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It Takes Two

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It Takes Two (1995)

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Reviews Counted:23

Fresh:2

Rotten:21

Average Rating:3.9/10

Runtime: 1 hr 47 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: Tomboy Amanda resides in a Manhattan orphanage, where she receives lots of attention from social worker Diane Barrows, whom she adores. Alyssa is the cultured daughter of rich widower Roger... Tomboy Amanda resides in a Manhattan orphanage, where she receives lots of attention from social worker Diane Barrows, whom she adores. Alyssa is the cultured daughter of rich widower Roger Calloway, and a dead ringer for Amanda. The two girls meet when Amanda attends a camp near Alyssa's home, and they like each other so much that they hatch a plan: to match Diane with Roger, so they can all live together happily ever after. But there's a fly in the ointment -- Roger's witchy, golddigging, child-hating fiancee Clarice. [More]

Starring: Kirstie Alley, Ashley Olsen, Mary-Kate Olsen, Steve Guttenberg

Starring: Kirstie Alley, Ashley Olsen, Mary-Kate Olsen, Steve Guttenberg, Philip Bosco, Jane Sibbett

Director: Andy Tennant

Director: Andy Tennant

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Release:

Sep 1, 2009

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DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Full Frame - 1.33

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - English, French
  • Subtitles - English, French
 
 
 
 

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A reasonably good take on a great classic.

Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | comment Comment
12/31/02
Janet Branagan
Janet Branagan
Apollo Guide

A rote variation on Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper that is marginally salvaged by those spunky Olsen twins from ABC's Full House.

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01/01/00
Mike Clark
Mike Clark
USA Today
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It's so featherbrained and lightweight, it almost elevates its inconsequence into a style.

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01/01/00
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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A paper-thin, predictable family comedy.

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06/05/02
Michael Haile
Michael Haile
Boxoffice Magazine

It's not a bad little time-waster for the kiddies.

Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
01/01/00
Chris Hicks
Chris Hicks
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

With their perilously wide, Walter Keane eyes, the Olsen twins are cute enough, but compared with other child performers their charms seem forced.

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01/01/00
Hal Hinson
Hal Hinson
Washington Post
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Under the direction of Andy Tennant, the Olsen sisters lay on the icky-poo cuteness with several trowels, often delivering their lines as though they were reciting the alphabet.

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05/20/03
Stephen Holden
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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The film's underlying sentiment is conveyed effectively, if obviously.

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08/03/09
Leonard Klady
Leonard Klady
Variety
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There is little original in the film. Most scenes you have seen countless times before. They even have an old fashion food fight. I thought everyone had gotten tired of seeing them by now.

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01/01/00
Steve Rhodes
Steve Rhodes
Internet Reviews

Alley, who is one of the best comic actresses around, does her best to liven things up, but this movie belongs to the kids. In general, she's fighting a losing battle.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Examiner | comment Comment
01/01/00
Barbara Shulgasser
Barbara Shulgasser
San Francisco Examiner

Writer Deborah Dean Davis and director Andy Tennant are fully aware of the absolute predictability of their material and therefore make the getting to an inevitable ending as much fun as possible.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
02/13/01
Kevin Thomas
Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times
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Adorable munchkins or cloying brats? You be the judge.

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08/03/09
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Alas, the Olsen girls are not immediately heart-warming.

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06/24/06
Time Out

Kids will certainly lap it up but adults will guess the plot after five minutes and be left drumming their fingers for the remaining hour-and-a-half.

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01/01/00
Empire Magazine
N/R

A harmless caper that ought to thrill girls under 12, and offer modest diversion to their parents.

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06/18/02
Edward Guthmann
Edward Guthmann
San Francisco Chronicle
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01/01/00
Susan Stark
Susan Stark
Detroit News
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I'd rather stick a needle in my eye than sit through this again

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09/17/02
Clint Morris
Clint Morris
Moviehole

To quote one of the characters, 'We mustn't! We mustn't!'

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12/18/04
James Sanford
James Sanford
Kalamazoo Gazette

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08/22/03
Carol Cling
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal

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07/21/05
Emanuel Levy
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