*CAN'T STOP LAUGHING* The Parent Trap (1998) Reaction/ commentary: FIRST TIME WATCHING 

RIP, Natasha Richardson, the mom from this movie sadly passed away in 2009 following a skiing accident. She was 45.

Fun fact the actor playing Meredith’s mother, Joanna Barnes , played the unwelcome fiancé, Vicky, in the original Parent Trap with Hayley Mills and Maureen O’Hara in 1961. I love both versions

It's incredible how Lindsay Lohan was able to to play both twins. Each scene featuring them both was filmed twice, with her playing either Hallie or Annie opposite a stand-in actress. The scenes were then edited together to make the combined scene appear seamless to viewers. It's remarkable film making.

I guess I’m an old softy. I tear up whenever Annie or Hallie sees her mother or father for the first time. I also lose it when Chessy makes her discovery as well.

My brain can’t comprehend there are people who haven’t seen this movie LMAO I’ve watched it at least once a year since I was like 5 😂 such a great movie and a timeless classic

Great example of how not all remakes suck. They really just took the core concept and overall plot points and updated it for the 90s.

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen had a similar movie earlier in the 90s called "It Takes Two" that was more based on the Prince and the Pauper concept. It was a lot of fun, one of my favorite movies as a kid.

Good timing with this video since it was recently revealed that the actress who played Chessie and the actress who played Meredith (who are long term friends after this movie) actually go way way back in their respective family history, having lived not too far away from one another.

When my niece was a toddler (she is now in her 20s) we watched this movie at least twice a day.

Natasha Richardson played Elizabeth and was part of a significant British acting dynasty. Her mother was Oscar-winning actress Vanessa Redgrave, and her sister was Joely Richardson. Not to mention, her father, grandfather, grandmother, and stepfather were also in show business. She was also very happily married to Liam Neeson, whom she met doing a play on Broadway with him. She died tragically young in a skiing accident. Liam has never fully gotten over her death (he has never remarried). The same year this film came out, she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance as Sally Bowles in a landmark revival of Cabaret opposite Alan Cumming as The Emcee (who won Best Actor). As for good Dennis Quaid movies: The Right Stuff (as Gemini astronaut Gordon Cooper), Enemy Mine, Postcards From the Edge (which was based on Carrie Fisher's roman a clef novel of her own life), Come See the Paradise, Wyatt Earp (as Doc Holliday), Dragonheart, Something To Talk About, The Rookie, The Special Relationship (as President Bill Clinton), and Midway (as Adm. Bull Halsey). There are more, but...just some that I really liked!

I'm so glad you caught Janice lol I was waiting!

I do love this movie. If you're interested, I highly recommend the original Parent Trap with Haley Mills. It's almost a shot-for-shot, and even decades older, it retains that humor and sweetness. I grew up on it. AND the woman who plays the snooty fiance is called Vicky instead of Meredith. The actor actually made an appearance in this movie as Meredith's mother..."You may call me Aunt Vicky!" 😂❤

Lindsay Lohan was in some good remakes, such a talented young lady. Check out Freaky Friday with Jamie Lee Curtis they had such great chemistry together, but please check out the original Parent Trap 1961 and Freaky Friday 1976 with a young Jodie Foster too. I enjoy all your reactions Nick, and your collaborations too, keep up the great work 😊

If you would be interested in watching the original with Hailey Mills I'd love that! ❤️

Fun fact: the lady who played Jesse is on the tv show Abbott Elementary. Also, the lady who played Meredith is to this day really good friends with Lisa Walter aka Jesse.

I remember being super impressed by Lindsey’s acting when I first saw this movie. ❤

@14:32 my personal fave Dennis Quaid movie is 'Yours, Mine & Ours' it was one of my fave movies growing up & it has a special place in my heart

The way you mistook them for two separate people is hilarious. First time I watched I thought they were twins also.🤣💀

I have a twin sister, and we have the same birthday of October 11th (the same birthday the twins share in the movie)! We always call each other the parent trap twins!🤣

Also Chessie and Meredith are BFFs in real life!!! They hang out all the time and call each other sisters. So cool. They post on their IGs

The moment you see Natasha, her smile and running down the stairs as it goes to slow motion… will always bring tears to my eyes… she felt like your mom growing up. Knowing that she’s not physically here anymore, that scene will forever hit super hard 🥺 13:08

Yep, that's Janice!!! 🤣😂💜💜 "Freaky Friday" should be next!!

I’ve literally been watching this movie for 20 years but only started seriously watching friends about 8 years ago and never realized that actress was Janice!! That’s so crazy to me and so funny because I’ve been watching your friends reactions for a while now and I know how much you love the character 😂😂

It's actually a pretty good movie. They both are. I had a massive crush on the little girl in the original film (Hayley Mills) with I was a child.

LOVE this movie, its a must watch for me every summer. Disney needs to go back to making this kind of live action films.

Funny you said that they should remake this movie. This is a remake of 1961's, "The Parent Trap." I grew up with the original Parent Trap. On the rare occasions that it was on television, it was a family event in my household. Brian Keith played dad. Maureen O'Hara played the mother. (Man she was stunning in this film. What a beautiful woman.) And Haley Mills played the twins. Joanna barnes, who played Vicky Robinson in the original film, (dad's new girlfriend), also plays Vicky Blake, (mother of dad's new girlfriend), in this film. As a fan of the original film, I was delighted to hear Hallie singing "Let's Get Together" in this version of the movie. That was a piece of a song sung by "the twins" in the original film. The story line is about the same. Though, of course, it was updated a bit for modern audiences. But the original version is also a delight to watch and for fans of the '98 version, I highly suggest giving it a go. It is just as fun.

Another movie you should check out is Innerspace. Starring Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, and Martin Short. It's been a favorite of my family for decades! ^_^

Anyone reading this should hunt down the 1961 version of The Parent Trap with Hayley Mills playing the lead roles. It’s so perfect. I love this version too but the original we used to hire from the video shop every school holidays. An absolute classic.

Now to react to the Original Parent trap staring Hayley Mills (the 1961 film) and It Takes Two (1995) which is an Olsen twins rip off of the Parent Trap except that the identical little girls aren't actually sisters. I remember when I was a kid I thought that the Parent Trap was a rip off of It Takes Two.

This was always one of my favourite Disney movies growing up but I literally did not realise that was Janice until this year. 😂Vicky, Meredith's mom, was the other woman in the original 1960s version of the Parent Trap.

I hope you do Freaky Friday too

interesting bit of trivia about the the parent trap...this was probably one of Lindsay Lohan's biggest success films and it was because they had two of her. i mean it was made LONG before any of the bad rumours began about Lindsay. many stories involving twins are usually so succesful. well when parents gets divorced usually one parent gets custody...especially with twins...i mean separating twins nowadays would be considered detrimental to their development, twins learn a lot from their other half in early years. i think that's why this film is considered to interesting.

25:20 - Aunt Vickie was the original prospective stepmother in the original movie. She cameoed as Meridith's mother in this one.

You should check out the Father of the Bride movies with Steve Martin. Nancy Myers wrote those too, same vibes.

25:03-25:08 I laughed because this was a remake of a 1961 film by the same name.

Lindsay Lohan was so good at playing twins that when I watched this for the first time I couldn't believe she didn't have a twin in real life. It's one of the movies I've watched the most, and my favourite movie growing up.

You've been posting some throw back bangers lately 💜 When this movie came out I thought they were actually twins lol

Ohhhh the crush I had on Dennis Quaid growing up (and still, let’s be honest) because of this movie 😩😩😍

I loved this movie growing up! Also with your thought of how it would be similar to The Prince and the Pauper initially, there is a movie from 1995 called It Takes Two starring the Olsen Twins its similar to The Parent Trap but they aren't siblings in the movie

This movie is just such a great one! First of all the editing on making Lindsay Lohan look like twins is just some of the best editing I've ever seen! I honestly sometimes forget that she plays both characters. It is also so funny and wholesome and chaotic! I won't lie, as iconic as Mean Girls is, I think this movie was Lindsay's best performance!

My favourite Dennis Quaide movies are this one, dragonheart and enemy mine. They are all super nostalgic as they are movies i watched as a kid. They remind me of my dad as he was the one who introduced me to them.

Be sure to watch the original 1960's version starring Haley Mills as the twins, Family Affair's Brian Keith as the Dad, and Miracle On 34th Street's gorgeous Maureen O'Hara as the Mom. Also by Disney, and also amazing! 👍😁😍

This movie is a remake, which I usually dislike, but I did grow up with this version. One of the few movies I saw with both my mother and grandmother as a kid. Good memories!

The only boy at the camp was played by Lindsay Lohan’s real life brother.

The original is better in showing why the Parents didn’t get along together, until at the end when they revealed they missed each other and both were too stubborn to reach out to the other. More importantly, Susan (Hallie’s original) lashes out at Mom for the ordeal the kids were put through.

I don't think it was an arrangement "for the kids". It was "well, we happen to have two of them, so you get one and I get one" as if they were dogs they adopted together.

One of Dennis Quaid’s best films (and one of my ALL-TIME favorites) is “Frequency”. I’d LOVE to see your reaction to that!!

Don't know if you have any plans to delve into the Olsen Twin empire, but they have a movie called It Takes Two that is a fun twist on this premise.

This is actually a remake of a film by the same name from 1961. Joanna Barnes who plays Meredith's mother in this one was in the 1961 film (essentially playing Meredith's role). I always wondered how the parents came to the decision to separate the girls, especially because they weren't horrible people. (though that is kind of horrible). It's still one of my favourite childhood movies. Besides this and Mean Girls, some of Lindsay Lohan's best roles are in Freaky Friday, Herbie Fully Loaded, Life-Size, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen and Just My Luck. I recommend watching Freaky Friday especially. And speaking of Matilda: Before Lohan was cast, Mara Wilson auditioned was considered for the role. Dennis Quaid has been in, among others: The Day After Tomorrow, In Good Company, Cold Creek Manor, Soul Surfer, A Dog's Purpose (and its sequel A Dog's Journey) and I Can Only Imagine. Coincidentally, there is a 39 year age gap between Quaid and his current wife. Elaine Hendrix, who plays Meredith, tweeted him "better watch out for those twins!" Natasha Richardson, the daughter of Vanessa Redgrave and sister to Joely Richardson (who was in the live action 101 Dalmatians), who plays Elizabeth, tragically died in a skiing accident in 2009 at the age of 45. She was married to Liam Neeson at the time of her death. Fun fact: Two years after the release of this movie, Lisa Ann Walter, who plays Chessy, gave birth to twin boys on October 11th (same date as in the movie). Elaine Hendrix (Meredith) and Lisa Ann Walter (Chessy) have been very close friends since filming. Just recently they learned that their great-grandparents lived just blocks apart in NYC in the early 1900s and may have known each other. The black dress Martin suggests that Elizabeth wears to impress Nick is a nod to the dress Princess Diana wore after her divorce form Charles, referred to as the "revenge" dress. Finally, you forgot your story at 17:30!

I always ask the same question every time I watch this movie. How did the grandfather get to the phonebooth in the park so fast ? lol #hesarunnerhesatrackstar

The reason the premise is so freaking wild by today's standards is because the original story (which later became a Disney movie in the 60s) was written in the early 20th century when married couples separating was much less common and if they had kids and didn't stay in touch, this kind of arrangement could actually happen.

The little boy at the camp is actually Lindsay Lohans little brother Michael.

25:07 It’s so funny you say “this should be remade” because this film actually is a remake! The original came out in 1961 but the Lindsay Lohan version quickly become the dominate one.

I grew up on the 1961 version starring Hailey Mills, Brian Keith and Maureen O'Hara since ot came out the year I was born. Vicky, the girlfriend's mother, played the girlfriend in the original. Her name was even Vicky in both movies but with different last names. As for Dennis Quaid, I love him in *Innerspace* with Martin Short & Meg Ryan and in *Undercover Blues* with Kathleen Turner. He's also excellent in *Frequency* with Jim Cavaziel.

I loved all the comparisons and references u made in this lol

Now you gotta watch it takes two, Mary Kate and ashley play identical strangers not twins. And where parent trap had Janice from friends, it takes two has Carol from friends.

You're not 'Thor' anymore? The hair is still luxurious, aaannnd finally subbed.

25:43 "Did you fly next to Bert Kreischer?" Oh no, she would have died before landing. (Note: RIP Natasha Richardson, this comment was not meant to make light of her actual death.)

Oreos and PB are good together but if you really want to elevate it, take an Oreo apart and put a mini Reese's cup inside.

The original movie is awesome as well (1961) starring Haley Mills, Brian Keith and Maureen O'Hara

Ok I just watched the hug between Halley and her mother omg chills.

I grew up watching the original german version (1950 and 1994) and didn't even know there was a remake with Lindsey Lohan until a few years ago. I like it a lot, but i prefer the original 😁

I love how Chessie and the Grandfather are able to figure out something is wrong due to the girls not knowing to try and suppress their subconscious habits

I love how Annie sounds nothing like real British people

If you haven't seen it already, I'd recommend you watch Freaky Friday! I grew up with the one that had Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis as the main characters!

The only bad parenting in this movie. I watched this as a kid and thought it was just funny. But now as an adult and rewatching it. I am seeing a lot of red flags. Like what they never called the other kid or sent a birthday card or wished them a merry Christmas. There is something seriously wrong with these two parents. And what's up with everyone keeping it secret or quiet all this time, Grandpa knew, Martain knew and so did Jessie. I mean everyone knew about these girls. Yet they were never told about them. I mean what kind of parent doesn't check in with the other kid. I mean how sad is that. I don't care what kind of situation they were in as a couple; you don't turn your back on your other kid for 11 years and 9 months later until she shows back up pertaining to be her twin just because you didn't find the time to send cards or phone calls or even say hey, I love you. for all they knew they felt unwanted by the other parent all these years. I can't be the only one who thinks this way or feels like this.

Love this movie i can quote it!! Also started having oreos with peanut butter cuz of this film!! And fun fact: that boy who thought it was a boys camp is Lindsey's younger brother!! 😂❤

I’m so glad you recognized Janice! I was holding my breath waiting to see if you did!

I love this movie, watched it all the way back when it was on vhs. I love the camping trip, it’s too funny

When it comes to Dennis Quaid movies, I think you would REALLY like Frequency (2000). An actual underrated gem of a movie.

Based on a book by Erich Kästner, btw. "Das doppelte Lottchen."

I remember Enemy Mine, Innerspace and Frequency being really good movies Dennis Quaid was in. There are so many others, but those popped out at me lol

Believe it or not, peanut butter and oreos do taste great together. It's basically like a reese's peanut butter cup except it has cream filling with it. I tried it because of this movie. 😆

Fun Fact the unwanted fiancé is played by the same lady who played Alexa Carrington in of the seasons of the Reboot of Dynasty

This movie is already a remake. The original was in the 60s and starred Hayley Mills as the twins. Doesn’t really fit with your 90s/2000s series but maybe you want to react to the original as well. Another LL movie you might try out is Freaky Friday (also a remake of an earlier movie) with Jamie Lee Curtis playing the mom.

The lady playing the girl friend is in another movie called Mr. Nick.

Wine... I tell people who hate wine they just haven't had an expensive enough bottle yet. Expensive wine is exquisite. My faves are Jarvis, Caymus, and Opus 1 (CA wines)... between $200 and $500 a bottle depending on vintage. Before 2008, I was able to drink these and other wonderful wines, but now if I get one bottle every 5 years, I am in heaven for the evening. I do not drink wine, otherwise. You asked!

Of the Dennis Quaid movies I’ve seen on of my favorites is Frequency

Undercover Blues (1993) is my favorite Dennis Quaid movie, but he was great in Frequency (2000) and The Day After Tomorrow (2004).

Most expensive wine I've ever bought... was about $29.95 lol

I love this movie,it's adorable 🧡🧡 and funny 🤣 and Nat Richardson is so beautiful and sweet...if they made the movie years ago she would have been *perfect* as Lady Diana!💛 29:53 - 29:58 You're definitely not!😍The only thing she lacks are the crystal blue eyes...💛💙 05:34 - 05:43 And snob. This is why I hate it.😑💢 #SorryNotSorry 14:32 - 14:33 This one and"DragonHeart"!💘 25:03 - 25:10 Well..this is _already_ a remake and Vicky,Meredith's mother,was the Villain of the original movie! P.S. Chessy is the MVP.😎💕

I saw this in the theater. I grew up with the original Haley Mills but LOVED Dennis Quaid (I LOVED Frequency!) so saw this for that wonderful ample of his! R.I.P. Natasha Richardson. Lindsay is great as the twins! Please react to "French Kiss" with Meg Ryan and Kevin Kline. It's a hilarious rom-com! I couldn't wait to see your face when you saw Janice in this. Too bad she didn't have a larger role.

Been loving your reactions but if you want to see a person playing two different roles with complete opposite personalities Leonardo DiCaprio in Man in the iron mask is perfect

I really like this movie, but I will always love the original. The Parent Trap (1961) and The Moon Spinners (1964) are why I fell in love with Hayley Mills and classic Disney movies ❤

the mom in the movie passed away in real life, sad how too. i grew up watching this as a kid, i'm 31 now and idc what anyone says, i love my old movies, she also played in freaky friday with jamie lee curtis who played in halloween

Fun Fact: The boy who said "I thought this was a boys camp" is Lindsay Lohan's brother.

Seen this movie a number of times. If you want to watch Dennis Quaid in something, try "Enemy Mine" from 1985, which is one of my all-time favorites, and a really underrated, relatively obscure, unknown sci-fi movie in my opinion. Also try "Undercover Blues (1993)" and "Innerspace (1987)" he's in too.

You forgot to tell the story at the end!

I don't understand why so many people think Oreos and peanut butter is weird. Wtf is a Reese's? It's chocolate and peanut butter and a totally standard candy. Why would Oreos and peanut butter be any different? You get a better chocolate flavor off the Oreos, and you can ration the peanut butter to your personal tastes.

I knew you were going to be happy to see Maggie Wheeler aka Janice in this movie 😊

I love the princess Diana look

You should see Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis in Freaky Friday. Also, see Dennis Quaid in Undercover Blues and Frequency.

the older “marva” (senior camp director) is played by Polly Holliday (Flo from the TV show Alice “Kiss My Grits !!!” )

Now you need to see the original!!!

This movie was pretty good, but having been a big fan of the original film(1961-With Hayley Mills, Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith) it was hard for me to enjoy it as much...loved your reaction

Characters most likely to know: Mum's side: grandfather: when you're older you tend to notice these things. Butler: honestly it's hard to say Mother: normally i would say a mother can tell her children apart...but she seems very focused on her work. dad's side: father: he could be joking or he suspect something is up. the dog: this is the huge problem...a dog will ALWAYS know the difference. nanny: if she has been around a long time and knows the child well...i think she will know.

I once tasted wine for $1,026... I found out about it after a while, they didn't even tell me right away.

This movie is based on a movie with the same name from the 50s, and it is based on a book named "Lottie and Lisa" (in English) written by Erich Kestner in German... Go figure... 😀 The original book is the best, of course, but the 50s movie is not bad at all, too.

I think the roles of Annie/Hallie were first considered to be given to Scarlett Johanson, but she's slightly older than they wanted so they cast Lindsay instead.

In case anyone else wanted a translation of the french: But you're kidding, I hope. Meredith is not the girl for you. But it's not possible, I'm dreaming. What...