Best movie of this year hands down!

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

The parent trap based on the book is about a girl named Susan becoming the rival of Sharon while at summer camp. What makes its odd is both girls look identical, know stories about the other's parent and find out they have been separated by divorce.This time played by Haley Mills, a gifted young address who made this into a box office success and launched her acting career. The fabulous Marean O'Hara and Brian Keith were a delight as the kooky parents to the twins playing off one another anytime they're on screen.The humor was refreshing as its in the arguments the couple has, the twins pranks or fight at camp and the side characters shenanigans making it a memorable experience. I never laughed so hard in a long time.It does drag in places after an exciting first hour as the twins perform a musical number only to eat up screen time and many scenes are spent talking repetitively about the same problems through out.The new love interest wasn't as evil or conniving as the 90s version Mar and made you think how good ole dad couldn't see right through the charade sooner.Another flaw was the slit screen was kinda obvious in certain scenes taking the realism out of focus for a few moments at a time.Still it was a nice way to see a nice, clean, relaxing film.

... is anybody else but me disturbed by the entire premise? Two people divorce, for reasons never spoken in the film, and they literally divide the child in half ala Solomon. One baby of their identical twin girls goes to dad (Brian Keith), and the other to mom (Maureen O'Hara). Not only in the first ten odd years of their lives does neither parent ever see (you don't know if they inquire via the other parent) the other child, they deny to both children the knowledge that they have a sibling! What judge would sign off on this deal? Wouldn't grandparents intervene or try to sneak a peak at the other grandchild in all of this time? Disney seems to have created a world where none of these questions are asked and the parents are free to write up any child custody agreements they care to arrange in a vacuum.Into this rather bizarre arrangement comes a summer camp to mess everything up. The two children end up at the same camp at the same time! Again, big screw up by the parents. One has been raised in upper crust Boston, the other on a ranch in Monterrey. Thus they have nothing in common but their looks. They cause trouble for each other with their pranks, until things escalate to the point that they are punished by being forced to live together in the same cabin in the woods. There they figure out they are sisters. So, now that they are each curious about their other parent, they decide turnabout is fair play and go back home to the parent they have never seen with each masquerading as the other.The thing that upends their plans is that dad is getting ready to remarry. Now every synopsis I have seen describes bride-to-be Vicki as a golddigger, but let's face it. It's not like Gerry Hall is marrying Rupert Murdock here. Dad is not that rich and not that old. He could live a long time and he could go broke. It was just a plot device to get the girls to reveal their switcheroo and thus get mom to fly to California and get the parents talking again, and to have an excuse for the girls not to like their stepmother to be, whose only problem seems to be that she is just not the outdoors type to be living on a ranch. And let's face it, the girls wouldn't like their new stepmom if she was Mary Poppins because she would be busting up their dreams of a reunified family.So how does this end? I'll let you watch and find out. I will say in the film's defense that it has a great two-tiered script with slapstick and adolescent humor for the kids and plenty of whimsy for the adults. The sentiment is genuine and not saccharine and the veterans in the cast give it plenty of gravitas, and kudos to Hayley Mills for making me forget that I wasn't looking at two different little girls. Just don't THINK too hard, because it ruins everything.

Two identical looking girls (both played by Hayley Mills) meet at a summer camp and they discover that they are twins. Their parents are divorced and they had decided to take custody of one girl each. They guess that since neither of their parents has remarried, they must still harbor feelings for each other. They each go to the other parent and plot to bring their parents together again. It is a simple story. The first half of the movie in very enjoyable. The scenes where the girls see their other parent for the first time are touching. But, the movie looses touch after the parents meet; it becomes noisy and meandering. There is an unnecessary plot-line of the father's (Brian Keith) engagement to a generic, gold-digging, young woman and the girls trying to get rid of her. Maureen O'Hara, as the mother, easily steals the show with her wit, grace and beauty. There are many good, well-acted supporting characters like the girls maternal grandparents, the sharp nanny and the flirty Reverend. The girls' personalities are well-written. The father gets the tomboy and the mother gets the more feminine daughter. But, Hayley Mills rather fails to bring the differences to life. She gives the same performance for both the characters but somewhat makes it up with her liveliness. It has good nostalgic value but does not really stand up if you are watching for the first time in 2010's.

After watching the 1998 remake with Lindsay Lohan, I had to check out the 60's version which I thought was unbelievably filmed well! Firstly, before I start ranting on how great the film was, I will say that I don't think that this film doesn't match the remake. Usually I find remade films worse or less superior than the originals but for some reason I just found some more fun in the remake. The original however I think is still excellent and should still be viewed.The plot centers on two twins who discover each other at a girls camp. They find out who each other's parents are and then they decide to con-cock a mischievous plan into swapping places and getting to know each other's parents before meeting again, trying to reunite their parents.The acting, scenery and settings, music score, unique moments and memorable scenes were put together very well and the entire film still holds up to today's standards.My first thoughts were that the film wasn't going to be great at all and that it wasn't going to beat the remake. I was wrong about it being a well made masterpiece, but I was right about it not beating the remake in my opinion.I thought everything was a little different and more absurd whilst I still found more moments (especially the woods scenes). However, I did find the music a little bit too typical (very 50's-60's styled themed music, it sounded like anything else).Overall, I do love this film. I don't have anything negative to say about it, but there's just something about the remake which I found more special, but then again if we didn't have this film, we wouldn't have the remake!!! Anyway, I really believe the film is one of the best 1960's films, ranking right up with 60's horror such as Black Sabbath and Rosemary's Baby. 8.5/10