When they try throwing their parents together on a reunion date, the girls rent a yacht, prompting Quaid's character to articulate the film's great, unspoken question: "So, how exactly are we paying for all this?" There areĪlso trips to a picture-perfect camp and elaborate promotions for one hotel and one ocean liner worked into the story. Lohan into a fashion shoot.) That's nothing. So this "Parent Trap" discovers, when the girls switch identities, that neither of them has been living in a coal mine.ĭad's place is a Napa Valley vineyard with a conspicuous art collection, while mother resides in London and designs chic bridal gowns. Somehow, in ways the film hasn't a prayer of explaining, their mother (a radiant Natasha Richardson) and father (Dennis Quaid, heartily paternal) have not spoken since their no-fault divorce, which left not a single hurt feeling orĬlearly, fantasy is the order of the day. Lohan easily makes it credible that the two girlsĬould switch places and hornswoggle their credulous parents. Trading off English and American accents, and flouncing through about as many costume changes as there were in "Evita" (both films have the same costume designer, Penny Rose), Ms. Miss Lohan, a Ford model at 3 and then a very busy 10-year-old on "Another World," plays the dual role with apparent effortlessnessĪnd with so much forcefulness that she seems to have been taking shy violet lessons from Sharon Stone. The twins, Hallie and Annie, are both played with take-charge gusto by red-haired Lindsay Lohan.
On the evidence of this film's materialistic daydreams, which are extravagantly illustrated by the "Father of the Bride" team of Nancy Meyer and Charles Shyer, the twins' parents have spent all of the intervening time The story of twins who have been separated at birth and find themselves reunited at a summer camp, in this case 11 and a half years later. He lavish, super-cute new version of "The Parent Trap" is a remake of the 1961 Hayley Mills hit, which was seriously adorable in its own right. The New York Times on the Web: Current Film.'The Parent Trap': Sisters, Sisters, So Cute and So Well-Dressed
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