Twins

Day 163 - 6/12/09 - Movie #162

BEFORE: Another film about Schwarzenegger and genetic mishaps...

THE PLOT: A physically perfect, but innocent, man goes in search of his twin brother, who is a short small-time crook.

AFTER: Ugh, why did I make myself watch this? It's a movie based on one sight gag - that Arnold and Danny DeVito don't look alike, which I kinda already knew. The concept of Arnold as an overgrown genius man-child is somewhat interesting, but they didn't do enough with it. Besides, what kind of genius goes on a road trip with 3 other people in a Cadillac and never thinks to put the luggage in the trunk?

There's about 15 minutes of plot stretched out over a 105-minute movie. Whose bright idea was it to get Schwarzenegger to do light comedy? And the premise makes no sense - what good does it do to combine the genetic material of 6 men? Only one of their cells is going to fertilize the egg, right? It's not like they were combining the best gene strands from each donor...

RATING: 3 out of 10 stolen cars