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best movie i've ever seen.

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

"The Parent Trap II," might loosely be considered a sequel to the 1961 Walt Disney smash hit, "The Parent Trap." The story is different and the cast is mostly changed. The only thing that ties it to the original is Hayley Mills who now plays grown-up twins around their mid-30s. Sharon Ferris is a single-parent mother raising her daughter, Nikki (played by Carrie Kei Heim). They live in the Tampa Bay area but Sharon plans to move to New York City for a new job. Nikki is about 10 years old and has a best friend, Mary Grand (played by Bridgette Andersen). Mary's dad, Bill (played by Tom Skerritt) is a single parent. The girls are distraught over the thought of being split up with Nikki's move, so they devise a plan to try to get their parents together and married. Hayley's twin sister now comes into the picture. Nikki's Aunt Susan Carey lives in California. By stretching one's imagination to include the far- fetched or unbelievable, one will accept the plot in which Nikki convinces her Aunt Susan to help set up the match. All she has to do is fly from California to Florida (while her husband is off flying commercial jetliners), remain incognito from her own sister, and impersonate her sister for one or two encounters and dates with Bill. This, of course, is to make him think she is Sharon, Nikki's mom.OK, so we viewers can accept that as necessary for such a wacky story in the first place. The film has some instances of good humor. The two young girls are the best part of the movie. But, in their conniving and plotting, we see some dishonesty and other character flaws that I don't think many parents want to encourage or condone in their children. However cute they may be. But overall, this film isn't very good. The idea had possibility but the plot seems to have holes and the screenplay is poorly done. It lacks a thread of energy and continuity. It comes across as a bunch of small vignettes pieced together to make the story. And the acting of the adults is sub-par to a person. Again, it could be due to a weak script and/or poor direction. There are times when Skerritt's character has long pauses and doesn't seem to know what to say next. Mills, in both characters, seems hesitant at times and wooden at other times. The story is a little interesting and had some possibilities – although far-fetched. The acting by the two young girls is good, and their scheming is OK (except for that character building aspect). But otherwise, this film doesn't cut it. If this is a typical example of Hayley Mills' later career and acting, I can see why her movie career tanked by the time she was 30. She was 40 years old when this TV film was made. I would imagine Tom Skerritt would just as soon forget that he made this film.

I like this movie. I am an adult female in my 20's and when I was little this was a favorite of mine. It's very cute, and it portrays well how friends are as children. I mean, when I was little my friends and I used to giggle and talk about how cool it would be if we were sisters (although we never actually tried to make it happen). This is just a fun movie. But...this movie, in my opinion, has very little to do with the original. Thank goodness it at least had Hayley Mills in it. Other than that and a brief reference or two to the original (like a picture of the young Susan/Sharon in a tent while camping), Parent Trap II is it's own separate movie. I think fans of the original such as myself would have LOVED for a Parent Trap sequel to focus on more other characters from the first one. We don't find out how Mom and Dad are doing (Mitch and Maggie), and we don't know anything about Susan's children that she says "are in camp." I realize that the focus is on Sharon's daughter Nikki and that's what Parent Trap II is based on. It would have been so nice to have more in the movie with details of the whole family. So it's better to watch this movie as it's own original, while getting a little kick out of seeing Hayley as a mom, but if you love the original don't expect that same magic.

OK, so looking back on this movie now that I'm an adult, I realize it is probably not the most quality movie I have ever seen. But as a kid, I loved it. I taped it off of the Wonderful World of Disney and watched it over and over. There are some very funny lines, and I love how the maid is nosy, just like in the first movie. But my main problem is how can Haley Mills, a blond, have a daughter who's a red head? If you loved the first Parent Trap, see the sequel, just so you can know what happens to Susan and Sharon once they're all grown up.Favorite line: "All right, but he's really cute. For a minute I thought he was Ralph Machio."

Talk about a bad sequel. Don't see this film-then again you probably can't. It was a made for TV film, and I have only seen it aired late at night on the Disney channel since. Bad script...bad acting... bad movie... stay with the original. 1/5 stars--JOHN ULMER