It's an idiotic and utterly bogus confection, as it must be, but at least it has a pleasing level of pacing (it scoots along without screeching) and some minor-key subversive flashes.
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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.
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
It's as if someone took three or four of the Adventures of Mary-Kate and Ashley videos and stitched them together in a way that is convoluted and strangely plotless.
05/07/04
Ashley and Mary-Kate are passable actors, which puts them in the same league as Hilary Duff, Amanda Bynes and Mandy Moore, but light years behind Allison Loman.
05/07/04
Just know that it never gets sitcomish enough to make adults squirm with homicidal rage, it's fun to watch and your pre-adolescent will love it.
05/07/04
Viewers 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
Uncle Jesse and Joey must have been too busy to make appearances. Lucky them.
05/07/04
It'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
As coy sleaze goes, the new Olsen twins' movie doesn't match Britney Spears's Crossroads, but it comes close.
05/07/04
Top CriticThere are so many completely laughless stretches that this under-90-minutes feature feels considerably longer.
05/07/04
Engineered 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
A textbook example of a film created as a 'vehicle' but without any ideas about where the vehicle should go.
05/07/04
Top CriticAfter a brisk opening half-hour, New York Minute's promising start devolves into a parade of chase and slapstick bits you've seen a dozen times before.
05/07/04
For 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 Critic[T]here’s [a] side to the film that nauseates me: the PG-porn undertone...
05/07/04
[It] has the creepy effect of ensuring we see the Olsens as sexually awakened young women -- all within the confines of a PG rating.
05/07/04
A passable few hours of screwball teen comedy clichés and two almost-adults running around in nothing but terrycloth towels.
05/07/04
This movie is for Olsen twin fans - and nobody else.
05/07/04
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