To think the Parent Trap parents are the worst parents ever?

[GlummyMcGlummerson]

Disclaimer: lighthearted, I know it's a film.

Watching (the Lindsay Lohan) Parent Trap with DD, how utterly SHIT are both the mum and dad:

• they take one twin each when they're 1yo and vow never to see the other because the adults don't like each other
• they never acknowledge this or apologise for it
• they keep it a secret from their daughters that the girls have a twin, and seem to see now fault or feel no guilt about thia
• the dad gets engaged when his daughter is away for the summer, to someone she's never met, and "surprises" her with the news.
• when the mum finds out her estranged daughter has been with her in secret, she's more bothered about the prospect of meeting her ex again
• the dad lets his 11yo drink wine
• they get prickly when either child asks about their estranged mother/father
• when the girls almost kill the dad's fiancée by pushing her inflatable bed into the middle of a lake while she sleeps, he just goes "meh"

I also want to know -

• how a woman who only owns a wedding dress shop can afford to have a huge house in what looks like Holland Park, complete with butler
• why someone would send their child to the US from London for summer childcare
• how a 26 year old owns her own wildly successful PR company in California
• what kind of name is Chessie? (The "maid" in California)?

Even 8yo DD is pointing out how awful they all are 😂

You have too much time on your hands!

YANBU! I've always thought they were so self obsessed with no care to the children at all!

I actually love this film 🤣

YABU this film is one of my favourites and Dennis Quaid is HOT in it. You're overthinking everything about it, the key is not to think

I prefer the original, with Hayley Mills.

I know a Chessie (Francesca).

In the original they paint her feet with honey so she wakes up to bear cubs licking her feet...

So, it's twins is it? Is this thread even real? 🤔

PS, I love this film 🙈

@DrFoxtrot

YABU this film is one of my favourites and Dennis Quaid is HOT in it. You're overthinking everything about it, the key is not to think

TBF DQ it's the film's only saving grace, he's blardy gorgeous 🤤

Let's get together...

They managed to cut the hair very neat and some off Annie's outfits seemed a bit to much

Loved the original though!

But agree the choices didnt make sense. Know plot and all but even so!

Let's face it, the parents only get away with it because they're rich and white. If it was Dwayne and Chardonnay from Staines separating their twins like this, I'm pretty sure no one could make a Disney film about it.

Love this film, but didn't realise until now that she was called Chessie and not Jessie

@m0jit0 I'm a little hard of hearing so have to have subtitles which is the only way I knew it wasn't Jessie until now

I want to know how come the summer holidays seems to last ages. That camp seems to go on for at least 6 weeks

@sueelleker

I prefer the original, with Hayley Mills.

Did you notice the original ‘fiancée’ was the mum of the fiancée in the new one, love them both and OP she is a sought after designer not just a wedding shop owner

Ha yanbu!

I got very angry with a (sssh) channel 5 movie recently. It was about a psych MIL-to- be but in the film the wife had died a year before and the dad was engaged to someone new (????) Once the main character moved in, despite running her own busy art gallery (of course) he expected her to be in change of all childcare arrangements, get the child ready for school and arrange her work about the kids hobbies. When she inevitably ran late/lost track he lost his shit with her and when he decided she was sorry enough about it he told her she must try harder if wants to be part of the family!!! And of course gaslighted her when she told him how the mil was trying to sabotage the relationship. Proper angry I was 😅

@jambeforeclottedcream yes I think they do last that long! Out of curiosity I googled it once and it's about $10,000 per child in some places IIRC maybe USA holiday childcare provision is really shit? Mind you the Americans do like to overdo things - I thought badminton club 3 days a week for a month in the local sports centre was a bit much

$10k thats crazy money

In that case the mum can defo afford a house in Holland Park + the price of the flights etc

I don't care it's a brilliant film! 😂
Won't hear anything bad about it!

And I thought it was Jessie too!

I don't think they're the worst parents ever though.
Horrid Henry's are definitely worse, and plenty of other kids lit parents are at best negligent.

I liked the original "Lottie and Lisa "book. Wasn't it written by the same person who wrote "Emil and the Detectives"?

It's Martin & Jessie isn't it the help / the best couple in the movie

why someone would send their child to the US from London for summer childcare

Because American summer camps are incredible and run 10 weeks. I’ve worked at them and half the camps are kids who fly over from France and Spain.

I was literally thinking about this the other day, that's so mad!

Imagine saying, "I know I had twins, but I don't like my S/O anymore so I'm going to live in totally separate countries and only stay in contact with one"!

ALSO, throwing a hairdryer at your husband's head isn't quirky or cute.

@TiptopJ

Ha yanbu!

I got very angry with a (sssh) channel 5 movie recently. It was about a psych MIL-to- be but in the film the wife had died a year before and the dad was engaged to someone new (????) Once the main character moved in, despite running her own busy art gallery (of course) he expected her to be in change of all childcare arrangements, get the child ready for school and arrange her work about the kids hobbies. When she inevitably ran late/lost track he lost his shit with her and when he decided she was sorry enough about it he told her she must try harder if wants to be part of the family!!! And of course gaslighted her when she told him how the mil was trying to sabotage the relationship. Proper angry I was 😅

OMG i need to see this film!

It is very Jeremy Kyle when you take the money out of it

I know someone this actually happened to - not twins, and they did know about each other, but he had an English mum and a German dad. They lived in Germany to start with - parents split - English mum took the guy I knew, other brother stayed with dad in Germany!