Getting There (2002)

As Good As It Gets

Blistering performances.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

WARNING - MAJOR SPOILERS. I suggest only reading this review if you've already seen this movie! --- Keep in mind while reading this review that it is coming from the mouth of an Olsen Twins fan. This movie is pure garbage. It is the worst Olsen movie, hands down. Probably also the worst movie ever. The acting is worse than usual, the costuming is appalling, the plot is just lame, etc. This movie gets even worse when the twins and their friends finally arrive in Utah, if that's even possible. The camera zooms in on them skiing downhill in bouncy, low-quality black and white footage for no reason whatsoever. The other actors have no talent and are pointless. My biggest complaint is the plot -- even after the children continue to make mistake after mistake and practically visit every state by accident, the parents still let them continue traveling. If my children did such things, I would think they were not ready for such things and take away these privileges.Final word: Avoid this movie at all costs. It is the worst of the worst. Rent *any* of their other movies, please. I beg you. I only gave it one point because I was not able to give zero points.

The 1965 Ford Mustang convertible used in the movie "Getting There" is up for auction on Ebay! Item # 4547195530 on ebay motors! This Auction ends Sunday Evening! There is verification and documents of authenticity that show that this is the ACTUAL car that was used in the movie. It was won by sweepstake's contestants in Washington State and I've been keeping an eye on the auction this week. The bids are steadily climbing!!!!!! This is pretty exciting! When you go to ebay and click on ebay motors then put the word "movie" into the search engine there are actually 4 movie cars up for bid right now. One from Starsky and Hutch and 1 from a Van Diesel movie and 1 From gone in 60 seconds. Mary-Kate and Ashleys car has the most number of bids on it!! Way to go Mary-Kate and Ashley

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen have been acting since they were nine months old. And you'd think that after over a decade, they might improved over the years, as most actors do. However, they are notorious for their atrocious acting skills, and awful movies. And as Olsen movies go, this one is by far the worst.Getting There is about a girl named Taylor (Ashley Olsen) who wants to go to the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. She could have gone alone, but no, she brings along her twin sister Kylie (Mary-Kate Olsen, after all, since when have the Olsens' done a movie without the other?), and a bunch of friends.Along the way they get into a load of "hilerious" mix ups as every attempt they make to get there fails. So it's basically a movie about these teens trying to find a way of "getting there".The movie is directed by Steve Purcell who, judging by this movie and his other works, must be the worst director in the world. Second to Ed Wood, though at least Ed Wood was actually entertaining.The camera shots are awful, the lighting is terrible, the acting is atrocious, and the plot is wafer thin. The dialogue is supposed to be funny but the ultra-crap catchphrases are cringe worthy. One word that gets really annoying? "Hype" They all say it like it's a really cool word, you watch in and think "OMG, these kids are SAD!" Ashley Olsen, as always, can be caught acting the entire time and must be the worlds most unnatural actress. Mary-Kate Olsen does her trademark complete overact, with an expression for every word and hands going everywhere. Billy Aaron Brown, as one of their friends, is just annoying, and the other cast are also just pretty irritating to watch.The one good thing about this movie? Actress Alexandra Picatto who plays Charley Simms, a girl the twins and their friends meet on their journey. Picatto is the one actress who actually deserves to be doing something better. She's natural in front of the camera, has screen presence, and can act. However, she may only have seemed good in contrast to the rest of the cast.You'll lose the will to live watching this movie. The best advice I can give you is to save yourself and steer clear!

Oh good grief, this movie plays like a tutorial on how not to make a film. First of all, it stars the disturbingly simian Olsen twins--both of them, of course, since their being twins is the only reason they've still got jobs--as 16 year old girls whose parents let them drive off to Utah with a few friends. Very realistic. The movie itself is filled with little song montages that resemble a low-budget MTV video--the shots become black-and-white, grainy, tinted, or weirdly angled at random. I can see the film editors sitting in front of a computer screen and saying, "Let's have a look at the old effects menu...we want to make sure we get every possible one in there." I don't know--it's not like this movie is supposed to be good, right?