Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

The biggest hurdle with this story is buying the conceit that these two adults would've made the decision to separate these twins in the first place. Otherwise, it's just delightful. Almost beat-for-beat identical to the likable 90s remake, only better because the humor doesn't project as much; it lets the audience work a bit more. Effectively funny and fairly moving, it's classic family entertainment with a great anchoring performance by Mills at the center.

Live Disney at its quality peak and loaded with delicious scenes that one can watch over and over and still enjoy. Maureen O'Hara was into her forties here and puts her youthful competition in the shade in the sexy department.The one sad thing about this film is that thousands of divorced kids became fixated on the plot, on the idea of reuniting their parents. Luci Arnaz and Desi Jr. watched this a dozen times, dreaming of bringing Lucy and Desi back together (they had been recently divorced). Lucy finally blew up. "NO MORE PARENT TRAP. We are NOT getting back together and its not your fault and nothing you can do would help."

There isn't much here that is new. We have a woman (who isn't a bad woman) invading the space of a couple of teenagers who are out to keep her away from their father. Hailey Mills plays both the girls (twins) with their tight curly blonde hair. They can barely carry a tune but they sing anyway, and that song has become part of the eternal movie culture. What happens is a series of tricks pulled on the unsuspecting woman (who really has no sense of humor so makes a good foil) to show that she and the dad have nothing in common. Some of what they do is downright cruel and mean spirited. I guess we enjoy it because we want the father to be happy too. Just a bit of fluff from the Disney studios.

Love the pranks the twins played on each other, Hayley Mills gave a lovely musical performance towards the end, and it's also amusing to see her throwing a tantrum. So much for the "trap", the "parent" part though, is pretty horrible. Their dad seems to be the worst dad on earth, probably the worst man too. How can any man not fall in love with MAUREEN O HARA the first time he sees her(after 13 years)?? She has to actually get out of her way to trick them to break their engagement?? And for a man who abandoned her and separated her from her child years ago (I assumed), let her kid be slapped by a stranger and did nothing about it, not to mention he's barely handsome and has no personality what so ever at all. That's just ridiculous. She should have been still mad at him, and he had too crawl on his knees to win her back. Actually she and the kids deserve better.