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05/08/04
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.
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... [More]
Starring: Ashley Olsen, Mary-Kate Olsen, Eugene Levy, Riley Smith
Director: Dennie Gordon
Reviews for New York Minute
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05/08/04
Overly broad and silly at times.
05/08/04
The further you are from being a teenage girl, the less likely this movie is going to appeal to you.
05/07/04
The weakest part of New York Minute turns out to be the Olsen Twins themselves.
05/07/04
To say that New York Minute is a vehicle for the Olsen sisters is perhaps a slight to four-wheeled conveyances of all kinds.
05/07/04
Gordon keeps the pace brisk, and between makeovers and pratfalls, the girls deliver an easy-to-swallow dose of girl power.
05/07/04
Even when it feels forced, the Olsen twins' appeal -- I freely admit -- remains a two-for-one bargain.
05/07/04
Falls somewhere between a home video and a full-blown movie.
05/07/04
Veteran observers of the small and famous may watch Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen in New York Minute, and think: Pia Zadora, even smaller, but doubled.
05/07/04
The surprise is that it's the kind of larky entertainment that can make adults feel younger, rather than older, which is the effect that most films for teens have on their elders.
05/07/04
I would rather watch these girls charm their way into Oxford and play a David Bowie cover (good taste, Mary-Kate) than Britney dealing with her pregnant friend's miscarriage in Crossroads.
05/07/04
The Olsen girls were produced in Burbank, Calif.'s cute-kid laboratories for Full House, have since made more than 40 movies and TV shows. They appear grimly determined to be cute co-stars until their 2055 version of The Sunshine Girls.
05/07/04
If there was any doubt that this Olsen twins vehicle would be targeted directly at the dirty old men of the Internet who know just how many days remain before the gals turn 18, it evaporates minutes into the flick.
05/07/04
Pure pablum and tiresome in the bargain.
05/07/04
Oh, yes, New York belongs to the Olsen twins, not vice versa. There's enough self-love to fuel a Streisand film.
05/07/04
The story is supposed to be about the twins' adventures in Manhattan. Mostly it's an excuse for the two to visit different neighborhoods and the script to drag in every stereotype the writers can think of.
05/07/04
In trying to straddle both the grown-up and kiddie worlds with this inappropriately sexualized effort ... the Olsens have lost their footing.
05/07/04
Carefully designed for maximum blandness.
05/07/04
The only thing missing is a laugh track.
05/07/04
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