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Summary: The Farrellys at their unfunniest
Review: It's fairly known that the Farrelly brothers's movies usually go for the gross-out jokes, the making fun of either disgusting situations or people's handicaps, or sometimes, both. To me this 'style' is hit or miss. Hits like There's something about Mary or Me, myself & Irene, or misses like...well, pretty much everything else they've done. Including Stuck on you.Most people (including myself) thought Stuck on you would be one of the hits, since it starred Academy Award nominees Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear as conjoined twins, and Academy Award winners Cher and Meryl Streep as well, themselves. However, upon watching the film it was clear that this was one of the misses. And if you take box-office gross as a measuring stick, this was THE MISS for the brothers. The basic premise is indeed funny, that of two conjoined brothers who excel at most everything they do while living in their little town near Martha's Vineyard, until they decide to move to L.A. so one of them can follow his dream of becoming an actor (you're following the crazy idea that only ONE of them is the actor, right?). Unfortunately, the whole thing falls flat in its face, and it's not because of Damon and Kinnear, who give pretty solid performances in what has to be a very difficult acting job (mainly for the logistics of it, not for the 'emotional depth' of the characters). It's just that most of the jokes are not funny, and the majority of those that work where shown in the trailers. In the other Farrelly films there's always one character (at least) that has some sort of handicap or disfiguration, in There's something about Mary it was the mentally challenged brother, in Me, myself & Irene it was Charlie with his two personalities (and the albino guy), in Shallow Hal it was Walt, the friend with spina bifida and the hugely overweight Rosemary. In Stuck on you, the main characters are the ones with the handicap, and the jokes about they're condition stop being funny after a short while. That's not to say the film doesn't have its moments, like the filming of the TV show, or the teddy bear scene, or the first scenes after the separation. It's just that, as a whole, Stuck on you is not a very funny movie. And if they tell you that the Farrellys where going for the emotional side as well, then that's another element of the movie that failed. Good enough for a rental, but not for keeps.
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Summary: Farrellys' best since There's Something About Mary.
Review: Well, it had to happen sooner or later. The Farrelly Brothers had to mature (somewhat) at some point and make a film that didn't rely on sex or gross-out jokes. That is apparently the case with Stuck On You, the Farrellys latest and tamest, but it's also one of their sweetest and funniest films to date. Bob and Walt Tenor (Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear) are conjoined twins who've spent their whole lives in Martha's Vineyard. Bob is the owner of a burger restaurant and Walt is an actor who performs plays for the town's audience, but he has bigger ambitions; he wants to be a Hollywood actor, much to the chagrin of Bob, who suffers from a distinct case of stagefright. But after some discussion and compromise, they agree to move to L.A. and start a new life for themselves. Upon arrival, Bob and Walt meet the friendly but ditzy April (Eva Mendes), one of their neighbors in the apartment they've just moved into. Bob even meets his internet pen-pal May (Wen Yann Shih), but because he's never told her he has a conjoined twin, he has to "bring" along Walt on their first date together. As for Walt's Hollywood dreams, after some initial lack of success, he's chosen by Cher herself to co-star with her on her new show, "Honey and the Beaze," in an attempt by Cher to sabotage her own series. But the show is an unexpected success thanks to Walt's burgeoning popularity, which puts a crimp in his relationship with Bob. Reviewing comedies has always been a bit difficult for me, which is why I usually stick to the stuff that I find easier to write about (action/adventure, horror, drama, anything but comedy), but given all the knocks this film has taken (particularly the fact that barely anybody saw it in theaters) I felt a slight sense of obligation to mention that Stuck On You is the funniest and most touching comedy I've seen in recent memory. This is not to say that the film always had me choking with laughter (though a scene involving a guy in front of his typewriter did get the biggest laugh out of me all year), but rather that it consistently delivered smiles, chuckles, and solid laughs without ever bogging down, no easy feat for a movie that runs for just under two hours. Aside from the lack of sexual humor, there's a major difference between the style of comedy the Farrellys employ here than in some of their prior films. Whereas many their previous works have often made fun of the people that suffer from certain "disorders," Stuck On You presents us with two friendly, easy-going guys who've grown accustomed to their situation and choose not to see their conjoined liver as a handicap. Rather, the film derives its humor from the way "outsiders" view their condition. In the film's two lead roles, Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear boast the kind of comic chemistry that most actors can only dream of. Damon, in particular, excels by taking the more "straight man" role, where he's not actually aiming for any laughs but still gets them anyway, maybe even more than the typically hilarious Kinnear. Watching these two guys stuck together reminds me why I find them two of the most likeable actors in Hollywood, even when most of Kinnear's characters are generally abrasive losers (but not in this case). It is, in fact, Damon and Kinnear that make the film as wonderfully entertaining as it is. Had not even half of the jokes worked as well as they did, their performances would still warrant this movie a passable recommendation. Stuck On You doesn't always juggle its various subplots perfectly; while Wen Yann Shih does play well into the film, a lot of brief cameos and a wide assortment of characters aren't meshed in as well. Worst of all is Cher, who's neither funny nor particularly convincing as the "bitch" she's made out to be. I have no idea if this says more about her personality or her acting skills. Most of the Farrellys comedies generally tend to dissipate in the last half-hour or so, replacing its humor with more sincere attempts at trying to make their irascible and/or "cad-like" protagonists learn a lesson or two. The magic of Stuck On You is that its protagonists are always the same throughout, making no genuine "it's a miracle!" revelations about themselves at the last minute; after all, brotherly love is still brotherly love. When the last twenty minutes threaten to devolve into sentimental clap-trap, the Farrellys punch in the necessary humor that defuses any of the building sap (spoiler:I think my favorite scene in the whole film is when Bob and Walt re-unite after parting their seperate ways, in a scene that's both hilarious and touching), making the film sweet without getting too sweet. The Farrellys have made a lot of funny movies, but this is the first of theirs I can recommend to just about anyone.
**** 1/2 out of *****
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Summary: Funny with alot of heart
Review: Greg & Matt are great together in the new film Stuck On You. This is the Farrley brothers best since " Kingpin." I love the way the brothers use musical montoges to push the film along. I found myself laughing my ass off, but theis film makes you feel good. Farrley brothers are the best comic directors of today, they invented the "gross-out" comedy but they never over do it like other filmmakers.
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Summary: PAINFULLY, EXCRUTIATINGLY UNFUNNY
Review: Maybe it's time for Amazon to include minus-star icons for movies that are so bad they are, well, bad. Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear are conjoined twins in the Farrelly brothers' painfully unfunny STUCK ON YOU. Cher and Meryl Streep have small parts but the only laughs are from the blooper real. Too bad the whole feature film couldn't be about two actors trying not to laugh while playing conjoined twins. This misfire of a movie is kind of like the Siamese twin version of Dumb and Dumber but totally, absolutely, completely devoid of wit. Worse, individually these twins come off as half-wits.
Rating: 
Summary: Good but not a great.
Review: I have gave this film 3 stars not because i dont think it is good but because it simply isn't one to be remembered. It is a funny, well thought out plot and script and would make anybody with the slightest bit of humor in them laugh.
The film follows to very close conjoined twins as they set about achieving their own personal goals and supporting each other on the way. One half of the two decides to make a bid to become an actor but as the other is very shy finds it very hard to go on stage or on set and be with him but as nature intended he is forced to.
Then were off to hollywood as the two persue there dreams of making it big and the other gets a chance to meet his internet girlfriend, but he hasn't told her that he shares a kidney with his brother.
But you guessed it, it doesn't woork out as expected and they are forced into having a risky operation to split them up.
Will they survive, if so will they be better off than before.
Watch this film and i promise it will make you laugh but you wont be talking about it 2 weeks later.
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Summary: Surprisingly Funny & Touching
Review: The Farrelly brothers must be going soft in their middle age. Despite the fact that they've never replicated the near-perfection of "Kingpin" and "There's Something About Mary", they don't seem to mind. Their last two films, "Shallow Hal" and now "Stuck On You", both deal with issues of family, love, and what we consider "wierd" in a person in honest and occasionally touching ways. "Stuck on You", however is much better than "Shallow Hal". The film is about two conjoined twins, Walt(Greg Kinnear) and Bob(Matt Damon), who live in Martha's Vineyard where everyone sees them as normal. They are conjoined at the waist, sharing a liver. They could have been sperated with Walt being perfectly normal, but Walt would only of had a 50/50 chance at living. Bob refused to let his brother take that chance. They run a burger joint in town, and while Bob is the athelete, Walt is an aspiring actor. Bob can't act and suffers from panic attacks. What's great about this setup is that everyone knows Bob and Walt and knows that they're perfectly normal. They're sensitive about being called "freaks" of course, but they are fiercely independent. Walt, however, has a dream of being a real actor, and since they promised each other they would never hold the other back, they head to Hollywood to look for fame. Obviously, things don't come easy for the pair, and the film followd their various failures. They have an agent who last worked in real Hollywood perhaps 30 years ago, hilariously played by Seymoure Cassell. The first job he gets them is on a porn film. Then, after a run-in with Cher, who wants out of a TV deal she has to make, Walt gets a break as her costar in "Honey and the Beaze". Walt really is a good actor, and as usual the brothers charm everyone they meet, and the show is a surprise hit, which infuriates Cher. The film is buoyed by the inherent humanity in all of the characters. Hardly any one of them is portrayed in a put-down way. Eva Mendes plays a silcone filled wannabe actress, and while she's kinda dumb, she's also sweet and never used by the Faralley's in the ovbious way other directors would. Bob is in love with May, an internet sweerheart who doesn't know about his attachment to his brother. She is played with some skill by Wen Yann Shih, and she strikes the perfect balance needed in the twisted world of teh Faralleys. Walt and Bob are also very real. They're human, they love each other, they just happen to share a liver. The acting from Damon and Kinnear here is absurd. The previews for this film seem to imply the two are dumb, which they aren't. They're about as complex a pair that you'd find in a screwball comedy. The Faralley's have come a long way from the out and out grossness of "Dumb & Dumber" which was just a gross-out comedy. After a rocky start in "Shallow Hal", they've successfully transitioned from full gross-out humor to a more PG-13 sensibility. While sometimes their message of accepting those different from us is pounded a little to hard, "Stuck on You" manages to be both very funny and touching at the same time. All this from the guys who gave us the zipper scene in "Something About Mary". What range. I never would have guessed. "Stuck on You" is mightily enterianing, endearing, and hilarious.
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Summary: Stuck on You Doesn't Stick
Review: When I turn on a Farrelly Brothers film, I expect bawdy, over-the-top comedy that will make me laugh, not because of its sophistication, but because of its sheer absurdity and outrageousness. The Farrelly's last two lackluster installments, Shallow Hal & Stuck on You, barely raised a giggle. For some reason, the Farrelly brothers have gone all sentimental and sensitive, and apart from the general absurdity of the premises of the story, Stuck on You just does not deliver the significant belly laughs of a Dumb and Dumber, for example. The Farrelly brothers seem to have lost their comedic edge, and even appearances by Meryl Streep and Cher cannot add enough interest to the weak storyline to keep it moving forward for nearly two hours. Sadly, the blooper reel is funnier than the film (don't miss Greg Kinnear's extended Ted Koppel and Johnny Carson impressions), and the documentary about the Farrelly's seems to have more of a plot than the feature. I used to watch Farrelly films as a guilty pleasure. The crude, sophomoric humor of Me, Myself, & Irene, Dumb & Dumber, and Something About Mary provided a release and escape without causing me to have to think too much, and that was the Farrelys' forte. In making us sympathetic to the plight of their characters, the Farrelly brothers have also excised almost all the situational humor. Sure, the visual of conjoined twins playing goalie is mildly amusing, but the big laughs just are not there. The Farrelys need to go back to being equal opportunity offenders, and perhaps the laughs will also return.
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Summary: The Farrelly Brothers' love story about conjoined twins
Review: "Stuck On You" is a movie where half of the funniest parts are in the trailer. But as is almost always the case in a Farrelly Brothers comedy, you come for the outrageous comedy and then get a healthy helping of heart because underneath all the "hair gel" and fat suits these guys are trying to make love stories. The Farrelly Brothers might be two of the biggest romantics making movies today. This is not one of their best films, but it does have its moments. In case you somehow missed the trailer "Stuck On You" is about Bo (Matt Damon) and Walter (Greg Kinnear) are a conjoined twins, what someone indelicately calls Siamese twins in the film despite the fact that the boys are American. The fundamental gag here is that they being joined together like this makes them twice as good as anybody else. You might be able to outrun a one legged man, but these guys have four legs so forget about it. They run a burger joint at Martha's Vineyard, work crossword puzzles together, and play goalie for their amateur team. About the only thing they do not do together is that Walter likes to act while Bo, who gets stage fright, has been e-mailing a girl in California for three years. Walt wants to be an actor and talks Bo into heading for California, where people are not as accommodating towards the strange pair as they are back in Massachusetts. Once again the Farrelly Brothers are dealing with a subject that would not be considered politically correct, but after dealing with other personal afflictions and handicaps in their earlier films, this is hardly a surprise. But they have such affection for their characters that you end up thinking that there is something wrong with people who do not find this humor funny. Bo and Walter do not consider themselves handicapped and they are so proficient at everything they do it is hard to fault them for their sense of self-assuredness. The funniest bits in this film, as the trailer indicated, are when the boys play sports. Baseball, football, hockey, or boxing, you do not want to mess with these boys, and when Walter wants to be an actor the stars align so that he gets to co-star with Cher in a television series. The joke actually ends up being on Cher, who thought that acting with a conjoined twin would get her out of her contract. Meanwhile, Bo finally gets to meet his online pen pal, May (Wen Yann Shih), but he is too shy to tell her that there is a reason Walter is always there on his left. Helping the boys keep their secret is April (Eva Mendes), who knows how things work in Southern California and who takes one look at the bridge of flesh joining the brothers and wants to know where they got it done. But eventually the truth comes out and the boys are seriously considering having the surgery that will allow them to live separate lives. Of course, we already know that not even surgery can really separate these two. Cher is not the only Oscar winning actress who shows she is a good sport in this film, because Meryl Streep is also along for the ride. As is usually the case in a Farrelly Brothers film, they work in people they have met who are not stars like Jack Nicholson. This time around it is Ray "Rocket" Valliere, a mentally challenged friend of the brothers who plays a waiter in the burger joint. Be sure to watch the credits where he thanks everybody for getting to make film. Critics keep wanting to take the Farrellys to task for making jokes about handicapped people, but they are never making fun of them and in the end "Stuck On You" is just another one of their love stories.
Rating:
Summary: Stuck on You
Review: Good movie, has some hilarious parts. I recommend it.
Rating:
Summary: Doesn't Work
Review: Watching this movie you can be forgiving about a few things:
1) The subject matter is in very bad taste
2) The story idea is totally ridiculous
3) The acting performances are less than polished. What you cannot however forgive is the fact that this latest gagfest from those auteurs of gross-out comedies, Bobby and Peter Farrelly is actually NOT funny.
I am a firm believer in the premise that "making light of a subject" does NOT automatically mean that the subject is being taken lightly, but that having been said, any moments of levity here are very few and far between. The acting performances are as you would expect, neither great or excessively bad, but the real problem for me was failing to tackle such a thorny issue as Siamese twins by making it insulting rather than humorous.
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