Seven months after the third movie, everyone goes to
Hawaii. Susan Wyatt and Sharon Grand (Hayley Mills), the Wyatt triplets – Lisa,
Jesse, and Megan (Leanna, Monica, and Joy Creel), and their dad Jeffrey (Barry
Bostwick). Jeffrey has inherited a resort just in time for his honeymoon with
Susan. Sharon plans on taking care of the triplets, but since this is a
two-parter, there has to be some drama.
“Parent Trap: Hawaiian Honeymoon,” released on TV in
1989, is a bore, despite a change of location even though it becomes a little
superfluous in the end. R96sk said in his review, “There aren't really any
'Parent Trap-y' elements until the third act, with a lot of this dedicated to
potential romances for two of the three sisters.”
Mollie Miller is back from the third film to direct
and this was written by John McNamara, who created the series Aquarius and The Magicians.
R96sk said, “All the cast remain which I always
appreciate; same roles but different actors always bother me. Hayley Mills
(Susan/Sharon), Barry Bostwick (Jeffrey) and the Creel sisters are all solid
enough. None of the new characters, e.g. Jayne Meadows' Charlotte, add all that
much though.”
BandSAboutMovies said in their review, “This movie has
my favorite thing ever happen: both Susan and Sharon have exactly one photo of
themselves together from their childhood and, of course, it's the publicity
photo of them in the tent from the first film.” No one was there with a camera.
It would be impossible to have this picture. Here the picture is taken, a
memory of their past which is our past which we remember directly than them.
At least they saw it was best to end everything here
until they decided to remake the 1961 film nine years after this came out.
Overall, this one just wasn’t worth it either. When I
saw this on DVD after seeing the third film, I couldn’t believe what they had
done. Why make sequels to the film when it ended off just fine? I wasn’t a fan
of the original anyway, so what was the point? No one asked for it. Just do
yourself a favor and never see the sequels. They just got progressively worse.
How is the 1998 remake you ask? I’ll talk about that
tomorrow in the continuation of “Disney Month 2023.”
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