'New York Minute' (Warner Bros.)
Cotton-candy comedy about twin sisters (Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen) with polar opposite personalities -- one studious, the other a slacker -- who are sidelined on their way to an important scholarship competition and rock concert, respectively, and wind up being pursued around Manhattan by a bungling gangster (Andy Richter) and an overzealous truant officer (Eugene Levy).The frothy but forgettable fluff, directed by Dennie Gordon, keeps its screwball silliness sanitary while promoting a family-value message, that, compared to harder-edged teen fare, most parents would take in a New York minute. Some slight sibling issues and mild sensuality. The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG -- parental guidance suggested.

-- CNS