It takes two - 1995

The Olsen little girls were really cute, and this movie is all about them and for those who liked them, because there isn't much else. The story is very simple: two children casually meet and realize they are identical and also in a period of crisis in their young life: Amanda is an orphan and she's about to be adopted by an horrible family, while Alyssa is a very rich girl but her father, a widow convinced she needs a mom, is about to marry Miss Kensington (Jane Sibbet), a woman who doesn't like her and is only waiting after the wedding to send her away. The girls switch places to throw off those plans, and they also arrange something else. They have Alyssa's father Roger Callaway (Steve Guttenberg) meet Amanda's social worker and wanna-be-mom Diane (Kirstie Alley) and they fall in love, but this doesn't change a thing. Alyssa (posing as Amanda) is sent away to be adopted by a couple who already adopted other kids in order to make them work, and Amanda (posing as Alyssa) is about to witness Roger's wedding. Clarice Kensington saw him laughing with Diane but said nothing, instead she convinced him to speed up the wedding plans.
Diane rescues Alyssa and they run to the church where Roger does not say I do because he confesses he loves Diane. Happy ending for everybody, I'll say, because it will not be difficult now for Diane to get custody of Amanda if she marries millionaire  Roger.
Well, Jane Sibbet was fun :-) but the story lacks heart. The girls are fun and pretty, but the love story lacks everything. They fall in love with no reason at all, and he was getting married for the wrong, absurd reason in the first place. It seems by his words that he thought Alyssa needed a mother, but he seriously thought that Miss Kensington was a suitable mother? Come on, why didn't he try to find someone more like his beloved wife, meaning someone sweet and good? Besides, I don't like the scenes where one of them (bride or groom) says 'I can't' right there at the altar; I mean, do they have to wait until the very last second??? They come to church, they stand there, they wait for the priest to say what he has to say, then instead of I do they say I can't ... I don't like it, he shouldn't have been standing there in the first place!!!
That's what he likes in Diane I guess, that she's more down-to-earth and fun, how much time did they spend together? Two hours maybe? Is that enough to be called love?
Well, as I said, it's a nice enough movie if you like 9-year-old Mary-Kate and Ashley. Otherwise it doesn't have much to offer.


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