Honestly the original and the remake are great movies I loved the whole dynamic/relationship between Hal and chessi and Annie :) Oh and his name is Martin! My favorite! I have that whole handshake memorized lol
@@PaulieLauraXombie1331 thank you! Yes, Martin!
I think Alex was joking, I don't think he thinks the man is creepy
I think he’s just kidding
i have a twin (identical) and me and her went to a boarding camp and we pretended to be strangers, we even had the camp staff change my last name to my moms maiden name..it was HILARIOUS when we told everyone...on the last day of camp
Were your parents in on it? Also that's hilarious
r/thathappened
Nobody noticed? 😭
I remember as a kid being absolutely MIND BLOWN when I found out Hallie and Annie were both played by Lindsey Lohan and not an actual set of twins 🤯
me too
Same lol
Same here!!
"It's controversial because it takes jobs away from actors who look like that actor!"
it reminds of that Liv and Maddie the Disney channel show. I thought they were actually real-life twin. I was mind blowing that it was only Dove Cameron. But how do they even make it look like they have an actual twin behind scene?
I can't believe that nobody ever calls out Nick or Elizabeth for lying to their twin daughters their entire lives, and having everyone they know continue that charade. Had they not been found out, they would probably have NEVER come clean.
To be fair it is based from a German book from the like 40s?
You could do that back then
@@alias704 The double Lottie?
When I saw the original parent trap movie (this is the remake). I always thought it was messed up. It’s sorta the kids fairy tale of uniting divorced parents. Which is mostly unrealistic at it’s core. Someone just wanted to write a whole ‘identical strangers’ plot with kids an this was the result. Twins aren’t interchangeable. I doubt a mom or dad would just go on for 11 years like a whole nother child did not exist.
Not to mention child abandonment. These kids would have so much resentment.
@@TheDawnofVanlife i felt like this was kind of the point. The kids in The Parent Trap think their parents are so cool and love them so much, but in reality the housekeeper and the butler(and the grandfather) are the ones who discovered that the girls had switched before the parents did. Which speaks about how the girls aren't actually close with their parents as much as they are close with the housekeeper and the butler.
As a kid of divorced parents, this movie gave me way too much hope. 😂
Same
Sorry to hear that lmao
Lol same
im sorry about that
Fr tho
6:11 “just stay 11 for as long as you can and you might have a chance with him too” THE SHADEE LOLLL
HE DIDNT
Also messed up: the grandfather and butler suspected something was off, and Chussie actually figured it out on her own, but the parents didn't notice anything until the kids hit them over the head and told them they switched.
I mean, at least it is realistic in that the parents are rich but so busy that they don't really know their own daughter that well lol and like in real life, the servants (sorry, english isn't my 1st language and I can't think of a better word) are the ones who get to truly know the kid.
@@Gr95dcThis might work, but it seems like both parents were rather involved with their kids. Both girls are implied to be quite close to their respective parents.
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Don't forget the dog who Barked at Annie when she was at her Dad's house because even he could tell that she wasn't Hallie.
The dad actually does suspect at one point. I think they both do but I can't recall exactly... It's just so much something they've both clearly blocked off from being in the realm of possible (because of their own crazy unhealthy decision to just cut themselves off from their other child) that it actually makes sense to me. They're both too much in denial and pain to stop suppressing what is obvious to everyone else with a healthy brain
What bothers me is how did the parents not feel sick to their stomachs only having one of their children, knowing they gave away the other.
I'm sure that they did they just sadly learned to cope with it. :(
because its a movie? made for kids so it doesnt have to be 5head 5D chess levels of depth, IQ testing and thoughtfulness?
@@nbassasin8092 maybe it doesn't HAVE to have deep thought, but it would be nice. Kids aren't dumb, they think about these things when watching movies too
@@alim.9801 Most kids dont actually, you develop those skills through literature classes so most kids only start to think and analize these things around the puberty/end of their primary school, and even that is a stretch.
And I doubt targeted audience for this movie is 14-15, not saying those people cant enjoy it, its quite enjoyable at any age, but you always have to look at targeted audience when discussing this.
Also, not every movie in general not just kids move, has to be deep and flawless to be good, I get annoyed when I see people being pedantic with details about widely enjoyed movies, sometimes you dont put on a movie to mentally challenge you but quite the opposite, to have fun and relax.
I do enjoy the movie - you're taking this wildly serious. It is like 50 First Dates, I liked that movie too but when I first watched it when I was like 11/12 I said to my mum "she must be so scared to wake up pregnant, that's awful." Kids do pick up on things. As a viewer you are very much likely to imagine yourself in that scenario or situation, it is preferable really so you get more invested in a story. I think it isn't weird to question that scenario at all.
You can enjoy a movie, while also thinking "damn that's a bit messed up". Even as a kid I thought it was weird for parents to divide their children and that's what I spoke about most of the movie. Maybe that is cause I am an older sister, living with a big family.
I'm not asking it to be flawless or good? I don't know why you are fighting like I've condemned the movie, I just find the premise a little odd, and I'm just talking about it. It's always been something on my mind since I first watched it. I still find it funny, I still enjoy it, I grew up with it, I showed it to my little brother a few months ago, in no way do I dislike the movie. Questioning something, and overly picking something apart are two very different things. I questioned the movie, so what? Why do you care? It's not like I broke apart the movie and said it needed to be a serious commentary about children of divorce - because, believe it or not, I like the movie. Shocker.
It is a little funny that you are saying stuff like this "it doesnt have to be 5head 5D chess levels of depth, IQ testing and thoughtfulness?" about a, what? 10 worded comment? That also didn't require a deep level of thoughtfulness.
Fun fact: This film's actually a remake for an older version (they're all based on a book and the first film got a sequel). Although the actual fun fact is that the actress that plays Meredith's mom in this one is the same actress that fulfilled Meredith's role in the original film.
How bad of a parent do you have to be to not realize that the child you picked up from camp wasn’t the right one 💀
To be fair...they were identical, and had 8 weeks to learn about eachother, how to talk and act....
In their defense, they had no reason to think it was their twin, tho they couod at least have been suspicious
Growing up, this made me think it was normal for divorced parents with twins to split them up like inanimate possessions
It actually was normal before the 1970s. This movie is a remake of a much older movie from 1961, the twins are older in that movie and would have been born in 1945, so yeah, this would not have been an outlandish custody arrangement at the time their parents would’ve gotten divorced. Before the 1970s, if parents of young children got divorced, joint custody arrangements were pretty rare, usually what would happen is a judge would assign a specific kid to a specific parent to live with for the rest of their life. So a lot of the time, if your parents got divorced, you would live with one parent and you may never see your other parent and the sibling that live with that other parent ever again.
@@bebop2523 that’s weird
@@bebop2523 The more you know
@@bebop2523Haley Mills was amazing in that film.
@@bebop2523 it's also based on a german novel by Erich Kästner from 1949, with the idea being older than that. He intended to write a movie but had to drop it due to him being openly against the Nazi Regime.
After the war he made it into a novel (which is still quite popular in Germany) so the first draft of this dates into the early fourtys!
It's so funny that each parent was just okay with never seeing their other child ever again
Yeah but you could see the guilt in their eyes once they realized it was the opposite twin they were raising. Plus the dad redeemed himself by stating at the end that he would nvr let them go again. 😢
@@AnaAcuraErica Nah dawg they left them for YEARS theyre strangers now and they should feel bad
Yeah you do kind of have to gloss over that to route for them to get back together and have a happy ending. At least it isn't as bad as the traditional Hanzel and Gretel story. Remember there the parents tried to kill the kids TWICE by abandoning them in the woods and when the kids defeat the witch they find the witch's treasure and bring it back to their parents, then the 4 of them live happily ever after because they are rich. NEVER set well with me.
And their children going that long without seeing their sibling
@@sydneygunn2241I’ve never met my sister and I’m in my 30’s. Found out by accident when I was 11 and I still don’t know her name or where she lives. It sucks ass.
Jesus Christ I hope Lohan has a comeback, a child actor who can not only do a convincing accent but also not be unbearable is basically a prodigy
She was also constantly switching accents, sometimes within the same scene.
She actually did start acting again! I watched her in a Netflix Christmas called Falling for Christmas, about two Christmases ago and it was actually quite funny. She's looks like she's doing much better now so she might start regularly acting again.
@@jtm881 yeah, Irish wish is coming out soon
Who takes irreplaceable childhood pictures to summer camp 💀💀
Lindsey Lohan, and Lindsey Lohan.
“You’re going to adopt Meredith” is actually very funny. Never mind the earlier Leo joke.
leo is a dirty old man.
What was the Leo joke?
@@TheActualAldo "Stay 11 for as long as you can and you might have a chance with him too"
I remember thinking “they” were going to be rivals against the Olsen twins 🤣
That WAS hilarious actually... such a mock "kid innocence" answer...
"If you stay 11 for as long as you can you might have a chance with him too" I'm deceased 💀💀💀
Frrrrr💀
What does that mean though?
@@danielknapp159 He only dates really young women and dumps them before they're 30, then gets a new young girlfriend.
@Jess N. really? This is news to me. Honestly, the first negative news about the guy I have heard.
@@jessn.3851 still, 11 seems kind of young.
This movie is a 90s treasure and a beautifully wholesome gem for a generation of people like myself. I will forever scream to the rooftops that LL should've been nominated for an academy award for her dual performance. At her age, to play roles with such nuance is amazing. She was so talented.
An academy award is a bit of a stretch. A kids choice award tops
I remember my dad taking me on a hike to heart rock as a kid. We followed a long electric cable near the end for a little while that was placed in the middle of the trail. We saw a guy walking along and asked him about it since he had a bunch of gear with him. He told us they were filming a movie about twins but it was played by one girl. He got in depth about how they duplicate the image to make it look like twins on film. Finally after a couple years i put two and two together and figured out it was this was the movie they were shooting. Weird how it turned out to be one of my favorites as a kid.
That’s actually so cool!
My favourite part is how none of the camp councillors say anything about the fact that they look absolutely identical to the other untill they meet face to face for the first time
Girl your spelling is atrocious
They're not paid enough to deal with it lmao
to be fair, there were like 2 councillors to look after 200 girls, so it's kinda okay, they also didn't notice at first
Or any of the other campers lol like it wasn't a big deal which is so weird
Unless you saw them together, you probably assumed they were the same girl lol. I’ve worked in summer camps, it’s hard to keep track of every face, you are more looking for people who stand out, as in, don’t belong. I don’t care what anyone says, it’s not easy to keep dozens of kids in your mind at once while they’re all screaming and running in different directions. It was a lot of fun though..
this is the only movie that's ever made me want my own twin and honestly i respect this movie's ability to do that
Agreed, I actually believed that Lindsay had a twin sister for years!
@@trinaq I was todays years old when I found out she doesn’t have a twin
The original Parent Trap made your parents and grandparents wish they had twins (if they didn't already, of course), too.
I remembered hearing the theory she actually had a twin sister, but she died during filming so they just credited lindsay as both twins.
And yes this theory does sound stupid and is not true but was I convinced for a week this was true.
Fr, at least I definitely used to love it until I watched It Takes Two. Not that I don't like The Parent Trap still, just that I respect the classics 👌👌👌
I have a smidge of sympathy for Meredith. Girl was a hustler, she definitely worked and had her own, and she genuinely seemed to at the very least, LIKE Nick. She did initially try to be nice and talk to Hallie. Nick had been keeping this secret from her the whole time, THEN she finds out the girls are trying to set Nick back up with the ex-wife, THEN gets dragged out to the middle of a lake in her sleep and wakes up freaking out. What if she didn't know how to swim? What if she got attacked by a wild animal or something? This could've possibly been a murder attempt by the twins. And Nick didn't do much to stick up for her.....
I would've lost my shit too.
Girl dodged a bullet, lol.
LOL
That’s a new perspective, it hits you differently as an adult!
Ikr!!! Growing up I absolutely hated her character but now as I’m the same age as Meredith in the movie I kinda feel for her.
If you don’t want to deal with stepkids being wary of you at first, don’t date someone with kids. Meredith acted like the main character with her boyfriend’s kids and she got her ass handed to her. Them’s the breaks.
We all realize Nick is the actual problem here LOL
Imagine being ok with never seeing one of your own kids ever again. That’s one hell of a grudge lol
It’s just clunky writing; they’re not real.
@@kiwimusumehappens a lot in real life though doesn’t it
It was SO HARD for me to come to terms with the fact that Lindsay Lohan didn’t actually have a twin when I was a kid. I was so disappointed and confused when I found out
In the original haley mills played both parts with another gurl as a stand in in certain scenes
The betrayal!
@@jenniferwilliams5478 Lindsay Lohan had a stand in as well. Actually 2, a little girl that was in scenes with Lindsay and a tiny grown woman for some distant shots.
Fr😢
Every once in a while I rewatch this movie with my dad and we both cry together in the scene when Annie meets her father. This is one of our favorite movies to watch together, but we both agree that the whole idea is crazy. My dad always remarks how cruel it is to separate two sisters and prevent them to meet their other parent. And he also said once: "Thank goodness both parents are rich! Imagine if one was poor, the shock that it would be for the other twin"
Yeah, watching as an adult I get emotional when they meet their daughters for the first time in over a decade. The mom gets teary eyed, I would be straight up bawling if that happened irl.
@@joburg2646 when the girls meet EACH OTHER for the first time i cried. imagine finding your literal other half and not feeling so alone anymore.
see: The Lying Game, a tv show on the family channel (abc family, freeform, whatever they call it now). There was a set of twins separated at birth and one ended up with a rich family and the other ended up in a string of foster houses and then got sent to prison for something she didn't do.
Are u a wizard marie?
@@RilianSharp that cliffhanger was criminal!!
Being from the Netherlands and watching the Dutch dubbed version of this movie and also being very young, I never understood that they lived on different continents. I just thought they lived a few hour drive away from each other. When I got older and found out, it made their whole plan seem much more serious and dangerous.
As an adult who has a strained relationship with my dad, I gotta say these girls took the whole "one of my parents totally abandoned me" thing really, really well. It's like, if it was me instead of trying to figure out why my parents split up, I'd be more concerned with why one of my parents (who knew I existed) never once tried to contact me, and only left me with their picture which was a torn picture. When Haley and Annie first met their mom and dad, that was literally the first time they had even heard their voices. Like how are you okay with having zero contact with one of your children, and even lying to them about being twins so they can never meet their sister, and so you can pretend like there's no reason to see each other. Soooo messed up.
The writers wanted to make a modern adaptation of a wartime story but they took out the war so there was no plausible reason for the separation, so they had to cobble together this plot instead. It’s probably insensitive, but it’s coming from a place of not-so-great writing rather than genuine beliefs about how children should react to abandonment.
@@kiwimusume Sure it was written during WW2, but the plot isn't, and even if it was the reason for the split was still the parents getting a divorce, like in both Disney versions. And it doesn't change the fact that both abandoned one of their daughters and lied to the other.
The dads girlfriend making him choose between her or his kids is sadly the most accurate thing in this movie 😂
I can saldy vouch for this. From divorced family and my Dad dated a rather unpleasant woman who made him make the same choice. Sadly he didn't make the same choice as Nick Parker lol!
Yeah my dad chose the stepmother. It’s not always a happy ending kids!
Ofc he’s gonna pick the kids! He divorced the kids mom and missed out on his other’s daughters life! he’s not gonna do it again
@@chandlerwright5460or....she was counting on him being consistent and being happy to throw away his kids the way he's proven he's capable of doing before 🤷🏿♀️
@@wolfsisterhowls the pranks during the camping trip also showed she can’t/unwilling to handle the country lifestyle which is a key component of his livelihood, on top of showing she truly doesn’t have any maternal instincts.
So in reality she’s demanding, him to choose between her or every aspect of his life including his kids.
The fact that you made an almost 20 minute video on how insane this movie is and you didn't even mention the at home ear piercing scene really brings your point home 😂
I can't believe some TV reruns of that movie still cut out that crazy scene! 😂I guess they don't really want kids imitating that stuff or get scarred from it.
Yeah the ear piercing scene was weird...
The camp isn't random. It's actually a real camp in Maine.
That's how I pierced my brother in laws ears...
@@sunspotmill1291 That scene frightened my young daughter on first viewing and it didn't really add anything. I would also have cut out the lizard going into Meredith's mouth for just being stupid. Otherwise I thought it was a good family movie. Both my kids loved it.
Fun fact! When Hallie is in the hotel pretending to be Annie about to go in the elevator, she is singing the song in the original movie.
Also, fun fact: the woman who plays Meredith's mother, played Vicki (Meredith's equivalent) in the original Parent Trap with Haley Mills 😆 Nice touch, Disney. 👍
Fun fact: Meredith’s mom in the parent trap 13:22 is actually the original “other woman/ fiancé” in the 1961 Disney movie. Having watched that movie as a kid I was like it didn’t work the first time marrying the rich guy with twins so now she is trying with her daughter 😂.
And the characters have the same name too!
I already knew that fun fact but what you said is absolutely hilarious! I wish it were true! XD
Just call her "Aunt Vicky pet "
I like to think that Vicky, not getting to marry her rich guy, she moves on and married. She has Meredith and told her to marry someone rich. Therefore, Vicky is trying to live through her daughter.
@@mistybenjamin9009 That's TOTALLY my head-canon too, and the reason we never see Vicki again after that one scene is because she died off-screen from a heart-attack once she realized that she and her family were doomed to repeat the same story over and over!
It always struck me that it wasn’t their parents that noticed the switch. It was the nanny and the grandfather.
The actual people who raised them
not to mention the dog sammie too he knew right off the bat
The parent trap set off a trend of eating Oreos with peanut butter for so many people
I was shocked to see this because Oreo’s weren’t a think in the UK back when parent trap was out so Annie wouldn’t eat them 😂
5:38 I always thought that this scene was weird because of the way the camp councilor points to the isolation cabin
As an adult i honestly tear up every time the girls meet their parent for the first time. It ends up being so sweet
Same ❤
It’s funny how they made Meredith look like the vilain but the father forgot to talk to her about the other twin and the arrangement he had with his ex wife 🤔
True, but Meredith has a scene early on (before the reveal about there being a secret twin) showing she was planning on getting rid of his daughter anyway. So deception or no deception, she still was terrible.
Does anyone remember It Takes Two?
@@wolfsisterhowlsyea, but that was bc the daughter was being terrible to her…
I mean, you'd consider the parents as villains too if you're going by that logic. All the adults kept this secret to themselves. They never told either girl or anyone who wasn't there when the girls were born. The only other adults to know other than the parents were Annie's grandfather, Martin, and Chessy.
In that case the mother would be a villain too, since she never told the truth to Annie either
This movie came out slightly before the harrowing divorce of my parents. I can't tell you how many kids my age at the time, as well as adults, would jokingly tell me that me and my identical twin brother should attempt to bring my parents back together "Just like in The Parent Trap!" I knew they were joking and I just smiled back, but deep down those comments stabbed my soul knowing the gravity of the divorce. I've hated this movie ever since and I've actually never watched it (though I learned the plot over time). Thank you for listening to my therapy session!😅
Divorce and broken homes suck. Idiot parents say dumb things like "oh kids are resilient, they will be happier", they are full of it. As a divorced single dad of 4 I've done the best I can to minimize the suck for my kids but there's no way to eliminate it. I didn't want the divorce but if I thought the kids would prefer if I moved out I would have. Instead I refused to move out and I fought for as much custody as I could get. My boys are with me full time (they are older), my girls about half. But I always tell them even though I want them all the time they can spend as much time as they want with their mom any time they want. I'm lucky I never had to live that two home co-parenting thing like you did.
That's super fucked up for people to say, WTF.
OK, but the second wife having a secret hatred for her husband’s kids from a past relationship is actually very realistic, like, that happened to my mom with her stepmom.
Meredith being 26 is kind of insane. 😂
yeah she looks older
I thought she was 29?
back when I watched it and I was like 10, 26 seemed such a reasonable age to marry an older richer guy... I am now 23 and Am Absolutely Horrified that 26 year old Meredith Blake tried to marry a man in his 40s
I was looking for this comment! When I was a kid I thought she was so old and mature, but she's only 26?? She does dress and act very classy which probably makes her seem older
@@spntageous5249 why? There's nothing wrong with it. Besides, women marry up, which requires men to marry down.
I loved Natasha Richardson in this movie. She was a great mom for Parent Trap.
Sadly, she passed away in 2009 after a skiing accident where she suffered a head injury. She was only 45, gone too soon. RIP. ❤
Yes that was so sad. and she didn't go to the hospital right away which maybe could've saved her, but there's no way to know. but gone too soon!
Rest in peace, Natasha. I loved her in both this film and in "Maid in Manhattan." She was married to Liam Neeson, and scenes of "Love Actually", were his character is grieving his own deceased wife, are harder to watch now.
oh god, that’s terrible. I always loved her in this movie, and wondered why she wasn’t in any other romcoms/kids movies i saw after since she was so clearly an amazing love interest and mother character. I hope she’s at peace
That's so sad I had no clue. She was a great actress, she was great in the Broadway revival of Cabaret
Yeah, I remember reading about that in a magazine article shortly after the movie Wild Child was released.
She was very talented, gone too soon indeed.
Imagine having twins and then lying to them about their separation, that dark. Funny side note, a guy with dark hair and a blonde woman can have a redhead. I would know because my dad has dark hair, my mom has blonde, and I'm redhead. Red hair is a recessive gean so both parents carry the trait but don't necessarily have red hair. I'm also a year older than Lindsey Lohan 😅
8:16 That man is not British, he's "Bri'ish"
When I was a kid I just assumed some of the timeline stuff could be explained by their wedding being themed around the night they met on the cruise, not literally on the same cruise. And I thought the Dad had been dating Meredith for a while but simply never introduced her to Hallie, likely because he knew it wouldn't be well-received so he'd been putting it off for as long as possible, assuming she'd be more receptive/in a good mood when she returned from camp.
Same
I think it seems like they did meet and marry on the cruise, then quickly drove each other nuts during the pregnancy
The most unrealistic part is that someone from England would go to an American summer camp for 8 weeks since our summer holidays only last for 6 weeks.
The second most is that Annie and Hallie don’t immediately realize they are twins. I guess mirrors don’t exist in this universe.
She could be home schooled ?
@@nataliacruz6218 my thinking too
Also what’s unrealistic for me, why was one twin American and the other English?
In the original story the twins came from Munich and Vienna, which are much closer to each other and don't have an ocean inbetween.
In the original movie Haley sang a song called "let's get together" in this one Lindsay sang the song to herself. Also one of the twins was named Haley
This is literally one of my favorite movies. Back when Disney made fantastic movies…. SMH, how far they’ve fallen
Are we all going to ignore the fact that according to 15:05 , Dylan is in Trouble has married Stephanie Meyer, Trin and Ashley 😂 I'm dyinggg
Tysm for pointing this out🤣
Was looking for this comment lmao
I was laughing cuz I didn’t know Dylan was such a player 😂😂
And don't forget Thomas the Tank Engine
And his newest bride is apparently a fleshlight 😂 Alex is really roasting Dylan here
It’s 25 years of ‘The Parent Trap’. RIP Natasha Richardson who had impeccable comic timing here.
Also, it was well cast and everyone understood the assignment.
P.S. A favourite factoid about this movie was that Elizabeth James was low-key based on Princess Diana.
I always thought she looked like princess Diana 👑
@@zjjir I mean, there’s a slight similarity.
@@rileyywhited Yes, I thought this too!
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@@rileyywhited same here!
Fun fact there is also a Hindi movie based on this film called 2 kaliyan (2 flowers/lotuses) with the exact same story but a bit of added drama in the beginning explaining how the parents met and why they separated in the first place and also the dads girlfriend in the film literally try’s to kill the girls by hiring an assassin which is why the father breaks up with her and reunites with the mom along with a few songs here and there and the mom also thinks that the husband is dead mid way in the movie
16:01 Meredith is drinking Evian, the name of the character from superstar. Never noticed that connection😂
I was waiting for you to mention that Meredith's mother who tells Annie "you may call me Aunt Vickey" is the same actress from the original Parent Trap movie who played the dad's fiance. And her name was Vickey. That's the same character! Like mother like daughter.
I'm just imagining Meredith complaining to her mom about the situation afterwards and her mom being like "I had a similar situation before I met your father"
If this was a modern movie there would be seven sequels, each one finding a new sibling 😂
Then thank god it isn’t a modern movie.
They did the same thing back in the day. There is a Parent trap 2 sequel to the 1961 movie that was released in 1986, and a parent trap 3 made for TV movie from 1989. Haven't seen them and don't know what happens in them. The 1998 version is the "modern reboot".
@@johngaltline9933 oh yeah I keep forgetting about that!
Yep and itd be on Netflix lol
Literally, I'm so glad it wasn't bc tbh nowadays movies sucks lol
The biggest question I had from the Summer Camp portion of the story is where exactly did the sole Boy at the camp sleep? Did he get a cabin all to himself? The boy's parents mistakenly sent him to an All-Girls Summer Camp and he's there for the full 8 weeks. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
The last time they showed him was when he was like "MOM! PICK UP PLEASE!!" I like to think his parents just picked him up and took him to a different camp 😂
@@GreenieJay Watch the movie again, he's in the cafeteria scene trying to call his mom just before the twins almost meet, later he's in the fencing match losing to Hallie prior to her duel with Annie, and when camp ends he is surrounded by group of girls who he promises to keep in touch with as they're sad to see him leave. 🤣
17:01 on the run from interpol 🤣🤣🤣🤣
This is actually based on a German children's book by Erich Kästner where he let the parents split the twins as a metaphor for how parents don't care about their children when they divorce.
Ironically, he was never married himself and had a son with a girlfriend he had seperated from.
Thanks for pointing this out! I love Erich Kästner's books😊
The book is called "Das doppelte Lottchen"
I had no idea. Thank you for sharing that
And I think, it's important to know, that the book was first published in 1949. The first draft of it is from 1942. So, when the parents split and went on to live in Munich and Vienna, it was reasonable that they never heard from eachother and that they went to the same summercamp. It was a very different society in these days...
Fun Fact: The Olsen Twins starred in a movie version of Erich Kästner's story, which was called It Takes Two.
Fun fact: Meredith's mom, who says, "Hello pet, you may call me Aunt Vicky." is played by the same woman that played Vicky in the original Parent Trap with Haley Mills from 1961.
Edit: She's the same character, obviously.
I saw that original movie on Disney plus. It’s pretty good too. I’m that version “Meredith” ( not sure if she had a different name in that version) slapped one of the twins.
@@amylee8969 her name was Vicky 😂
I thought that was a great touch.
Thank you for mentioning the original Parent Trap
@kirabouwerviraltyd No problem! Haley Mills movies were an awesome part of my childhood.
9:18 that’s the most 11 year old thing in this in this movie LOLZ
Actually the part where Meredith says “it’s me or the kids” before even getting married honestly isn’t too far fetched. I remember watching this movie when I was little and my mom told me the same thing happened to my great grandfather and grandpa back in the day. My great grandfather was engaged to a women after my great grandma died and went on a camping trip with her and his 2 teenage sons (my grandpa and his brother). My grandpa and his brother were terrible to her and she kept complaining about going camping (more of a city girl I guess) since she wanted to go skiing in like aspen or something, but my great grandfather said that they always go camping in the summer and it’s a tradition and they’re not going to cut the trip short just because of her. Well I guess that was the final straw because she said it’s them (my grandpa and his brother) or her. My great grandfather apparently looked at her like she was stupid and said “Of course I’m going to choose my kids.” She got pissed at that and stormed off saying that if he doesn’t follow her that she won’t be back when they return.
Well they had a fun camping trip and my great grandfather never heard from her again. All that was left apparently was the ring on the table when they got back along with a note with some choice language apparently.
She dodged a bullet, a big bullet.
@@o.m9514 You mean he dodge aa bullet, right? If she wanted to be with him, she should have known he would pick his kids (like a good father) over her.
I do not cry at media, nothing has ever made me choke up, but by god if I don't get the least bit choked up when Chessy realizes that she's been with Annie after so many years.
She plays that scene so well
Yes. That and the hug between Haley (pretending to be Annie) and their mom when she first gets to London gets me every time.
Learning that Kat Graham is a part of this masterpiece from my childhood audibly made me gasp. This movie is now even better than I initially remembered it.
Seriously though, I am totally shocked. Baby Bonnie Bennett looks cute though
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And the camp counsellor is Janice from Friends
This (and Barbie Princess and the pauper) will always be the best twin swap places movie. Still makes me cry❤️. The princess switch could never
I am glad you made this video because I am re-watching this in my 30s and have SO MANY 'WTF' thoughts. Agree with all the things you have mentioned and a few more...
1. there is NO WAY a posh English woman has never tasted Vodka before this flight.
2. Meredith in the lake - me when I was 13 "hahaha!", me now "omg she could have drowned!"
3. REAL ESTATES appreciation - when I was young I appreciated how 'nice' these houses are but now... holy moly these are some £££ properties. The London townhouse is next to Harrods and is £9m (in today's money). Oooof.
4. Lindsay Lohan is so talented. I couldn't believe it was the same actor playing the twins for years.
I never really watched this movie as a kid,maybe once, so when I finally re watched it as an adult I was like what in the actual hell?!?! What kind of effed up parent is ok with never seeing one of their children ever again?! And being ok with their twins being separated and growing up without each other as well as their other parent! This concept is just wild. Also just realized that the counselor is Janice from friends.
Same 😅
This movie is a remake of another movie from 1961 where the twins are older and would’ve been born in 1945, back then custody arrangements were very different, really up until the 1970 when no-fault divorce was introduced there was very rare “joint custody” and what would usually happen instead is that one parent would get full custody of either all of the kids or some of the kids (depends how many kids there are) and would just never see their ex again. So there were real situations where twins would get split up between parents and then just never see each other or their other parent again.
I found it messed up even as a kid 😅
I always wanted to know how they picked which kid to keep and which to to abandon.
@@bebop2523it's base on the German book from late 40's 💁
Hands down a better Disney remake than the other Disney remakes of our beloved animated classic!
Just wait until we get the remake that is a show.
I grew up on the original because they had it at the local video store :D
This and Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey are Disney's best remakes.
Even Freaky Friday the other Lindsay Lohan starring Disney remake?
Never realized until now that the camp counselor in the fencing scene is Janice from friends. Wow.
“the ceiling fan is full of razor blades” took me out 😂
I never thought about how fucked it it was to separate the twins and just never tell them about their sister. Also I can never stop thinking about he ear piercing scene, I was always grossed out by it lol.
Yeah that scene was weird. You would think she was giving her 10 year old twin a tattoo or something lol
They cut it out in certain dvds or on TV
I only got separated from my twin as an adult. She’s under an abusive conservatorship with our former foster parent. I was lucky to get away from it myself and find my real family. My dad would’ve rescued her too if he didn’t have a stroke.
The dylanisintrouble wedding invitation was incredibly unexpected and hilarious 15:05
and Trin Lovell being on the list lmao
Parent trap is a classic. It is not just for kids, it is nostalgic for parents too. Besides, Lindsay shines in this movie.
This movie is based on the novel "Das doppelte Lottchen" from the German author Erich Kästner.
The book was written during World War II.
That explains a little bit, how families became torn apart like this.
I really missed your Red flag orchestra, Alex. And the movie is a classic, allthough a lot of messed up things in it were "normalised" for the sake of the storyline. But I agree with you, there aren't any more Disney movies for the whole family.
The most bizarre thing is that I know the story of a friend of my mother that is very similar. The two twin brothers were raised separately and met later at 40 unaware of each other's existence until then, as they had a mutual friend. Sadly, one of them passed away from covid shortly after they met.
What
That type of situation was really common in families that got divorced before the legal reforms of the 1970s, the 1998 parent trap is a remake of the 1961 movie and at that time the arrangement of the twins being split up and living with each parent would not have been so unusual
@@bebop2523but these movie base on German book from late 40's
If that ever happened to me, I would curse both of my parents until the day that I died. Imagine thinking that you have the right to keep that from your child.
@@bebop2523 do the math buddy, if the guy was 40 and died of covid, it didn't happen before 1970
15:02 Not the Dylan is in Trouble wedding invite 🤣🤣
I would die for Martin and grandfather bro. They’re so wholesome❤
so glad to see Janice finally move on and become a camp counselor.
Lmao this comment cracked me up hahaha
Omg!!!! Janice a camp counselor!!
😂 yes!
Hahahahahah
And Flo found a new job after Mel closed the diner.
hands down my favourite childhood movie
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Agree
My cousin and I had the handshake memorized 😄
I love to do food videos while smoking weed on my CZcams channel, to cure people’s boredom 🦅
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Great video Alex as always but when the kid said she always wanted a big sister and the dad says no ima marry her I got an ad for the army pop up 😂 12:18
Same
Parent trap is my all time favorite movie. I watch it every year around Christmas because its gets so much better the older you get.
IT ONLY GETS BETTER WITH AGE. Ice cream, pajamas, blankets and parent trap😍😍😍
as a twin who was obsessed with twin media as a kid, the parent trap is probably my all time favorite movie
Did you ever watch It Takes Two, with the Olsen Twins? I never watched parent trap as a kid, but It Takes Two is basically parent trap a little to the left
@@simly5189 I thought it was the parent trap mixed with Prince and the pauper
@@simly5189 I thought you were talking about the game for a moment
I mean, Asians get twins easy...
@@Svol09 what
As a kid, I thought this was a cruel nightmare. As a mom now, I know it would be. I can't imagine just giving up one of my kids like this.
It's like they thought "twins aren't 2 distinct individuals, they're the same person twice" so f*cked up
That's what gets me. Most parents I know would never let this happen. And it appears that the mother comes from money, so surely she could have gotten custody of them
The actress who played Merideth once played a succubus on the Middle Man. She definitely had that evil beauty thing down.
I watched this recently with my 12 year old son and he was expressing disbelief every step of the way 😅 at one point he said "they just decided to never tell their kid about their sibling or their other parent?! Who does that?!" He's a kid of divorce so I guess he's particularly astute about this 😂
Fun fact, Meredith's mum in this film played the original Meredith character - Vicky in the original Parent Trap movie from the 60's.
Meredith’s mom played Vicky in the Hayley Mills version. Such a classic.
Do you mean the characters? Because Joanna Barnes (the original Vicky actress) did not have children.
@@elizabethquinn8362Yeah, the actress who played Vicky also played Meredith’s mom.
@@elizabethquinn8362 🙂. Yes I mean the characters. 🙃
That's neat! I didn't know that.
I remember seeing this as a kid and for the longest I thought Lindsey Lohan was actually 2 twins haha. She played the characters so well and it was filmed so smoothly
As someone who grew up in the Napa valley, when I watched this as a child it freaked me out. Not to mention my house was right in front of a vineyard
Both my sisters tried out for the movie because the camp (Camp Seeley) was right around the corner from our house. They didn't get a part. The lake scene was Lake Gregory where my elementary school was. Neat fun facts lol 😂
That is neat :)
I’m loving the new red flag parade at 16:36 lol. If anyone deserves it it’s Meredith Blake
9:00 Diet, exercise, genetics, and grooming. You can control three of those.
Hair grooming, correct? ...........
*CORRECT?!*
@@kingstonlovely7404 Hair, skin care, dental hygiene, your personal smell, even things like posture. There is so much you can do to improve your looks and presence outside of just going to the gym that it's not even funny. Most straight men barely take care of themselves and even if they do it's just going to the gym a few times a week. It's not hard at all to pull ahead of them in the looks department if you're willing to put in the effort. Still can't buy a personality, but at least you can buy your appearance.
i love how you put a random song over the part where she gets out of the car instead of the british natuonal anthem lolol. also its such a trip to think I was only a couple years younger than lindsay when this movie came out and I was watching it, because for some reason my kid brain thought she looked like "suh a big kid" in this movie. I haven't watched this since I was literally in elementary shcool so its really nice re-visiting it now as an adult.
Honestly now that I’m nearly 20 the plot of this hasn’t aged well but I used to love this film as a kid, i just used to love how they acted together when they reunited and the fact they swapped lives - I don’t know regardless of how crazy the plot is I’ll forever love this film
Of course the plot hasn’t aged “well”. The story is based on the German novel “Das doppelte Lottchen” with its first adaptation from the 50s/60s. Completely different time, culture and laws.
Personally, I find the 90s version “Charlie und Louise” the best as they were older but also the characters less infantilized as it wasn’t an American production. Also 90s kids movies were the least moral finger wagging boring.
How did the plot not age well?
It's just a made up plot to make the movie fun. :)
@@andreasmeelie1889 just the whole separating two twins and never seeing eachother ever again - isn’t realistic and now people have realised how kinda fucked up it is LOL
I don't see the problem, same plot as the 1961 film and I'd still watch and enjoy either one.
@Ks oh, I don't agree with what they did to their kids. It's not about it not aging well though. But the movie itself is still very watchable.
15:03 LOL I see Dylan's name on the list as the uncle who gets married a bunch 😂 Love it. Nice shoutout to "Dylan in in Trouble".
And Trin was on the list of people to marry
I watch him and I still missed that, I got so distracted by that last uncrossed out name
I was looking for this comment! And the last name F. Lesh Light lmao👀
I’m glad I’m not alone 😂 hello trouble makers
I have tears running down my face from laughing so hard.
He forgot to put Ursula up there.
I do fencing myself and I love how in every movie the fencing is zo zo far of of what is really is in every movie they are juming over things like walls haybals but in reality your standing in a straigt line just trying to make the least possible contact en make a point as fast as possible
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As a teenager born, raised and currently living in Napa, that's actually relatable to me! I don't live right next to a vineyard but theres so many its nearly impossible to not see one everyday. I thought it was really cool to see my hometown in a movie as a kid, even though they only showed the stereotypical "winery-glam" aspect of it (something absolutely not relatable to me). BTW the napa airport does not look like that at all, its actually very tiny.
If nobody else noticed, Meredith's mother in this movie was the original 'Meredith' character from The Parent Trap! I love when remakes do that!
My grandpa was the only other person I ever heard point that out. He had me watch the original when I was young, he grew up with it.
@@ahhhhhhhhhhah6215 WOW! Tell me old to my face next time! 🤣
And in both movies she’s named “Vicky”, my head cannon is that it’s the same woman who really should have told her daughter about the time she almost married a vintner but was sabotaged by his daughter’s twin after the twin came back from camp as her sister.
They're like, "Oh, you're from California! Do you live in Hollywood?" And then they're all, "Heh, we'll subvert expectations and say she's from Northern California!" And then proceed to have her live in Napa on a friggen vineyard. You haven't subverted anything, Disney!
This was one of my favorite movie as a child. I watched it recently and it still holds strong. And as you mentioned in the video, there are really no family movies like that anymore and I miss them so much.