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Sorry Folks, Its a Grade A+ Stinker


And I'm speaking as somebody who is a big fan of the first couple of LB movies.

I have to confess, I could only watch it for about 20 minutes - it's THAT bad. Normally I'm pretty tolerant of almost any movie, and will sit it out in the hope that it redeems itself. But this.....

Just colouring everything pink and mentioning shopping a lot does not make something funny. Reese Witherspoon was sweet and endearing, but these 2 girls are just bloody annoying.

It just seemed like a very bad TV comedy show doing a parody of LB.

Maybe the plot picked up a bit later on, but..well, proceed with caution.

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Well, so far I agree. It starts out with them under umbrellas, in the rain. Except the sun is shining. And they complain how the sun never shines in the UK.

Uhhh? Kinda sloppy. Not sure I'm gonna make the 20 minute line.
OK, now they each got Paris Hilton little dogs...

7 mins 54 seconds. OK, I can sit through pretty much anything. Bzzzzzt. Not this.


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its not a great movie but its not horrible

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You already watched it? I thought the movie will not be released until the 28th?

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There are "ways and means" of viewing movies before their official release date (thank goodness).

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I can't believe Savage Steve Holland directed this.
What happened to that man? he was fantastic in the 80's, "Better Off Dead", & "One crazy Summer" are great teen comedies. This is just a shame.

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Well, I got the DVD and saw it and I must say that though I don't think it's bad, it's not good either. The twins do a great job for their first movie role, but the directing, and the storyline don't help them. For one thing, there isn't enough character development, and the story seems to move along way too fast. There's also quite a bit of overacting from some of the supporting cast (i.e. "Tiffany" OMG!!!) and the movie, though watchable, is not in par with its predecessors. The story should have been more developed and should have moved slower. The resolution seems to come to quickly and too easily. Also, it would have been great if more time was spent having the twins alter the stiff school with their ideas and personalities. Their characters were way underdeveloped and the twins' acting abilities weren't showcased to their full potential. And there are a lot of goofs. For example, it's raining in England and they complain that the sun never shines, when it's clearly shining even trhough the rain! Also, Izzy loses her bracelet when she and Chris go into the teacher's office to get her notebook. Then, they are conveniently framed for cheating, and the bracelet is used as evidence against her. Yet how could anyone have known that ahead of time to plan to frame her since the bracelet was only found when the teacher went into his office to look for evidence? The one scene where Izzy explains and clarifies how she lost her bracelet has been cut and can be seen during the end credits as an outtake. This movie could have been way better if more attention had been put into the quality, the story, and the characters than in the budget. Just because a movie has a low budget it doesn't mean they have to make it bad. When the budget doesn't cut it for certain scenes or effects, that's when a good story with a good plot can save the movie. So in my opinion, even with the low budget, the movie could have turned out a lot better with more care to the story, the plot, and the characters.

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I sat it out until the end and I must say it was kind of cute, you have to get used to the somewhat annoying voices of the two sisters but once you've gotten used to that it isn't that bad, really. It is even funny when they speak the same words at the same time and don't they look lovely? I would like to have them as daughters even though I have two lovely daughters of my own.

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I like teen movies eventhough i'm certainly not a teenager anymore, i even think nancy drew, material girls, etc are watchable,
but I found this one stinks and stop watching after 10 minutes.

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Oh. Em. Gee.

Kill me now. Just do it. Off me. Right now.

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Yeah,right!!

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I'm wondering if this couldn't be classified as torture by the Obama Administration

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Excuse me???

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I sat through a grand total of 6 minutes and 27 seconds of this movie. The opening scene already had me bored, and I didn't care for their acting either. I'm usually pretty tolerant of movies and will hold out until the end, but this I couldn't even bear lasting unil the 10 minute mark. What's the target audience for this movie anyway? My 8 year old sister, who is a big fan of these sorts of movies, watched about 25 minutes of it and then couldn't take any more.

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at first, i thought it was an awful movie. for the first 30 minutes, i kept thinking 'when is this going to be over?' but towards the end, it got sooo much better. it became actually enjoyable. if you want to see how good the movie is, you should watch all of it not just part of it.

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extremely exaggerated accents, bad storyline
does not even compare to the the first
or the second, even though that was pretty bad..

also kinda reminded me of wild child?

all in all, theres a reason why this was direct to dvd...

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my thing is.. why do they have to keep making bad sequels and tv shows for every movie that has been made.. i mean come on.. talk about beating a dead horse.. can we please get an original idea out here instead of the same recycled, been done a million times crap.. do people these days have such a short attention span that they really buy into all this crap.. i mean really???

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I was watching it on tv and made it til the first commercial. Why did the ruin the the first Legally Blonde with these sequels? The first was good, the second was tolerable, and this one is completely horrible. Someone needs to shoot those British airheads, or take pity on us all and make the movie only in subtitles with no sound.

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