Having made several direct-to-video forgettables, the Olsens somehow believe they're ready for the big screen. They're not.
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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Reviews for New York Minute
The sheer oddness of this moment cannot be overstated, as the Olsens are exemplary narrow-bottomed white girls.
If it actually lived up to its title and lasted a mere New York minute, it might be tolerable. Unfortunately, it drags on for ninety-three ordinary ones, and it's not.
The sense of calculation is overwhelming, down to the loose threads on Roxy's Metallica T-shirt.
When Bob Saget is the best thing you have going for you in a movie, you're up the creek ... New York Minute may be the worst movie I have ever seen.
Aptly named "Minute" moves easily enough (despite) a silly, shallow screenplay laden with so much more absurdity than any screwball comedy should tolerate.
Add a full star if you’ve ever wasted an afternoon dreaming up similar adventures with your Barbie dolls.
The girls learn the value of sisterhood during an afternoon full of freaky encounters with other ethnic groups.
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off re-enacted by over-sensualized, underage spider-monkeys.
Will satisfy young girls and dudes horny for Mary-Kate and Ashley, but anyone looking for wit or originality better look elsewhere.
Harmless, sweet and sprightly — but wholly devoid of original thought.
Shouts out a substantial sense of Girl Power to a large and loyal fan base that can officially count me as one of their number.
Interesting that the two groups naturally attracted to it are pre-teen girls and dirty old men, and what it does best is teach the one how to be attractive to the other.
An off-putting assault of too-screwball comedy with glints of pathos.
The movie flows nicely from one wacky episode to the next, and the Olsen girls make pleasant company.
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