Comedy

Twins

Universal Pictures

United States of America

English

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Danny DeVito

Kelly Preston

Chloe Webb

Bonnie Bartlett

Marshall Bell

Trey Wilson

David Caruso

Hugh O'Brian

Tony Jay

Nehemiah Persoff

Maury Chaykin

Tom McCleister

David Efron

Peter Dvorsky

Robert Harper

Rosemary Dunsmore

Lora Milligan

Richard deFaut

Richard Portnow

S.A. Griffin

Billy D. Lucas

Lew Hopson

Frances Bay

Marvin J. McIntyre

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

Wayne Grace

Thomas Wagner

Jay Arlen Jones

Ty Granderson Jones

Elizabeth Kaitan

Tom Platz

Roger Callard

Jason Reitman

Catherine Reitman

Dendrie Taylor

Sven-Ole Thorsen

Gus Rethwisch

Linda Porter

Bruce McBroom

Joe Medjuck

Frank Davis

John Michael Bolger

Steve Reevis

Jeff Beck

Terry Bozzio

Tony Hymas

Nicolette Larson

Jill Avery

Dustin Amy

Heather Graham

Peter Kent

Raymond Storti

Ivan Reitman

Andrzej Bartkowiak

Donn Cambern

William Osborne

Timothy Harris

Sheldon Kahn

William Davies

Michael C. Gross

Herschel Weingrod

Lane Leavitt

James D. Bissell

Georges Delerue

Michael Chinich

Gloria Gresham

Randy Edelman

John T. Walker

Christopher Burian-Mohr

Robert Ostermann

Peter Giuliano

Gordon A. Webb

Peter Afterman

Steve Boyum

Bobby Bass

Debra Bard

Wilma Garscadden-Gahret

Barry K. Thomas

Linnea Ebba Wicklund

Peter Tothpal

Ira S. Rosenstein

William Goldman

Leonard Engelman

Judith A. Cory

Katherine Kotarakos

Peggy Semtob

Joel Kramer

Debbie Evans

Stephanie Epper

Marguerite Happy

Sandra Lee Gimpel

Donna Garrett

Nick Dimitri

Dustin Blauvelt

Toby Phillips

Steven Lee Baer

Stuart Watnick

Ed Verreaux

Jeff Dawn

Bill MacSems

Robert G. Santarella

Pamela Cederquist

Steve Cantamessa

Adrienne Manhan

Gordon Meloeny

Bryan D. Garofalo

Pamela Easley

Nancy Patton

Hope M. Parrish

William James Teegarden

Ellen Adolph

Mark Jennings

Gene S. Cantamessa

Tom Miller

Stuart Fink

Don S. Walden

Dorothy O'Leary

Edward Rossi

William Hartman

Fred Judkins

Joe Gilbert

Jeff Rosen

David Williams

Mark Gordon

Mary Ruth Smith

Richard Friedman

Tom McCarthy Jr.

David M. Ice

Tom Buffum

Saul Saladow

Rick A. Benedetto

Hank Sheppherd

William Kenney

Eero Hautanen

Marlo Hellerstein

Francis N. 'Lucky' Costello

Dylan Gross

Ernie Depew

David Marder

Frank Fitzpatrick

Paula Tracy-Smuin

Chris Strong

Jeffrey James Bell

Cary Griffith

Rodney Veto

So much fun to be had here.

As long as you know what to expect, and really that shouldn't be too hard to do when you are getting ready to watch a movie that has Danny DeVito & Arnold Schwarzenegger as twin brothers!

Julius (Arnold) & Vincent (Danny) are the result of a genetic experiment that should have realised the perfect child, instead they were born as twins, separated at birth and both went on to lead different lives. Julius was raised on a gorgeous island, he is greatly educated and knows no fear of the world, Vincent on the other hand is a low class womanising weasel from the big city. Upon learning of having a twin brother, Julius sets off to the big city to find the brother he never knew he had, trouble is, is that Julius has no comprehension of city ways, and coupled with the fact that Vincent really isn't the brotherly kind, this only compounds the situation further.

Twins is a very tidy piece, the two leads play off of each other very well, and as dumb as the plotting is, it sure as hell makes for a good fun night viewing. Female gravitas comes in the form of the sultry Kelly Preston and the criminally undervalued Chloe Webb, but really the film's charm is all down to the little and large act of DeVito & Schwarzenegger, plenty of laughs here. So open the ale, chomp on the popcorn, and leave the brain at the door. 7/10

Yakety Yak, Yakety Yak.

Kamurai

Good watch, could watch again, and can recommend, if you're okay with a date movie.

This movie holds up surprisingly well.  It is dated quite a bit, just the dollar amounts they mention are off, and car phones and pay phones.  I give full credit to the delivery of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito that keeps this movie enjoyable after all this time.

The premise is almost laughable in 1988, but since then we've come so far as it actually being possible that this moves from science fiction to realistic fiction.

Yeah DeVito's character is awful on the redeemable side, and Schwarzenegger is comically pure, but it's about using both extremes to find a middle ground in the solutions to our problems.  It is also about families reuniting, and strengthening bonds: it's a touching story when you get past the comedy and gunfire.

Worth a watch if you can stand a trip in the way back machine to 1988.

Fun and all around enjoyable comedy that doesn't devolve into cheap humor (i.e. constant jokes about their height for instance) and instead two opposites working well off of one another. Schwarzenegger is great as sweet innocent and naïve while Devito as a schemer and crook still was likeable. **3.75/5**

I think I had seen this sometime back in the 90s but didn't remember much of it.

<em>'Twins'</em> is terrific!

It is another one 'of those films' that I've heard about for as long as time (though post-watch it doesn't seem as (relative) well known as I thought it was!) but clearly never got around to watching it. Well I have now and I'm certainly glad I did, it's a great watch. Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger are a fantastic duo.

DeVito is always good, one of my favourites to see onscreen. Schwarzenegger impresses, I've obviously seen a decent amount of his work but I'd have to say this is the most I've enjoyed him so far I think. I have basically only seen him as a brute force machine before, so it's pleasant to see a performance of his with a bit more depth.

Interesting to see Kelly Preston appear, even if I wouldn't have recognised her if it wasn't for the opening credits. I enjoyed Marshall Bell's role, one I actually would've liked to have seen more of to be honest - he made for a good bad guy!

It'a a shame that we won't be getting a sequel to this, it would've been awesome to see DeVito and Schwarzenegger back together older... especially with the early rumoured addition of Eddie Murphy. I reckon that would've been fun.

Kali

It's... fine?

Not as good as it was hyped up to be in my opinion. The movie was okay, but it wasn't anything special. It had _a story_ but it wasn't outstanding. The same goes for every other aspect of the movie. Worth watching if it's your thing, even if only for DeVito's performance, which is probably the best bit of the movie.

There are definitely parts of the movie that heavily rely on Marnie's attractiveness instead of the storyline and acting, trying to play it off as comedic when Julius doesn't understand what's going on- but that's obviously not what's going on here.

Overall, 6/10. Movie is fine, worth watching, but I don't think I would ever list it in a top movies list or anything.

**_Schwarzenegger and DeVito team-up for this amusing 80’s road dramedy_**

A genetically superior man living on an island in the South Pacific (Arnold) goes to Los Angeles to find his long lost twin brother, who turns out to be a womanizing petty criminal (Danny). Along with two sisters (Kelly Preston and Chloe Webb), they travel to New Mexico to find their father and mother while eluding loan sharks.

“Twins” (1988) is similar to "Three for the Road" from the year prior (starring Charlie Sheen, Alan Ruck and Kerri Green). Both are dramedies, but fun road movies at heart with an adventurous spirit. “Thelma & Louise” came out a few years later and was cut from the same cloth, just taking the tragedy route. 

While “Three for the Road” is just as good and arguably better, it failed at the box office and went into obscurity whereas this one skyrocketed to surprise success, making 14.5 times its cost worldwide.

It’s perhaps the best movie to see the late Kelly Preston in the prime of her beauty.  

It runs 1 hour, 47 minutes, and was shot in the Los Angeles area and northern New Mexico (Rio Grande Gorge Bridge, Los Alamos and Sante Fe).

GRADE: B+

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