[It] was, properly speaking, not a "movie" at all, but a brief, fevered glimpse into a previously unsuspected entertainment limbo that haunts our own world like some nightmarish alternate universe. . . .Liz Penn, reviewing New York Minute in "Girl Movies '04: The Good, the Bad and the Sparkly" (The High Sign).[The Olsen] twins are indeed monsters, Frankensteinian creatures conjured up by the ruthless logic of our entertainment machine. They had to exist, because it was [im]possible for them to. Chained since the age of one to the drudgery of churning out TV series and straight-to-video movies for children (almost 40 of them in their 17 grim years on earth), these youthful media moguls have the burned-out gaze and hangdog servility of an interchangeable pair of organ-grinder monkeys.
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