... an awful film.
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05/13/04
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New York Minute (2004)
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Reviews Counted:30
Fresh:4
Rotten:26
Average Rating:3.8/10
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:May 7, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $14,018,364
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
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Reviews for New York Minute
Top CriticTo 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
Top CriticFalls somewhere between a home video and a full-blown movie.
05/07/04
Top CriticThe 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
Top CriticIn trying to straddle both the grown-up and kiddie worlds with this inappropriately sexualized effort ... the Olsens have lost their footing.
05/07/04
Top CriticCarefully designed for maximum blandness.
05/07/04
Top CriticViewers likely will have more patience counting down the Olsen twins' last days of childhood than sitting through their film.
05/07/04
Top CriticThe effect isn't just frenetic, unfunny and dull. It's kind of creepy.
05/07/04
Top CriticIt's a charming, zestful romp.
05/07/04
Top CriticThe unapologetic, no-consequence nature of the characters' activities here, as well as the constant flow of dress-them-up Barbie outfits the twins don, wallow in the worst sort of amorality and image-is- everything indulgence.
05/07/04
Top CriticAs coy sleaze goes, the new Olsen twins' movie doesn't match Britney Spears's Crossroads, but it comes close.
05/07/04
Top CriticEngineered to provide the same level of entertainment as a sugar rush, this frantic teen (pre-teen?) fantasy has the feel of something concocted in a lab specializing in energy drinks and peachy complexions.
05/07/04
Top CriticPut the blame on a script that maims the movie's middling intentions by playing New York City's ethnic vibrancy as either obvious joke or more obvious menace.
05/07/04
Top CriticA textbook example of a film created as a 'vehicle' but without any ideas about where the vehicle should go.
05/07/04
Top CriticFor those not part of the Olsen industrial complex, New York Minute often feels creepy and lecherous, like it was made by a family 'uncle.'
05/07/04
Top CriticEven more insipid than you'd guess, Minute is infrequently made bearable by the cutie-quotient of its richer-than-sin leads.
05/06/04
Top CriticIt's generally good policy to be wary of entertainers who are more famous for their product lines than actually performing.
05/06/04
Top CriticMary-Kate and Ashley sprint through Manhattan on the run from a truant officer and a limo driver in this crisp and professional teenage caper comedy.
05/06/04
Top CriticThere's a sense that it's straining to reach the core mom-daughter audience that made Freaky Friday a success last year.
05/06/04
Top CriticOK, it's not like I'm ready to join the local chapter of the Ashley and Mary-Kate fan club, but I admit it: I kind of liked New York Minute.
05/06/04
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June 01, 2004:
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