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Review:
 Now one
would wonder why someone like Eugene Levy would do something like
this. Is he beginning to run out of money? Did he lose a bet? Was
he blackmailed? One can ask the same thing with Darrell Hammond.
Why would he take a dive like this?
The Olsen twins have been making very bad, yet profitable
direct to video movies ever since they were in single digits. They
were, and are, very cute despite the fact that their ourve is for
the must part unwatchable. Now that they’re about to turn 18, we
get to see them graduate to the big screen at last, but the
results are the same as before. Ikkkkkkkkkkk!
The script by Emily Fox, Adam Cooper and Bill Collage to begin
with seems like it was done with ten sided dice and a copy of an
old "Mad Libs" game. The comedy is forced and is painful to watch.
Jane Ryan (Ashley Olsen) is an overachiever who’s going to make a
speech at Columbia university in order to compete for a
scholarship to Oxford, three thousand miles away from her punker/Britney
Spears wannabe slacker sister Roxy (Mary-Kate Olsen), who’s
cutting school to give her demo CD to some execs at a video shoot
for Simple Plan. Hot on her trail is a whacked-Out Truancy Officer
named Max Lomax (Eugene Levy), who’s been trying to get her for
years. [Do they even HAVE truancy officers any more?]
There’s some stupidity with a Chinese plot to pirate every
piece of music ever recorded on a chip which is, as always, eaten
by a dog. Andy Richter embarrasses himself mightily as the villian.
I don’t know. I’m not a twelve year old girl, which is it’s
target audience. If I were, there might be some enjoyment to be
had. But when one spends most of a film covering one’s eyes in
pain from the horror of a piece of garbage like this, then one can
not recommend this to anyone at all. Stay away at all costs.
Eric Lurio
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