In this zany action-comedy, they play sisters, Jane and Roxanne Ryan from Long Island, who travel to Manhattan, where brainy Jane (Ashley) is to deliver a speech at Columbia University to qualify for a prestige scholarship at Oxford in England. Meanwhile, rebellious Roxy (Mary-Kate) wants to sneak backstage at an underground music video shoot to slip her demo tape to the band.

Writers Emily Fox, Adam Cooper and Bill Collage and director Dennie Gordon have them pursued by a truant officer (Eugene Levy) along with a DVD-pirate (Andy Richter), who wants a microchip the twins don't even know they have. They attract a Senator's son (Jared Padalecki) and a bicycle messenger (Riley Smith), along with cameos from Jack Osbourne and Bab Saget.

Totally lacking either the charm or wit of "30 Going on 30" and "Mean Girls," the zany, episodic madcap mayhem is obviously a vanity production by their company, Dualstar. On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, "New York Minute" is a frantic 4. As Ashley whines while slogging with Mary-Kate through a sewer: "There is no bright side!"