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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.

Rated: PG [See Full Rating] for mild sensuality and thematic elements

Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins

Genre: Comedies

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... 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 prestigious scholarship to Oxford University. Meanwhile, her rebellious sister Roxy (MARY-KATE OLSEN) is planning to ditch school and go backstage at a Simple Plan music video shoot in Manhattan, where she'll slip her demo tape to the band's A & R team. Despite having so little in common and so much emotional distance between them, the adversarial sisters reluctantly journey together to the Big Apple, but their plans go wildly awry when a mix-up involving Jane's all-important dayplanner lands them in the middle of a shady black market music piracy scheme. Sidetracked, sideswiped and hotly pursued from Chinatown to Harlem by whacked-out truancy officer (EUGENE LEVY) and a wannabe gangster (ANDY RICHTER), Jane and Roxy reluctantly join forces and find unexpected romance with a charming Senator's son (JARED PADALECKI) and a handsome bike messenger (RILEY SMITH). If Jane doesn't recover her dayplanner - and the crucial speech inside it - she can kiss her college scholarship goodbye. If Lomax finally catches up with Roxy, she'll be drummed out of high school for good. Roxy and Jane seem to have everything going against them…but anything can change in a New York Minute! Joining the cast of the New York Minute cast are DARRELL HAMMOND (Saturday Night Live) as a business executive with bad luck; ANDREA MARTIN (My Big Fat Greek Wedding) as an influential senator; MARY BOND DAVIS (Broadway's Hairspray) as a beautician with a bag of blinged-out tricks; radio personality DR. DREW PINSKY (Loveline) making his feature film debut as Roxy and Jane's dad; and JACK OSBOURNE (The Osbournes), in his feature film debut as Roxy's band manager. [More]

Starring: Ashley Olsen, Mary-Kate Olsen, Eugene Levy, Riley Smith

Starring: Ashley Olsen, Mary-Kate Olsen, Eugene Levy, Riley Smith, Jared Padalecki, Andy Richter, Darrell Hammond, Andrea Martin, Jack Osbourne, Dr. Drew, Mary Bond Davis

Director: Dennie Gordon

Director: Dennie Gordon
Screenwriter: Emily Fox, Adam Cooper, William Collage
Producer: Denise DiNovi, Robert Thorne, Christine Sacani, Ashley Olsen, Mary-Kate Olsen
Composer: George S. Clinton
Studio: Warner Bros.

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...a big-screen feature with a direct-to-video plot.

Full Review Source: Hollywood.com | comment Comment
05/07/04
Guylaine Cadorette
Guylaine Cadorette
Hollywood.com

The Olsens go the Britney route in this unfortunate Minute

Full Review Source: Washington Times | comment Comment
05/07/04
Christian Toto
Christian Toto
Washington Times

Comes with an inherent disclaimer that nobody but 11-year-old girls are going to dig it.

Full Review Source: Planet Sick-Boy | comment Comment
05/07/04
Jon Popick
Jon Popick
Planet Sick-Boy

As Ashley whines while slogging with Mary-Kate through a sewer: "There is no bright side!"

Full Review Source: www.susangranger.com | comment Comment
05/07/04
Susan Granger
Susan Granger
www.susangranger.com

There is not a minute of it that makes sense. Cause and effect are meaningless. There is no real humor. It is a dour trainwreck of a faux-screwball movie.

Full Review Source: EricDSnider.com | comment Comment
05/06/04
Eric D. Snider
Eric D. Snider
EricDSnider.com

Here's a movie aimed at young girls that must have been created with the 'tired businessman' -- or at least the hormonally charged older brother -- squarely in mind.

Full Review Source: Kalamazoo Gazette | comment Comment
05/06/04
James Sanford
James Sanford
Kalamazoo Gazette

Even more insipid than you'd guess, Minute is infrequently made bearable by the cutie-quotient of its richer-than-sin leads.

Full Review Source: USA Today | comment Comment
05/06/04
Mike Clark
Mike Clark
USA Today
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It's generally good policy to be wary of entertainers who are more famous for their product lines than actually performing.

Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | comment Comment
05/06/04
Bill Muller
Bill Muller
Arizona Republic
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A packed-to-the-rafters theater (including 82 males) can't be wrong...

Full Review Source: IGN Movies | comment Comment
05/06/04
Marc Nix
Marc Nix
IGN Movies

It's like watching your neighbor's modestly talented daughters perform -- they're dutiful and hard-working, but oddly uncomfortable considering that they've been in front of cameras since the age of one.

Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | comment Comment
05/06/04
Jim Lane
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review

Mary-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.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
05/06/04
A.O. Scott
A.O. Scott
New York Times
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There's a sense that it's straining to reach the core mom-daughter audience that made Freaky Friday a success last year.

Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | comment Comment
05/06/04
Nancy Churnin
Nancy Churnin
Dallas Morning News
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The cast is cute and the action is colorful, but the comedy isn't as captivating as it sets out to be.

Full Review Source: Christian Science Monitor | comment Comment
05/06/04
David Sterritt
David Sterritt
Christian Science Monitor

OK, 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.

Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press | comment Comment
05/06/04
John Monaghan
John Monaghan
Detroit Free Press

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen ... have evolved into nimble comic actresses, with expressive voices and sharp timing.

Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press | comment Comment
05/06/04
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press

Moldering glob of spun sugar.

Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer | comment Comment
05/06/04
Carrie Rickey
Carrie Rickey
Philadelphia Inquirer
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A coy, frantic attempt at screwball comedy, lightly seasoned and more than a little gummy.

Full Review Source: Newsday | comment Comment
05/06/04
Gene Seymour
Gene Seymour
Newsday
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As sterile and devoid of personality as a mall parking lot.

Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | comment Comment
05/06/04
Colin Covert
Colin Covert
Minneapolis Star Tribune

Instantly forgettable thanks to a mediocre screenplay.

Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice | comment Comment
05/06/04
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olson are not actresses and they are not movie stars. What they are is a brand.

Full Review Source: Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies | comment Comment
05/06/04
Nell Minow
Nell Minow
Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
 
 
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