The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley: The Case of the Logical i Ranch

The 2nd in a series of adventure videos starring the Trenchcoat Twins made me wish I was a little kid again. As hard as I tried not to, there were a few times when I caught myself thinking `That's so juvenile.' But, I mean, of course it was juvenile. After all, Mary-Kate and Ashley were 8 when this came out. I imagined myself being 8 years old and watching this video on Saturday morning over a plate of pancakes, and I realized how perfect it was. It was 30 minutes of pure fun. There were several times when I actually laughed. The singing, while not worthy of a Grammy, was more than enough to keep children entertained. And that's the goal of all this. To everyone who complains that these movies are terrible because they have no plot or the acting isn't straight from Juliard or whatever, you've completely missed the point. These movies weren't made for you. They were made for 2 reasons. 1, they are to entertain young children. 2, they are something that Mary-Kate and Ashley enjoyed doing. And they succeeded at both tremendously.

I absolutely hated the Olsen twins on Full House, but for some reason these mystery videos are much more tolerable. I think it's because, where Full House was set in reality, these were set in an alternate reality where these dumb, clueless adults call in two 9 year old girls. The acting in this one, I remember, was worse and more over acted than in any of the other videos. This one deals with the girls trying to figure out the case of a monster making it snow. It's really stupid, good for toddlers, but most importantly, any one else will enjoy how corny and stupid and bad the acting is (purposely bad acting).

My rating: *** out of ****.

This was one of the first Mary-Kate and Ashley shorts I saw, and I kind of liked it. Of course, I was about six or seven, so my taste wasn't that great. This movie shows how cute the twins are and how they can so not sing. Their acting is okay, keeping in mind that they were only eight years old. If you are not a Mary-Kate and Ashley fan or under the age of ten, definitely don't see this. This is not one of the best movies that they made. But of course, an Olsen twins fan should see it to see how twins acted around the end of Full House.