The Parent Trap (1961) and The Parent Trap II (1986): 2-Movie Collection (2-Disc Set)
by David Swift, Ronald F. Maxwell
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Actor: Bridgette Andersen, Carrie Kei Heim, Hayley Mills, Maureen O'Hara, Tom SkerrittDirector: David Swift, Ronald F. Maxwell
Brand: MILLS,HAYLEY
Writer: David Swift
Producer: Ed Horwitz
Producer: George Golitzen
Producer: Joan Barnett
Writer: Erich K?stner
Writer: Stu Krieger
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 210 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-09-27
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Walt Disney Home Entertainment
DVD Reviews of The Parent Trap (1961) and The Parent Trap II (1986): 2-Movie Collection (2-Disc Set)
DVD Review: The Parent Trap
Summary: 5 Stars
I grew up watching Hayley Mills, and wanted to share the movie with my
grandchildren.
DVD Review: Does not do justice to its literary origin nor does it have the charm of the 1998 Parent Trap
Summary: 2 Stars
This movie is based upon Erich K?stner's Das doppelte Lottchen. Whereas there the father is a composer and conductor, and the mother a financially struggling picture editor at a magazine, in this movie the father is a well-to-do farmer, and the mother a scion of the Boston aristocracy. Not just wholesome American, but very upperclass America. So the influences of the parents in the original (the genial, but somewhat child-neglectful atmosphere in the father's Vienna apartment, and the mother's financial struggle that has turned her daughter into a little edition of a careful adult) are missing. So there isn't any depth in the movie. In the 1998 parent trap, the constellation is a little bit more interesting because of the juxtaposition of British rich and Californian-American rich with the children being somewhat typical of their background.
Moreover, Hayley Mills simply lacks charme, and Maureen O'Hara and Brian Keith have so little chemistry that it is simply not conceivable that they both should still love each other. Again, Dennis Quaid and Natasha Richardson do much better in that department.
So, on the whole it is interesting as the first American adaption, but the 1998 one is the enjoyable American adaption. (This review only concerns the first movie on the dvd.)
DVD Review: Fun movie
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this for my 9 year old sister's b-day and she has literally watched it 20 times in the past couple of weeks! I loved it as a little girl and still love it today!DVD Review: Great for the kids!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I am now and old fart compared to my 2 year niece Hannah, but we still share many wonderful experiences. During the day time and evening, when I am lucky to have her around, we go to the park or feed the Swans and Ducks. Night time however is movie time. In this day and age there is not a lot of material out that is suitable for a young princess like Hannah, so I went back to things I enjoyed watching when I was young.
This classic Walt Disney Movie, "The Parent Trap" is funny, well done, and has brought countless hours of joy to myself and my niece, Hannah. If you want a good, wholesome, Walt Disney Classic for your whole family to enjoy, this is a movie for you and your family.
DVD Review: "Let's get together - yeah, yeah, yeah..."
Summary: 5 Stars
Of the six films Hayley Mills made for Disney, this one hands down is regarded as the most memorable and most fondly cherished. This isn't to dis those other five films, because I've seen them all and even the least of them is quite watchable stuff. But PARENT TRAP, which came out in 1961, is the one which resonates most, and thru the years the one I've seen most often. Definitely my favorite Hayley Mills picture.
The premise concerns two lookalike girls who meet at summer camp, shockingly discover that they're long lost twin sisters, and decide to switch places so that one girl could meet the other's parent. Then comes the scheme to piece back together their broken home and make their divorced parents fall in love with each other all over again, with the fly in the ointment being that their father has suddenly become engaged, and to a golddigger. This being Disney, the kids pull off their goofy plan, but not before a lot of laughs, a few songs, and the golddigger getting hers but good.
Young Hayley Mills, with her cute button nose and her infinite sunniness, is so good here that you tend to overlook some things. Such as that the parents would actually keep the children in the dark about their twinhood, or that Hayley's American accent really isn't. But those are quibbles easily beaten down by Hayley Mills being at her adorable best. Not only does she demonstrate her acting chops and her ease in front of the camera, but remember that she does this while taking on two roles - as Sharon, the prim and proper Bostonian girl, and Susan, the boisterous tomboy from a ranch in Monterey, California. As some bloke in the bonus features mention, the whole enchilada hinges on that one riveting scene in camp in which Sharon and Susan first learn that they're sisters. That moment packs an emotional wallop and gets you invested in the rest of the story, and that it works is squarely on Hayley Mills's ability to convey emotional believability. The still lovely Maureen O'Hara and rugged Brian Keith are here as the twins' divorced parents, who, faced with the kids' cheery gumption, don't at all stand a chance.
PARENT TRAP has garnered such good will that it's inspired three made-for-TV sequels (PARENT TRAP II, PARENT TRAP III, and PARENT TRAP: HAWAIIAN HONEYMOON) and a terrific 1998 remake starring Lindsay Lohan (The Parent Trap (Special Edition)). The agreeable PARENT TRAP II is also on this dvd, this story taking place 25 years later, in 1986, as a grown up Hayley Mills reprises her roles of Sharon and Susan, both of whom now have kids of their own. But while Susan is happily married, Sharon is divorced and planning to uproot herself and her kid Nikki for a fresh start in New York. Nikki, who doesn't want to move, attempts to play matchmaker for her mom, setting her up with her best friend's sportswriting single dad, Bill Grand (Tom Skerritt). But when Sharon proves reluctant in romance, the kids call on Sharon's twin sister Susan in California and convince her to pose as Sharon and go out with Bill, so that he can go ahead and start falling in love with Sharon already.
Things really get good when Sharon gets clued in to this conspiracy, and decides to concoct her own get-back. It's all good-natured mischief, capped off by the very funny sequence with Bill and a very distracted Susan (as Sharon) dining in a restaurant.
Even though THE PARENT TRAP II is told mostly from the kids' viewpoints (and the kids do a wonderful job), this movie is really about Hayley Mills. It's just so nice to see her again, and to catch up with the twins and see how they've gotten on. Grown up Hayley still has that endearing mojo she had when she was a kid. You still can't help but like her.
So both THE PARENT TRAP (widescreen) and THE PARENT TRAP II (full screen) are on the first disc. Disney does it up right in Disc 2, with all the cool bonus stuff on THE PARENT TRAP (but zilch bonus stuff on the sequel): "THE PARENT TRAP: Caught in the Act" - the 19-minute-long Making Of featurette; "Lost Treasures: Who's the Twin" - a segment on Susan Henning-Schutte, Hayley's body double featured in all those over-the-shoulder shots; a segment on the songwriters, the Sherman Brothers; "Let's Get Together" music video, which is just scenes from the film crammed together as the song plays over; "1961 Disney Studio Album" - quick glimpses of Disney films released in 1961, as well as Disneyland's then new rides and featured attractions.
The "Production Archives" selection offers the following: a fabulous must-see featurette on Hayley Mills; "Seeing Double" - the special effects featurette detailing how the f/x team pulled off Hayley Mill's double performance, thanks mostly thru the skillful blend of split screens, quick editing and over-the-shoulder shots (in which body double Susan Henning-Schutte was used extensively); "Title Makers" - featuring Tommy Sands and Annette Funicello as they sing the PARENT TRAP title song and talk about their then current project BABES IN TOYLAND; Kimball & Swift: The Disney Years" - Director David Swift interviews Disney animator Ward Kimball; PARENT TRAP trailers & TV spots; a gallery section of production photos, stills and art, cast biographies, advertising (movie posters, lobby cards, a PARENT TRAP comics), and even excerpts from a scene in the screenplay (the one where Sharon and Susan find out they're twins), with a "Film Reel" option to see how the actual scene plays out in the movie; and 5 audio archives (a radio spot, 2 songs "For Now, For Always" & "The Parent Trap" and two scenes giving you 4 options which break down the various elements that make up the sound: the dialogue, the music, the effects, or to hear them all put together, the final composite).
Uncle Walt supposedly was never too much impressed with actors. But he was very fond of Hayley Mills, whose personality I have to believe isn't too far removed from the charming characters she played on film. Other than the PARENT TRAP sequels, I haven't seen Hayley in her adult roles. But, going by the more recent interviews I've seen of her, she doesn't seem to have lost any of that appeal or sparkle which made her such a pleasure to watch onscreen. It's nice to be able to compare your idea of the person with the real thing, and to have the real thing come off favorably. That is very cool.
Description of The Parent Trap (1961) and The Parent Trap II (1986): 2-Movie Collection (2-Disc Set)
Hayley Mills, Special Academy Award(R) winner for 1960's POLLLYANNA, lights up the screen in Disney's fondly remembered release of THE PARENT TRAP. Mills stars as Susan and Sharon, identical twins separated at birth. Neither twin knows the other exists until a simple twist of fate finds them at the same summer camp. Then, realizing who they are, they plan a little twist of their own. They switch places with high hopes of getting their parents back together. This delightful and heartwarming comedy will have your whole family doubling up with laughter. First time on DVD! In the full-length sequel THE PARENT TRAP II, Hayley Mills returns to reprise her roles as identical twins Sharon and Susan. Now all grown up, Sharon is a single mom whose 11-year-old daughter Nikki is just as mischievous as she was! During summer school Nikki and her new friend Mary turn into scheming matchmakers when they try to get Sharon and Mary's widowed father together. Not quite able to make it happen, they turn to the one person who can really help -- Sharon's twin Susan!General DVDs
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