This movie is cheesy and dumb. There are lots of plot holes and bad acting. Overall this movie is entertaining. I wouldn't recommend it, but if you have to watch it then go ahead..

This is one of those few movies that I can watch again and again. There are so many parts of it that I love so much. There are so many tender moments. And also so many laugh out louds. I don't LOL much any more for movies or TV, but I do in this movie, even after watching it so many times.Some of my favorite scenes are the firsts for each girl. Hallie seeing London and her mom. Annie seeing California and her dad. Chessy figuring it out and trying to hold back tears. Grandfather at the phone booth. Hallie pulling the covers over head and saying we have to go see Annie. Nick in the elevator seeing Elizabeth. If you can watch all these things and more happen and go "ho hum", I guess you won't like this movie, but for me they all hit me in the gut every time.The choreography, if you can call it that, is wonderful especially at the hotel. Nick tells one girl, Hallie I think, to watch Meredith. Then he runs into Annie on a different floor and isn't quite sure. And it just keeps going.And I haven't even gotten to the tricks the girls played on Cruella. After the face-off between Meredith and Annie, you knew it was going to come to that.Oh Lindsay Lohan, you were so good and then you grew up.Natasha Richardson overplayed some things just a little, especially the drunk. But it still mostly fits in this type of movie. Likewise Simon Kunz.

I will never not love Disney's The Parent Trap. It's pure escapist fun with a delightful setup that pays off big time with laughs, heart and and a classic story of mistaken identity. Lindsey Lohan, back when she still resembled a human being, is endlessly adorable as both sides of a set of twins, separated at birth, who meet serendipitously at summer camp. Hallie is a laid back California chick with attitude to spare, and Annie a buttoned down, introverted London gal. They cross paths, become the best of friends and each begin to yearn for the parent they never had. Soon they hatch a cunning plan to switch places on their parents in hopes of getting them back together. At the end of the summer Annie goes back to Napa Valley as Halley, and Halley to London, as Annie. That's when the fun really begins. Dennis Quaid displays his easygoing charm and mile wide smile as their father, a vineyard owner, and Natasha Richardson (RIP:() is heavenly as their radiant mother, a wedding dress designer. Veteran DOP Dean Cundey expertly sails through London archways and sweeping sun dappled valleys, creating a gorgeous playground for the actors to bring this excellent comedy, with surprisingly mature emotional beats, to life. The plot draws us in further as the girls attempt to sabotage Quaid's wedding to a horrible gold digging banshee (Elaine Hendrix, syrupy slime). It's all set to a lighthearted comforting rhythm, and looks fantastic on scree. I grew up with this one, and keep revisiting it again and again.

Their parents divorced when they were babies, Mum Elizabeth raising Annie in London and Dad Nick raising Hallie in California, and neither of the identical twin girls knew the other existed. They meet at summer camp and decide to switch places so that they can both get to know the missing parent they have always yearned for, with a view to reuniting them. Their plan becomes complicated because Nick is planning to marry golddigger Meredith.Walt Disney's 1998 remake of its earlier version has 11-year old Lindsey Lohan replacing Hayley Mills in the dual roles of Hallie and Annie. The rest of the cast, headed by Dennis Quaid as Nick and Natasha Richardson as Lizzie, are all excellent, but Lohan is superb. She creates two characters who are similar but different, and copes easily with four accents - English, American, English doing American and American doing English. The special effects which place her in the same scene with herself are superb: the split screen of the original version is enhanced with digital effects which are absolutely seamless.And the film - which doesn't bear close examination in terms of plot, though that really doesn't matter- is huge fun, performed with great good humour, and some emotional heart.