Friday, December 21, 2012

54. Getting There: Sweet Sixteen

And onto the real talent of the Olsen family.  Mary-Kate and Ashley.

That was sarcasm by the way.

In this adrenaline packed film (bah ha ha), Kylie (Mary-Kate Olsen) and Taylor (Ashley Olsen) just turned sixteen and decide to have a low key birthday party.  By low key they mean a lavish pool party full of beautiful sixteen year old (played by awkward 20 year olds) where they received a brand new convertible (that's pretty much how my 16th birthday was also).  I think Taylor (I can't really tell them apart because they are basically the same person in the movie) is obsessed with going to the winter Olympic games in Salt Lake City.  She buys tickets and plans a road trip with their group of friends to get to the games.  It's the girls in one car and a group of boys in another convertible.  And since Toast (Jeff D'Agostino) being led by his infamous case of munchies (pretty sure he was high the entire movie and I don't blame him) decides to stop for burritos.  When they realize they forgot the hot sauce (blasphemous) they back up over a barrier and have their tires blown.  The girls meet up with them and while they are figuring things out, their car gets stolen.

They decide to go to the airport and try to fly there, but being idiot sixteen year olds, they buy the wrong tickets.  The girls end up in Santa Barbara while the boys end up in San Diego (how does this even happen?).  After a sympathy meal of more burritos they head back home to figure out a new game plan.  They decide to take a bus to Las Vegas where they can get on a flight to Salt Lake City.  Once again the group gets split and half are left in the middle of nowhere when the bus stops for a bathroom break.  Luckily they meat another girl there age who is the princess of oranges.  She befriends the group and convinces her father to let them borrow the jet so they can get to the Olympics.

What a pointless movie.  What I just described was probably only half of the movie.  The rest was pointless, boring montages where they just wanted to show off how cool their lives were.  The acting was bad.  The writing was bad.  The only good about this movie was making fun of it.  But I think my friend's might have gotten sick of my Toast impression.  Although the movie was only about 90 minutes it felt like an eternity.

Rating: *


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