Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen… I know it’s been a while since Full House.
If you’re like me, you might have missed most of their home videos
including The Case of Sea World Adventure, The Case of Mystery Cruise,The Case of Fun House Mystery, and other riveting cases including but not limited to, The Hotel-who-done-it, Shark Encounter, U.S. Space Adventure and Volcano Mystery.
While everyone is shaking their heads at these titles with some
confusion, some of you are lying because they have accumulated a
billion dollar empire as a result of these videos and other stuff sold
at your local K-Mart. Now they’ve taken some of the money out of their
Scrooge McDuck money bin and invested it in a multi-million dollar
mainstream teen comedy-adventure.
For what it’s worth, it did its job. New York Minute is a fast paced,
trendy film with a strong supporting cast that most children and
pre-adolescents will enjoy. Actually, it might even be safe to say that
if you’re reading this review, you probably will have no control over
whether you go to this movie or not because either your kids will make
you or they won’t. If you’re going on your own power or you don’t like
surprises, read on.
Mary-Kate and Ashley play completely opposite twins, Roxy and Jane
Ryan. While Jane is getting a 4.2 G.P.A. and applying for a fellowship
at Oxford University, Roxy is skipping school and rocking out to punk
in her spare time. The whole plot revolves around how Jane is giving a
speech to attain her fellowship at Colombia University while Roxy is
skipping school to attend a Simple Plan video shoot.
Then their misadventures start. In a blur of montages, the girls get
pursued by a pseudo-Chinese mobster, played oddly enough by Andy
Richter, whose bad Chinese accent and pasty complexion give New York
Minute a villain with the vision of a silly Conan O’Brien sketch. The
other factor that the girls have to worry about is truancy officer Max
Lomax, played by Eugene Levy. Eugene Levy still plays the socially
inept awkward dad that gives a subtle reminder to the hilarity of
American Pie. Both characters round out the villain department and
allow the movie to progress quickly with little doubt that the girls
will be fine by the end of the film.
There are other people in this film including Daryl Hammond, who plays
Hudson McGill, the trustee of the fellowship that Jane is striving for
and Jack Osborne, who makes his film debut as Roxy’s band manager,
Justin.
With all the cameos and rapid transitions, kids love this movie and you
