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New York Minute (2004)

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Reviews Counted:114

Fresh:14

Rotten:100

Average Rating:3.5/10

Consensus: Feels more like a calculated product designed to expand the Olsens' brand than an actual movie. Also, it contains ethnic stereotyping and sexual innuendo.

Rated: PG [See Full Rating] for mild sensuality and thematic elements

Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release:30-07-2004

Synopsis: Today is the biggest day in the super-organized life of uptight overachiever Jane Ryan (ASHLEY OLSEN). She's due to give a major speech at Columbia University for a competition to win a... Today is the biggest day in the super-organized life of uptight overachiever Jane Ryan (ASHLEY OLSEN). She's due to give a major speech at Columbia University for a competition to win a prestigious scholarship to Oxford University. Meanwhile, her rebellious sister Roxy (MARY-KATE OLSEN) is planning to ditch school and go backstage at a Simple Plan music video shoot in Manhattan, where she'll slip her demo tape to the band's A & R team. Despite having so little in common and so much emotional distance between them, the adversarial sisters reluctantly journey together to the Big Apple, but their plans go wildly awry when a mix-up involving Jane's all-important dayplanner lands them in the middle of a shady black market music piracy scheme. Sidetracked, sideswiped and hotly pursued from Chinatown to Harlem by whacked-out truancy officer (EUGENE LEVY) and a wannabe gangster (ANDY RICHTER), Jane and Roxy reluctantly join forces and find unexpected romance with a charming Senator's son (JARED PADALECKI) and a handsome bike messenger (RILEY SMITH). If Jane doesn't recover her dayplanner - and the crucial speech inside it - she can kiss her college scholarship goodbye. If Lomax finally catches up with Roxy, she'll be drummed out of high school for good. Roxy and Jane seem to have everything going against them…but anything can change in a New York Minute! Joining the cast of the New York Minute cast are DARRELL HAMMOND (Saturday Night Live) as a business executive with bad luck; ANDREA MARTIN (My Big Fat Greek Wedding) as an influential senator; MARY BOND DAVIS (Broadway's Hairspray) as a beautician with a bag of blinged-out tricks; radio personality DR. DREW PINSKY (Loveline) making his feature film debut as Roxy and Jane's dad; and JACK OSBOURNE (The Osbournes), in his feature film debut as Roxy's band manager. [More]

Starring: Ashley Olsen, Mary-Kate Olsen, Eugene Levy, Riley Smith

Starring: Ashley Olsen, Mary-Kate Olsen, Eugene Levy, Riley Smith, Jared Padalecki, Andy Richter, Darrell Hammond, Andrea Martin, Jack Osbourne, Dr. Drew, Mary Bond Davis

Director: Dennie Gordon

Director: Dennie Gordon
Screenwriter: Emily Fox, Adam Cooper, William Collage
Producer: Denise DiNovi, Robert Thorne, Christine Sacani, Ashley Olsen, Mary-Kate Olsen
Composer: George S. Clinton
Studio: Warner Bros.

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Full Review Source: ViewLondon | comment Comment
08/07/04
Matthew Turner
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon

Separately the characters are annoying; together it's unnervingly like watching one actress playing twins.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
07/30/04
Angie Errigo
Angie Errigo
Empire Magazine
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A hectic, overcooked sugar rush of a movie.

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07/20/04
Neil Smith
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04/29/09
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10/18/08
Urban Cinefile Critics
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Most viewers will likely be checking their watches, probably wishing this Minute were gone in 60 seconds.

Full Review Source: Christianity Today | comment Comment
11/02/06
Mary Lasse
Mary Lasse
Christianity Today
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Jeffrey M. Anderson
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Full Review Source: Zap2it.com | comment Comment
12/19/04
Hanh Nguyen
Hanh Nguyen
Zap2it.com

[The stars] never attempt to do anything outside their limited range; like, for example, act.

Full Review Source: Las Vegas Mercury | comment Comment
11/04/04
Anthony Del Valle
Anthony Del Valle
Las Vegas Mercury

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Full Review Source: tonymedley.com | comment Comment
10/07/04
Tony Medley
Tony Medley
tonymedley.com

Stanley Kubrick once said, 'If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.' Obviously, he had never seen the script for New York Minute.

Full Review Source: DVDTown.com | comment Comment
09/02/04
John J. Puccio
John J. Puccio
DVDTown.com

Histrionically speaking, the Olsens couldn't be called twin peaks, but they're getting there.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
08/08/04
Harry Haun
Harry Haun
Film Journal International

Esta atrocidade poderia representar um embaraço para todos os envolvidos, caso estes tivessem algum senso de ridículo – o que, a julgar por este longa, não parece ser o caso.

Full Review Source: Cinema em Cena | comment Comment
07/19/04
Pablo Villaca
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena

If this is family entertainment, why do the Olsen twins spend 25 percent of the movie naked?

Full Review Source: Flak Magazine | comment Comment
06/01/04
Stephen Himes
Stephen Himes
Flak Magazine

Who would have thunk the twins from The Shining should have their own movie?

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
05/28/04
Collin Souter
Collin Souter
eFilmCritic.com

Mayhem rules and this slapstick comedy offer a lot of action, sudden turns, and some wild and crazy stuff.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Spectrum | comment Comment
05/25/04
Vince Koehler
Vince Koehler
Entertainment Spectrum

...too much eye-liner and not enough talent...

Full Review Source: Talking Pictures (U.S.) | comment Comment
05/20/04
Tony Toscano
Tony Toscano
Talking Pictures (U.S.)

New York Minute is a deep incision, part of our ongoing national lobotomy.

Full Review Source: Mixed Reviews | comment Comment
05/16/04
Martin Scribbs
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