*The Parent Trap* doesn’t make sense but is still a CLASSIC! 

Can't believe they left 2 eleven year old girls in a cabin in the woods with a needle and matches 😂

Natasha Richardson should've played Princess Diana in something.

I really thought they're was actual twins and not just Lindsey 😭

My parents divorced but are now remarried to each other. It actually has worked out well for them. My mother left because of my father’s alcoholism. They were separated for a year then divorced for a few more years. However, my dad never dated anyone else, stopped drinking, tried really hard to win my mom back, and it worked. They’ve been married for the second time for over 20 years now and are empty nesting pretty happily from what I can tell. One anniversary of my mom leaving, my dad even sort of re-proposed asking her “will you stay married to me this time?”

"WE GREW UP WATCHING MOVIES" 😂😂😂 starting off strong!

Also, my grandparents divorced remarried divorced, and then remarried until death they parted. On their 50th wedding anniversary, my grandma gave a speech saying, "We've been married 50 years with some vacations."

Man that is so messed up, the dad didn't mention "oh hey Meredith, I actually have two kids".

Fun fact: here in Spain they translated the title of this movie for some reason to "Yo a Londres y tu a California" which translates to "Me to London and you to California" which literally spoils the movie 😂😂

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1152">19:12</a> Did anyone else notice that Lindsey Lohan does an “English girl trying to do American” accent?? Like she does an american accent except with english inflections and with Annie’s mannerisms. This is a VERY GOOD child performance!!!

Fun fact: Elaine Hendrix (Meredith) and Lisa Ann Walter (Chessy) are friends IRL. Lisa took Elaine to an award show as her date one year. And one time, they reenacted the "you rang" scene to celebrate the film's anniversary.

feeling something new inside about tie-dye girl is a widely shared experience

When I turned 26 all I could think was "I'm as old as Meredith Blake" so I know what you mean Rizzo!

The parents are legitimately horrible people. It's one thing not to tell your kid they're adopted. It's another thing entirely to hide a whole parent (with whom you share no animocity) and a sibling from your kid. It's such a messed up arrangement in the first place. They had to make Meredith cartoonishly evil. Otherwise, the parents would've been the villains. I literally thought about all of this when I, too, watched this for the first time on VHS with a friend while I was in middle school.

I didn’t realize the counselor with the dark hair was Janice from Friends. It took me years to put that together. When I started watching friends regularly, I was like, oh my god

they really could have ended the shenanigans at that hotel if they'd just called in the dog. who knew from the jump and was never wrong.

this is one of my ultimate comfort movies. Also I know Meredith is wicked but she just so fabulous. “Being young and beautiful is not a crime, you know” I live

“I have class and you don’t”

lindsay lohan played dual roles in this movie when she was only 11, she deserved an oscar for this 👑 i watched this movie religiously as a kid and it’s still a classic!

I never realized Bonnie was in the Parent Trap. Thank you, Benji

My sister pierced her own ears after seeing this film. She was 10, and she just shoved the posts straight through. Our mom was pissed. lol

When Chessie says "almost as if you were..." and Annie's like "Almost as if I were _who_" and I'm just like, who said it was a 'who'? What if it was like "almost as if you were losing your memory", "almost as if you were starting to go through puberty", "almost as if you were abducted by aliens and probed and replaced with a changeling child" or something? I always felt like that conversation jumped a little bit.

Also when I realized (recently) that Chessy's name was Chessy and not Jessie I was like "My whole life has been a lieeeee!" hahahah

It took someone pointing it out, but now I can’t unsee Natasha Richardson basically looking like Princess Diana as Liz. Just never crossed my mind before!

As a kid I think I shipped the dad with Chessy. They were already raising that kid together, they bantered, they seemed a much better match than the dad and mom who got such a bizarre divorce and didn't speak for 11 years. This, amongst many other films of the 90s, featured divorced parents getting back together and everything being good. As a kid of divorced parents I knew that was a fantasy but it was still a very odd thing for me to see constantly in movies. I'm glad kids today get to see more options in movies and tv.

“Hey let’s put two Teen girls who obviously hate each other Alone in a cabin in the woods far from us” “That sounds Great”

Fun Fact: Natasha Richardson's sons watch this movie when they miss their mother because apperently her character in this film is exactly how she was in real life

We screamed “BABY BONNIE BENNET!” At the same time 😂😂

Baby Bonnie Bennet is what I needed today

Those kids learned new accents fast.

The story is actually an adaption of the hugely successful German childrens novel 'Das doppelte Lottchen' by Erich Kästner from 1949. There was a famous film adaption in 1950 in Germany as well. Its like canon over here haha. It had a very unusual family setting with divorced parents and a single mom and one of the twin girls with more 'boyish' character traits so it caused quite a stirr on its release. I read it when I was a child and I always found the parents decision to split up the twins unbelievable - but I guess these where different times in the 1940s and it might have been not so crazy back then after WW2, who knows! I just read that Kästner wrote the story as a movie script during the Nazi regime but was not allowed to work as a writer any longer so publishing was delayed til 1949 and he made a child novel out of it (a total novelty as well because it took its child protagonists seriously). So all in all: a classic!

You guys gave the mum a hard time about being perceptive, but she does find out first, and the dad is pretty shocked! 😂 Meredith is such a cartoon evil stepmother, but they really could have drowned her with that "prank". "So they're dead" 🤣🤣🤣

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1360">22:40</a> YES Rizzo!!! Jesse hands down is the best acting in this movie for me. LOVE her

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I enjoy your first-time reactions to things, but your rewatches are so much more fun because you're so familiar with it and it's like rewatching favorite movies with your friends! Also, there are definitely a lot of things that you only notice when you rewatch the movies you watched as kids as an adult, and I only noticed several things about this one while watching this reaction, and I feel again like I either need to rewatch everything I ever watched as a child, or never watch it again.

Ooh, so excited for this one! You simply must cover 'Freaky Friday' (2003), at some point, too. Ta. P.S. Love the channel. Your reactions never fail to put a smile on my face. 🧡

Both of you SUCCESSFULLY ATTEMPTING the secret clap on YOUR FIRST TIME WATCH? Fabulous 🔥

I was so surprised rewatching this the first time as an adult to realize that Janice from Friends worked at the camp... I was like "Oh my God!"

The number of times I’ve watched that is insane 😂 I hope you guys cover the original Cheaper by the Dozen too someday

We need an "It Takes Two" movie reaction

Jesse and Martin getting together is the ultimate wlw and mlm solidarity ✊🏼

Yes, the lost boy at camp is Lindsey’s little brother.

RIP Natasha Richardson you were truly a gifted comedienne. She’s absolutely amazing in ‘Wild Child’.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1359">22:39</a> “That was so powerful…Academy Award.”

This will always be one of my favorite movies. I was devastated when Natasha Richardson passed. 💕

What sort of parents would separate their twin children and never tell them about each other's existence? They never cared to meet their other child. I don't even know what my reaction would be if I were one of the girls. My relationship with them would probably never repair, and I would never trust them again.

your guys friendship is so pure i love it

lmaooooo so true about other reactors. There is one girl who started her channel saying she was a horror fan since she was young, but then magically it was her first time watching every single horror movie.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1405">23:25</a> every time that chessi scene happens i cry.

"why did you do this to your kids" hits lol

the amount of times i rewind to 1)watch Rizzo break out laughing at Benjis comments 2)watch Benji realize Rizzo's started crying :D

I've seen the tie dye girl stitch someone's video on tiktok with them also saying the same thing haha

My favorite movie of all time!! It’s funny you mentioned bears because I completely forgot that they lured bear cubs into Meredith’s tent in the original movie until I rewatched as an adult and was like… she actually could have DIED. I hope you guys react to The Holiday at some point because Nancy Meyers really knows how to do a California/England life swap. And great timing that this was released the same day as Lindsay Lohan’s new movie on Netflix because I am ready for Lohanaissance!!

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2460">41:00</a> the concord was the first supersonic passenger airplane that traveled 800mph faster than a 737 so London to New York would be about 3 hours instead of 8 :)

As a mother of twin girls this movie is so infuriating!! I get so pissed watching it! The parents are ridiculous! I cant imagine ever spilting my girls up. No matter how annoyed i was with their dad I would never sepereate them! Also i had my twins at 26 so meredith saying she is 26 makes me laugh. Aint no way that women is 26! 😂 Anyways rant over 😂 it brings the nostalgia of childhood but also infuriates me as an adult 😂😂

To answer your piercing question... yes I did pierce both of my own ears cause of this movie using the same technique. 🤣😭

Whnn I became older than Meredith was a day where life felt weird 🙃

the dvd version of this film i had didn’t have the explicit ear piercing scene and i found out it’s cause they made a second version without it cause too many kids were trying to pierce their own ears and they had to censor it 😭😭

OMG, THEY ARE SOOO SMALL!!!! It's so funny rewatching your childhood shows and movies and seeing how small the actors truly were. Shoot at that age they looked normal and eveyone else was either a baby or supper old😆

Another idea for figuring out which is which for the black mail scene. Just have Samny tell them. He barks at Annie lol Your intro had me laughing so hard, I had to pause and let it out 😂 Yeah this is one of the Disney Remakes where they got it right. The others I love are Freaky Friday, and 101 Dalmations.

When I got the notification for this video I literally gasped because I’ve been waiting for this day for so long. You guys always make parent trap references in your videos and I had always wondered when you would make a parent trap reaction. So glad you guys decided to make one!

This is based on a book that is even stranger. It takes place in Europe and the one twin almost dies of an illness, on her deathbed, she begs for the parents to get back together. I kind of wish they would make the original version.

the part when meredith is riding in that tiny car , and that man said how evil she is reminds me of the scene in casper like the lady carrigan and dibbs for some reason and i could still qoute this movie lol

This movie really made me believe that I could have a secret lost twin somewhere in the world that I could meet at any time P.D Congrats on 100k guys!!!! This is only the start,the Popstars will continue to grow❤️

The little pipsqueak who threatened to fight Hallie is the director's daughter.

Man, this reminded me that Dennis Quaid was my first ✨awakening✨😂 character was trash but he’s beautiful lmao . Love that Lisa Ann Walter is back on screen and just as great in Abbott elementary!

They also couldn't pull this switch if they were fraternal twins, unless they happened to resemble each other a lot facially. I mean, they more or less accidentally have this switch in _Twelfth Night,_ but you just have to roll with that.

Can I say the British twin consistently got the short end of the stick? Yeah her putting the beds on the roof was wild but she was the one who was left with no clothes, got her cabin destroyed, had to get her EARS PIERCED by an 11 year old (while she agreed the switch wasn’t even her idea) and got ignored when she asked for help dealing with Meredith. And while the mom had an emotional moment with her other daughter, Dennis quaid was just like “cool” we he realized he had had his other twin this whole time. Thank God for the nanny tbh

My parents got divorced when I was 4, got back together when I was 10 and broke up when I was 12. The second time hurt way more than the first (to me) but now they're both in nice relationships :)

I can't wait til you guys reach 100k subscribers! You guys deserve it so much;)

Apparently the camp counselors were trained the same place as the ones who were supposed to watch Jason at Camp Crystal Lake.

I Love this movie so so much! This was the first one I’ve seen. I didn’t even know this was a remake till a couple of years ago. Also apparently Lindsey was sneezed a lot during filming with the horses bc she’s allergic to them. I didn’t believe my mum when she told me that she isn’t an actual twin because I was like “then how are there two of them in the movie? There can only been two of them if there’s twins.” Only when I was 14 or 13 I realized/learned that my mum was actually telling the truth. Everyone in this did amazing and everyone who made this possible behind the scenes. Y’all are hilarious. Love the videos! You two do an amazing job!

Fingers crossed this is the video that finally gets you guys over 100k. Nostalgia, don't fail us now!

Natasha Richardson. What a loss.

I laugh so hard whenever someone mentions tie dye girl, bc she was a lot of our awakenings seriously😂😂 but also bc she made a tiktok recently about it too😂😂😂

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2555">42:35</a> "At least im not beefing with a 12 year old!" As I slow head turn towards my sister, currently 12 years old, who is watching the premiere with me 👀

Obviously it’s a Disney movie so I know that it’s contrived and cheesy on purpose and that it’s not real, but there are some things that have irked me for years. I’m ngl, the parents are the real villains of the film. How did the court approve of the parents each taking custody of one twin, and then never telling them about each other?! They let those children grow up without knowledge of each other and without ever knowing the other parent. Lowkey, the parents should’ve probably gotten charged w criminal negligence for how those girls were switching places in different countries without anyone knowing. That’s super dangerous! I think Meredith gets all the smoke they should’ve given to the parents. I’m a Meredith apologist bc she honestly was put in the middle of a crappy situation. Yeah she was a typical cartoonish younger-girlboss-wicked-almost-stepmother, but she actually seemed to love the dad (yes a lot for his money but she seemed to love him just as a person as well. There’s plenty more rich men she could’ve easily gotten with but she really did like the dad). Mind you, the dad withheld SUPER important information from her and then expects her to just roll with it? Then she tries to get along with the children, children she wasn’t told truthfully about, and they’re rude as hell to her. She didn’t sign up for that sh!t. I’d be mad too! Obviously beefing w preteens is WILD, but it’s not like she didn’t try to get along with the daughter she knew about. It’s not the children’s fault, they’re just being kids and are going through an intense situation with no support or tools for how to work through it, BUT I don’t like how they didn’t respect the fact that there’s a reason their parents weren’t together, and destroyed any other relationship the parents were in just to get them back together. Again, they’re children so it’s not a surprise. What is surprising is that their scheming actually worked and didn’t completely blow up in their faces. But again, Disney!

As someone who’s parents reconciled after 2 decades, it lasted about two months 😂

Now do It Takes Two starring the Olsen twins

I never realised Kat Graham was in that movie omg

An iconic movie covered by iconic RU-vidrs/reactors! Love you guys-hope we get a full reaction for Patreon! 🥰

can't wait for this one; absolutely love this movie and it's gonna be great watching you guys do a commentary on it. the thought of this is definitely gonna help this day at work go by so much faster! thank you

You guys should watch Lisa Frankenstein!! I think you would love it. The same person who wrote Jennifer’s Body wrote it.

Hallie & Annie should've been pissed!! Who agreed to this custody arrangement?! They decided the best course of action was split these twins up, never tell them about their sister nor their other parent, make the whole family complicit in the lies & never see or acknowledge their other child ever again?!! WTF!! How are they not mad at Nick & Lizzie for lying to them their whole lives?! They never even apologize to their kids! Both parents were rich, paying for plane tickets & visits shouldn't have been a problem for a vineyard owner & world class designer! Also what did they tell the girls about their other parent? Did they give them that raggedy picture & tell them they were dead?! Just horrible all the way around! As a twin myself, I really feel some type of way about this. 😂

The Parent Trap and It Takes Two were watched on repeat as a kid

You should react to the original 1961 Parent Trap!

Fun fact: the actress who plays Chessy plays Miss Schementi (I think that’s how you spell it) on Abbott Elementary ❤️ I kept figuring out were I recognized her for the longest!

1. i love how benji went full bible to try and solve the "which one's which" problem 2. there's an often memed pilots' speed running community lmao

CONGRATULATIONS ON 100K🎉🫶🏾🫂‼️✨

I love that you did this movie! Such a classic. It's less known, but I have a feeling you'd enjoy My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Another family classic, emphasis on the family 😅

I'm glad I grew up with this film, can't wait to see what y'all react to next ^^

The most unrealistic thing in this movie is how were the parents allowed to just take one child each? Like, custody?

She uses words like “lovely” and “fright” and the adults are like “when did you get so educated???” Okay so you didn’t teach her basic words??

You guys should check out a Little Princess

Fun fact Meredith’s mom Vicky played “Meredith” “Vicky” in the original Parent Trap in 1961

Benji saying all the words is legit me when I watch my favorite comfort movies (and this is one of them!) hahah I love it! Would you ever watch Clueless, Cinderella Story or She's the Man on the channel? Just putting it out into the universe haha

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="805">13:25</a> my mom was already grown and married by the time this movie came out, but when i first saw it when i was younger, she told me her and her friend pierced her ears like this, apple and all, when she was like 13 and made me promise to not pierce my ears like that just because i saw it in the movie 😭 her piercings never closed or anything, she still has em

I grew up watching the original Parent Trap with Hayley Mills, and when my sibs and I rewatched it a couple of years ago, we were flabbergasted. First of all, the Californian sister’s bedroom suite is breath-taking, but the main floor of their giant house just seems to be made of an endless sequence of interconnected indoor and outdoor seating areas? Like, fifty different mod living room sets in different groupings. And the kitchen’s in a weird place and for some reason the main dinner plates are kept in the highest, least accessible cupboard… But the most arresting thing about it is how much more awful the parents’ dynamic is than I remembered. Basically, the dad is willing to put zero emotional effort into absolutely any relationship at all, so while the parents’ plan with the daughters is still nonsense, it makes all the sense in the world that the mom would have wanted to be done with him. But VERY early in the movie, the beautiful classy mom is made to feel insecure about the idea of him moving on, so the girls’ plot actually has nothing to do in practice with rekindling the mom’s feelings for the dad. There was even a scene we had never seen before (it must have been cut from the version we watched as kids) where the nice old granddad suggests to his daughter that she’s not getting any younger and is losing her looks, so maybe she should take literally any man she can get - including her awful ex-husband! What the hell Granddad! The mom and one daughter actually land in New York to buy whole new wardrobes “on their way” to resolve the emergency and switch the girls back, because the mom is afraid she won’t be beautiful enough to recapture her ex-husband’s attention. So yeah… I thought the movie would probably have some outdated gender politics but would ultimately be about the twins bringing their parents together and reminding them about warm feelings they had forgotten about. Whereas the entire conflict is actually about whether anything or anyone can convince the dad to grudgingly care about literally anyone but himself. Ew.

i've always loved that they started the movie with Nat King Cole and ended with Natalie Cole, his daughter. Started with their parents ended with them.

When I was either 7 or 8 I thought that they were actual twins. THEN I REALIZED AT 9 THEY WERE BOTH LINDSAY 👹👹

My parents are this in reverse 😅 together for 13 ish years (majorly toxic relationship because of my dad) broke up, we moved from england to ireland with mam. They got back together less than a year later (9/10 years ago now) and he moved here and they got married. Surprise surprise, still toxic. Also hes very toxic towards me for the last few years so 🙃 love that for me

You guys should react to the original one with Hayley Mills!!