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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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Reviews for It Takes Two
It's so featherbrained and lightweight, it almost elevates its inconsequence into a style.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A harmless caper that ought to thrill girls under 12, and offer modest diversion to their parents.
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.
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