1.   Her pacing is better than the original, but her biggest success is the performance she gets out of Lindsay Lohan, who plays the twins.

2.   Ms. Lohan, a freckle-faced redhead, plays both twins, as Hayley Mills did in the original.

3.   Swooning teenagers might rent it to see a double dose of Leonardo DiCaprio, playing royal twins and wearing the worst fake whiskers Hollywood has to offer.

4.   The Fitzgerald boys, who were cast as the lead characters, play gifted twins separated at birth.

5.   The look-alike Polish siblings play conjoined twins whose delicately balanced interdependence yields a rare brand of tension.

6.   Young actress Lindsay Lohan plays both twins, with a little help from state-of-the-art special effects.