Search - Switching Goals on DVD

MPAA Rating: G Movie Release: 1999 DVD Release: 06/11/2002 Format: DVD - Closed Captioned Audio Tracks: English, French, Spanish Subtitles: English, French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 24 mins Studio: Warner Home Video Total Copies: 1 Genres: Children's/Family, Sports Comedy, Family-Oriented Comedy

Twin sisters discover trading places isn't quite as simple as they imagined in this comedy for the whole family. Emma Stanton (Ashley Olsen) and Samantha Stanton (Mary-Kate Olsen) are a pair of 12-year-old identical twins who look alike, but otherwise have little in common. Samantha -- or Sam, as most everyone calls her -- loves sports and isn't much on frilly stuff, while Emma is a junior fashion maven who doesn't have any use for her sister's tomboy interests. Their father (Eric Lutes) thinks he doesn't have a close enough relationship with Emma, so he decides to draft her onto the winning girls' soccer team he's coaching; their mother (Kathryn Greenwood) signs Sam up for a second-string team coached by someone who acts as if he could hardly be bothered to watch the game. Neither Sam nor Emma is happy with this situation, so they decide to swap places on the teams; at first, neither Mom or Dad are the wiser, but when the girls' wildly different levels of play become obvious, Emma discovers she has to act like Sam to keep her folks from catching on to their plan, and vice versa. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen play sisters who swap identities in The Olsen Twins: Switching Goals, which comes to DVD with a standard full-frame transfer. English, French, and Spanish soundtracks are rendered in Dolby Digital Stereo. Subtitles are accessible in all three of those languages as well. Supplemental materials include a trailer and career highlights of the cast and crew. This is a decent release from Warner Bros. that is sure to please Olsen fans, but there is little here to interest the average DVD consumer. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide