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The brilliance behind Bobby and Peter Farrelly, the brothers behind such hits as Dumb and Dumber and There's Something About Mary, revolves around their way to combine borderline overtly offensive humour with the ability to care for the characters they create. However, they struck out on Stuck on You. Luckily, the DVD is filled with an immense amount of decent extra features.
Movie:
In the film, Bob (Matt Damon) and Walt (Greg Kinnear) are Siamese twins who are joined at the hip. They do almost everything anyone else can do -- swim, golf, dance -- but of course, they must do it together. Bob refuses to have surgery to separate because there is a 50 percent chance his brother would die during the operation, as most of their liver is in Bob.
Walt decides to pursue a movie career in Hollywood, quickly landing a role in a Cher television show. He must deal with having his brother, who hates being near the camera, along with him while he acts.
Will they separate? Will they begin to hate eachother? Will Bob get the girl of his dreams despite being attached to Walt? All questions the Farrellys try to get the audience to care about. And that worked, a little. The audience develops a relationship with the characters, hoping somehow they both succeed. The cost is the humour. This is not the patented Farrelly Brothers film. There are no movie-stealing scenes where the laughing becomes uncontrollable, like in their past movies. This movie would have worked better if any attempt at humour had been ceased and the movie was pure drama.
2/5
Special Features:
Everything you can expect is in the added bonuses section.
There are 8 deleted scenes. Most of them were useless, not funny at all. A couple were comical and worthy of their inclusion on this DVD, like Cher poking more fun at herself and the twins playing tennis.
The bloopers reel was not that funny, since many of them seemed to be inside jokes on the set, but it was good to see Kinnear do more of his dead-on Ted Koppel imitation.
Two great documentary-styled features are included: one with a detailed history of the Farrelly Brothers and another with a behind-the-scenes look at how Damon and Kinnear were attached. It's amazing how much thought went into developing a way to stick the two actors together. Not only did it need to look good, but it also needed to make sense medically. The whole process of attaching the two took up to 10 hours, where they had to stand in a room while people applied prosthetics to their bodies. Every last detail was taken care of, including adding fake body hair to their prosthetic stomachs.
Another feature is how the movie was brought to the screen. Although it lasts about 10 minutes, it doesn't have much substance: they had an idea, it took 13 years to get it on screen, and now you can watch it on DVD. The other two make up for this waste of time.
4/5
Other Notes:
The movie needed more Eva Mendes.
Overall: 3/5
