Twins (1988)
Directed by Ivan Reitman
Julius and Vincent Benedict are the results of an experiment that would allow for the perfect child. Julius was planned and grows to athletic proportions. Vincent is an accident and is somewhat smaller in stature. Vincent is placed in an orphanage while Julius is taken to a south seas island and raised by philosophers. Vincent becomes the ultimate low life and is about to be killed by loan sharks.
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Twins got a lot of mileage out of the chemistry between mismatched “brothers” Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny Devito.
I'm not sure the visual juxtaposition inherent in the central pairing is as amusing as the filmmakers think (Twins' Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito spoiled us for life in that department).
It’s a little reminiscent of 1988’s “Twins,” which paired up the oddball duo of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito, albeit with considerably ramped-up action.
(Um, not Kevin Hart’s 5’4? but Dwayne Johnson’s 6’5?.) Like 1988’s Twins, with Arnold Schwarzenegger towering over Danny DeVito, there’s a comedic goldmine in the visual disparity alone.
El argumento es absolutamente ridículo, como también lo es el de Junior (1994) o Twins (1988) o Last Action Hero (1993) —por sólo citar tres Schwarzeneggers—.
Despite being, in physical terms, the least plausible siblings since Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger, in “Twins” (1988), Jimmy and Clyde are conjoined in mental sloth.
The film's overseer, comic giant Ivan Reitman ("Ghostbusters", "Twins" and "Dave" among others), probably came up with just the odd suggestion.
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What's even more astonishing than the casting is the fact that veteran director Ivan Reitman (Dave, Twins, Ghostbusters, Stripes, Meatballs) has lost all sense of comic pacing.
That is the carnal proposition posed by No Strings Attached, a romantic comedy in reverse from the legendary Ivan Reitman, director of such screen classics as Stripes (1981) Ghostbusters (1984) and Twins (1988).