Identical 9-year-olds from very different backgrounds: orphaned Amanda and wealthy Alyssa meet at summer camp and decide to switch places -- and play matchmaker between Alyssa's dad, Roger, and the kind social worker who cares for Amanda.
It's so featherbrained and lightweight, it almost elevates its inconsequence into a style.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
A rote variation on Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper that is marginally salvaged by those spunky Olsen twins from ABC's Full House.
– Mike Clark,
USA Today,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
Writer Deborah Dean Davis and director Andy Tennant are fully aware of the absolute predictability of their material and therefore make the getting to an inevitable ending as much fun as possible.
– Kevin Thomas,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Feb 2001
rotten:
Under the direction of Andy Tennant, the Olsen sisters lay on the icky-poo cuteness with several trowels, often delivering their lines as though they were reciting the alphabet.
– Stephen Holden,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
fresh:
The film's underlying sentiment is conveyed effectively, if obviously.