The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley: The Case of the Logical i Ranch (1994) (V)

User Rating:

2.9/10   

Director:

Michael Kruzan

Writers:

Charlotte Dreiman (videoplay) (creator)
Michael Kruzan (videoplay) (story) (creator)

Genre:

Short

Tagline:

Will solve any crime by dinner time

Plot:

The pint-sized twins this time are headed to Deald Gulch, USA to explore the mystery of the missing cattle at the Logical I Ranch! It's up to our detective posse to solve this ten-gallon case before high noon.

Cast

Mary-Kate Olsen	...	Herself
Ashley Olsen	...	Herself
John Derler	...	Cowboy #1
John Mackey	...	Cowboy #2
R.C. Bates	...	Dusty
Aviva Wachs	...	Marion Winklestammer
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Coati Mundi	...	Singing Cowboy

Runtime:

30 min

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

Kananaskis Village, Kananaskis Country, Alberta, Canada

Company:

Dualstar Productions

Quotes:

Ashley: Maybe it's a footprint of the abonible
[sic]
Ashley: snowman.
Marion Winklestammer: Not likely.
Mary-Kate: The Loch-Ness monster?
Marion Winklestammer: Not a chance.
Ashley: Uncle Lou?
Mary-Kate: He's got feet the size of a Buick.
Marion Winklestammer: Perhaps your uncle Lou possesses quite large feet. However, what we've got here is a fossil of a dinosaur.
Mary-Kate & Olsen,Ashley: A dinosaur?
[...]

Absolutely Adorable

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.