The Parent Trap was kinda insane
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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.
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.
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?
@Gauss 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
@Ali M. 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.
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. 😢
@Ana Acura 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
@Sydney GunnI’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.
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
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..
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...
@Sunspot Mill 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: they do actually look a bit different because Lindsey Lohan shot each twin a year apart. If you pay attention the British twin looks smaller and younger. You can really see how much Lindsey Lohan’s face developed in one year :)
That actually helps them look slightly different. 😊
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
@Antonia 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.
@The Dawn of Vanlife 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.
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.
@Misty Benjamin 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!
As a kid of divorced parents, this movie gave me way too much hope. 😂
Same
Sorry to hear that lmao
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.
@Stephanie Wozny 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
@Paul Xombie thank you! Yes, Martin!
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.
All the adults in this movie are the villains if we’re being honest for agreeing to this set up.
Does anyone remember It Takes Two?
@jennifer williams MK&A? Yes!!!
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".
@John Galt Line 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
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?
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.
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.
@Amy Lee her name was Vicky 😂
I thought that was a great touch.
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 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.
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"I always wanted a big sister" is so funny. Go Annie.
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The father left the mother because he was a follower of Leo's relationship advice school XD
Also... Meredith was like 20 something. It's weird as a kid I thought Meredith was old, but not I'm older than her and I want to scream "don't marry you are a kid!"
I was thinking the exact same thing watching this review! I thought she was old as a kid too, not at all. That age gap was crazy.
She's 26, same age as I am. The twins are 11. If one of my friends ever started dating a man with a kid that old I'd tell her to run for and run fast (I mean... unless he had a vineyard, then send the brat off to boarding school and live your best life babe 😂)
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
My only defense of the plot is that they are at summer camp in Maine. And it’s definitely a thing that every summer celebrities and ultra rich send their children here all summer to camps. So with both their parents being well off this actually makes sense 😂
You should watch the original Parent Trap (1961) with Haley Mills. It was just as cute, and made a little bit more sense. The mom lived in Boston while the dad was in CA. There is really good banter between the parents and you can see the romantic chemistry they had.
Loved their chemistry. Then again it's Maureen O'Hara, one of the only women I've seen call John Wayne on his bs in a film. She fit so well as Brian Keith's perfect ex wife.
Great movie, could do without the homophobic undertones
It's not the "original"... The first adaptation of the book ("Das doppelte Lottchen" by Erich Kästner, 1949) is a German movie from 1950.
@Ilogunde I didn't know there was a German one.
@upsetjuice I don't remember that. I'll have to go back and watch again.
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.
@ahhhhhhhhhh ah WOW! Tell me old to my face next time! 🤣
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.
The Leo joke made me howl. Lol
Even as a child, I was so surprised the girls were excited to meet their other parent. If I was a kid and I found out that not only did my mom/dad not care enough about me to have a relationship with me despite not getting along with the ex, but also that I had not just a sister - a twin - and they were just gonna let me live my life without one of the closest bonds a human can feel would make me immeasurably angry and I can’t imagine being excited for that meeting. I’d want answers, not hugs.
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
@Lando 64this comment paired with ur Deadpool pfp is killing me
Ah, an important lesson to learn in life. Good for you!
Oh wow, this is nostalgic! I'm an identical twin, so I think this movie really spoke to me and my twin sister back when it first came out. ADORED it as a child! Thanks for reviewing this! Lindsay Lohan genuinely did an excellent job creating two unique individuals AND making it seem like she was really there in the scene with herself. Amazing at such a young age...
Young Lindsay Lohan was a fantastic actress. I was honestly blown away when I found out she was one person and not twins.
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.
I actually liked "It Takes Two" more when I was a kid. Kind of a similar "twins switch at summer camp, try to get their guardians together while getting rid of dad's evil fiancée" except the girls aren’t related (they just look alike), and one of them is a poor orphan and the other is a lonely rich kid. It also stars the Olsen twins.
I loved It Takes Two only fraternal twins played identical strangers in the movie and they weren't related in the movie
same i liked that movie more lol
Imagine being ok with never seeing one of your own kids ever again. That’s one hell of a grudge lol
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.
@bebop that’s weird
@bebop The more you know
@bebopHaley Mills was amazing in that film.
@bebop 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!
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. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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.
For a more modern family movie, I would say Inside Out. It's a solid kid's movie and the emotions are funny and fun for the kids, but adults get hit emotionally as they understand what Riley is going through with the whole movie being about a child having to process complex emotions and grow up.
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 😅
7:18 Yeah I do agree with that. In real life, I doubt the girls would have been that enthusiastic about meeting their other parent considering that not only did they hide the fact that they have a twin, but they also seemingly forgot about their other child completely. I know for a fact that if I were in this situation, I probably wouldn't be so excited to meet my other parent.
“You’re going to adopt Meredith” is actually very funny. Never mind the earlier Leo joke.
What was the Leo joke?
@Aldo Ramírez "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...
Y’all remember the case of the triplets who were separated at birth and when they reconnected in college, one was so depressed at never previously knowing he was a triplet that he committed suicide? There’s a documentary about it called Three Identical Stranger
oh my god...what. that is so sad. :(
That is so sad!
@Çawreşit was deliberately done as an experiment to see if triplets raised differently would have different personalities.
I guess when you get down to it , there really isn’t a way to tell this story without glossing over the horror of it. Cause the plot doesent work unless the parents act like sociopaths but if they get called out on it beyond “wow mom and dad , that was kinda a dick move “ then the plot can’t be about getting them back together
as much as i still really enjoy this movie, i have such a weird relationship with it now. my dad didn’t tell me until i was an adult that this is exactly what would’ve happened to me and my older sister had my younger one not been born. neither of my parents could stand to give her up so my dad stayed around instead moving away and taking me with him. i guess i can say from personal experience that this plot isn’t nearly as farfetched as it sounds lmao
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 😂
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.
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!
@Trina Q 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 👌👌👌
The parent trap set off a trend of eating Oreos with peanut butter for so many people
In universe the amount of prep this would’ve taken to pull off…the twins kind of lucked out when the camp put them in the isolation cabin.
Incidentally: How is the isolation cabin a thing? I mean, it just seems weird that a summer camp would have something like that set aside.
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
Hold up. Until he said “for some reason” I never thought twice about why they would send someone from London to some random summer camp across the pond 💀
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.
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!
@jennifer williams 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.
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Yeah, the fact that Meredith was so new that Halley didn't know about her, yet Nick had proposed, struck me as odd. I mean, I get that you don't introduce a new love interest to your kid right away, but still. They could have only been dating for a few months, right?
I love how the dad chooses the kids over Meredith with no hesitation because he just loves them so much yet he’s the same person who abandoned one of them as a baby for no reason
Fun Fact: Meredith’s mother was played by actress Joanna Barnes, who played the Meredith role in the original Parent Trap movie!
This was literally my most favorite movie as a child. I got a dvd copy for my seventh birthday and actually *screamed* in excitement. I was a VERY quiet child, so thats really saying something!
This video has some of your best animation yet. I love seeing you get better throughout the years.
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.
@Jo Burg 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?
@Rilian Kenneth Saunders that cliffhanger was criminal!!
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.
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.
I miss the 80s and 90s family movies too. They have a light hearted feel and were fun to watch.
By the way, I thought that there were actually two people playing the twins at the time I watched this movie, like the Olsen sisters. 😅
This is literally one of my favorite movies. Back when Disney made fantastic movies…. SMH, how far they’ve fallen
I would be super interested in hearing your opinion of the original. We rented it over and over from the library when I was a kid. The special effects at the time of having Hayley Mills play both twins was a pretty big deal.
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
@Chandler Wrightor....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 🤷🏿♀️
@Wolfsister 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.
Whenever I see movies like this I think back to the time in like… 6th or 5th grade when these two twins in different classes (both of them mine, just different blocks) tried to switch places for the day. First block everyone was questioning the twin. It did not work (as expected) but nobody could really say that for sure-for sure so they just kinda had to go through the entire block with everyone knowing they were lying 😭
I love these videos so much Alex. I’ve been watching them for years now and they never get old. I even revisit a few for jokes I randomly remember you saying. These little characters are also wildly hilarious, I appreciate your effort bro.🥹
I will spend the rest of my life saying, "Why did anyone let us watch this?" This whole concept is nuts. Two supposedly loving parents who were perfectly fine to give up one of their children? 🙃
Insane increase in production quality and active animation!
Also love the style! Comical and varied!
Fully agree with you we dont get these kind of family movies any more the family films of the 80s 90s & early 2000s strike a good balance between the fun antics and whimsical elements while at the same time having adult themed undertones that tackle serious issues like divorce etc would be great to see you make an entire video on this subject
"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?
@Daniel Knapp 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.
@Jess N. still, 11 seems kind of young.
I guess the movie holds up well because it’s based on a kids novel, Lisa and Lottie by Erich Kästner. I remember reading it as a child. The story is modernised here but the basic premise and conflicts remain and I guess they’re just universally relatable and human… This author has really good children’s novels but this one was my favourite by him. First Matilda, now this, Alex sure is finding some classics 😀
This was one of the few movies I got to see in the theater as a kid, and pretty much the reason I ended up with a huge crush on Lindsey Lohan, being pretty much the same age as her... which, now that I think of it, is probably also why I have kinda a thing for freckly redheads. But yeah, great movie all around, always liked the Home Alone style traps and such, but at camp in the beginning and on their hiking trip near the end! Also, about the warp-speed wedding of the parents, I hear that sort of thing actually happens A LOT on cruise ships like that.
Just a shoutout to the marching band that is one of Alex’s crowning animation achievements
The OG parent trap is just as good. Fun Fact Meredith's mom is played by the same woman who was the younger woman to marry the twins father in the original Parent trap.
The fact that i grew up with the parent trap from the 60's oblivious of the one from the 90's is quite strange now that i think about it --
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
So I guss there are not so many german speakers around, but all the parent trap movies are actually based on a book called "Das doppelte Lottchen" from Erich Kästner, a german author, who wrote many famous books for children (at least they are well known here in austria and germany). His book were even banned from the Nazi-Regime because he was oppositionist. So cheers to him for a story that doesn't seem to have lost ist charm :)
I freaking love this movie and this video made it 10x better 😂😂😂
Also fun fact my mom was gonna be one of the camp girls but her crazy older sister was the one who picked up the call and she hung up on the casting people 🤦♀️
Parent trap is a classic. It is not just for kids, it is nostalgic for parents too. Besides, Lindsay shines in this movie.
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.
I really loved this movie as a kid. It is surprisingly rewatchable as an adult. 👌🏻
I think the messed up parts r supposed to be how things are from a kids perspective. For a kid to meet a step parent, it can feel like her parent JUST met this other adult, and that they are rushing things way too fast. Etc etc.
Lindsey Lohan is for sure talented.
Regarding the whole 'how did a two brunettes have red-heads', red hair is a recessive trait that can skip generations, so it’s not that far-fetched. My family has a red-head gene, but it rarely manifests. My grandpa had brown hair and a bright red moustache, and I have medium-brown hair that turns copper when I'm outside in the sun a lot. Other than that, no one else has gotten red hair for several generations.
Yes, it just gets more subtle (to get Lindsay Lohan's depth of red would still be a reach, but the whole movie is a reach lol). My grandmother had vivid, bright red hair. I don't think either of her parents were redheads.
i never thought anything of it as someone part of a redhead family, 2 siblings got the italian genes then the other 3 of us got redhair and 2 of my cousins have redhair, the only cousin who doesnt didnt get it because her mums philipino genes were stronger, i always thoought obsesion with redhair was weird tho because i was like "i know like 7 red heads just in my family?"
Yeah, if he has a problem with the genetics in this movie, he should watch Disney's Cinderella with Brandy and Whitney Houston.
be cautious of anesthetic and anesthesia, since it affects those with the "red gene" differently. Makes you more immune to some infections tho
Yup! And in some cases with red hair, you're redheaded for a while, and then change to a darker hair color! I'm actually an identical twin, and while my parents both have dark hair, my twin and I started off blonde, then progressed to red-heads, and finally became brunettes (like a chestnut brown). It's actually very interesting!
Besides the issues you mentioned in your video, the thing that bothers me is that no one at camp realized they had 2 identical campers there? They all eat in the same dining hall, they all participate in the same activities, and yet no one noticed? Even if you go with the excuse that they had only been there for a few days when they first met and the other campers hadn't had time to figure out that these were 2 different redheads, I find it hard to believe the adults didn't notice. Especially the two in charge!
Props to whoever animated you because you make an amazing cartoon character
Like a young nicholas cage
Who takes irreplaceable childhood pictures to summer camp 💀💀
The woman playing Meredith's mom, was in the original 1961 Parent Trap. She played basically the same character as Meredith, except her name was Vicki, which they made a reference too in this movie.
Yep!
honest to goodness, I got chills when I saw the whole band there for the 'choose me over your children!' red flag
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 ❤
These two girls did not only switch places but they moved thousands of kilometres away from one another to different continents.
I grew up reading the book the movie is based on and there the two protagonists did live in different places but still in the same country so to switch back they just had to take the train, but in this movie they would have to take a multiple hour plane ride (at least 9 hours) over 8 time zones.
Thank you for this. I have been having a rough couple of weeks and it is nice to start my day off laughing with a smile. I think this is going to be a part of my morning ritual.
6:11 “just stay 11 for as long as you can and you might have a chance with him too” THE SHADEE LOLLL
17:21 the initial reason for family style movies was so that the whole family could watch tv because most houses only had one tv. Now that houses have multiple tvs and devices to watch movies on companies can make movies catered to everyone individually instead of all together.
I would die for Martin and grandfather bro. They’re so wholesome❤
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
Ikr I thought it was insane as a kid but im in my mid 20s now and like wtf no.
The animations and commentary never fail to make me laugh
I would love to see you do a review of the original version of the parent trap with Patty Duke.
Patty Duke had a TV show where she played identical cousins. Hayley Mills started in Parent Trap (1961.)
I never understood why this arrangement was wrong. I remember my mom saying something about how messed up this was, and i didnt understand why until years later
I honestly loved Parent Trap, I remember watching it during our lunch break and I was hooked
The whole time watching this I was extremely reminded of the (here famous) german novel "Das doppelte Lottchen" by Erich Kästner (1949) - and it is an adaption! I really love that book ❤️
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 ?
@Natalia Cruz my thinking too
Annie seems like the home school type to me tbh
Also what’s unrealistic for me, why was one twin American and the other English?
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😍😍😍
I remember watching The Parent Trap about 60 years ago. I didn't know they made a remake of it.