1988 · comedy
Twins
Directed by Ivan Reitman1h 47m1988
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.
Our read: Twins (1988) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want goofy Schwarzenegger-DeVito chemistry and easy 80s comedy comfort.”
Skip it tonight — You cannot tolerate broad slapstick or a premise this proudly ridiculous tonight.
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