Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Farce, Teenage, Kidnapping
Plot: Today is the biggest day in the super-organized life of uptight overachiever Jane Ryan (ASHLEY OLSEN). She’s due to give a major speech at Columbia University for a competition to win a prestigious scholarship to Oxford University.Meanwhile, her rebellious sister Roxy (MARY-KATE OLSEN) is planning to ditch school and go backstage at a Simple Plan music video shoot in Manhattan, where she’ll slip her demo tape to the band’s A & R team. Despite having so little in common and so much emotional distance between them, the adversarial sisters reluctantly journey together to the Big Apple, but their plans go wildly awry when a mix-up involving Jane’s all-important dayplanner lands them in the middle of a shady black market music piracy scheme. Sidetracked, sideswiped and hotly pursued from Chinatown to Harlem by whacked-out truancy officer (EUGENE LEVY) and a wannabe gangster (ANDY RICHTER), Jane and Roxy reluctantly join forces and find unexpected romance with a charming Senator’s son (JARED PADALECKI) and a handsome bike messenger (RILEY SMITH). If Jane doesn’t recover her dayplanner – and the crucial speech inside it – she can kiss her college scholarship goodbye. If Lomax finally catches up with Roxy, she’ll be drummed out of high school for good. Roxy and Jane seem to
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 New York Minute may indeed be the dumbest movie of the year, and if you go into the movie hating the Olsen girls, don't expect this to change your mind.-- (ComingSoon.net)
Speaking of money, don’t the Olsens have enough moolah to purchase a smarter screenplay? Half the Minute jokes involve toilet seats and dog poop, while the other half drop obvious hints at the girls’ not-so-secret sexuality.  --Sean O'Connell (FilmCritic.com)
The movie offers the spectacle of two cheerful and attractive 17-year-olds who have the maturity of two silly 13-year-olds, and romp through a day's adventures in Manhattan, a city that in this movie is populated entirely by hyperactive character actors.  --Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times)
I must admit, to have a film about teenagers that doesn’t feature cliques, high school, or 80s nostalgia is nice, and the Olsen sisters deserve some credit for avoiding these plots that have recently clogged the marketplace. But a fresh angle on teendom isn’t enough to excuse the rest of this shrill picture. D+--Brian Orndorf (FilmJerk.com)
The Twins spend so much time trying to appease their Creepy Old Man fan base that they almost completely alienate their core audience of prepubescent girls. It’s another sign of the apocalypse, I tell you!  --B. Alan Orange (MovieWeb)
Some day they will dig New York Minute out of the time capsule and it will offer a perfect 88 minute explanation of what happened to our civilization.  --Blake Snyder (MovieWeb)
"New York Minute" will satisfy young girls and dudes horny for Mary-Kate and Ashley, but anyone looking for wit or originality better look elsewhere.  --Kevin N. Laforest (Montreal Film Journal)
The further you are from being a teenage girl, the less likely this movie is going to appeal to you. 67/100--Mike DeWolfe (Apollo Guide)
New York Minute is the kind of winking, disingenuous youth comedy that tries to play it both ways, dangling the twins as fetish objects and then yanking them back on the leash because, you know, this is a family film.  --Marrit Ingman (Austin Chronicle)
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Ashley Olsen
The Little Rascals, It Takes Two, Passport to Paris |
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 | Eugene Levy
American Pie, American Pie 2, American Wedding |
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 | Riley Smith
Eight Legged Freaks, Radio, Spring Break Shark Attack |
 | Andrea Martin
My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Wag the Dog, Hedwig and the Angry Inch |
 | Jack Osbourne
The Osbourne Family Christmas Special, MTV Australia Video Music Awards 2005 |
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George S. Clinton
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Austin Powers in Goldmember |
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