Twins (Twins (DVD))

Member Name: blissman70

Product:	Twins (DVD)
Date:	12/07/08 (51 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: good entertaining movie

Disadvantages: none

Director and Producer: Ivan Reitman
Writers: William Davies, Timothy Harris, William Osborne and Herschel Weingrod Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Kelly Preston, Chloe Webb, Bonnie Bartlet and Tony Jay.

Released in late 1988 this great comedy involved the very questionable twins, Julius and Vincent Benedict, who were separated at birth then reunited years later.

Apparently, only there mother can tell them apart???


**BRIEF PLOT**

With Julius Benedict, (played by the rather large Arnold Schwarzenegger) being brought up on a picturesque island miles from normal life, he has grown into a calm and tranquil type of person.
His life soon turns upside down when he is told that he has a twin brother called Vincent, (played by Danny DeVito), who is living somewhere in L.A. so with this information Julius sets out to find him.

The day Julius tracks Vincent down he soon realises that his long lost twin is a bit of a street hustler and a part time car thief who is in a lot of financial trouble from some really violent loan sharks.

When Vincent steals a car to try and pay off some of his debt he soon realises that the contents of the car are worth a lot more than he could ever imagine, with this he then decides to try to sell the contents, soon regretting it when things don't go according to plan.

The twins soon come to realise that they have more of a connection than they first thought.....


**IN CONCLUSION**

I first saw this one many years ago and enjoyed it then, enjoying the comical banter between the so called twins.

When I watched it again on the television this very day I suddenly remembered why I first enjoyed it.

The unlikely pairing of DaVito and Schwarzenegger as twins is almost unbelievable but as the movie runs you soon realise that it could quite be possible.

Schwarzenegger is his usual half wooden self with his struggling pigeon English and his bad acting, but his bulging muscles and tremendous strength seem to hide the fact.

DaVito, on the other hand, does a brilliant impression of a lovable rogue with a passion for fast cars and even faster women, In fact it is DaVito who keeps the movie as entertaining as it is. He plays his usual comical self, as he does in all his movies, like Romancing the stone with Michael Douglas and Ruthless People with Bette Midler.

Don't get me wrong, Schwarzenegger is an entertaining actor and does a lot for this movie but he really excels in major violent and bloody movies, such as Predator or the Terminator...and Twins is not a violent bloody movie, more a Sunday afternoon family movie to relax whilst watching.

In all Twins is a fine movie and is well worth watching. There is a bit of violence but not too excessive, more fist fights than shoot outs.
If you do like to see the big guy shooting hundreds of people whilst kicking his way out of a P.O.W. camp in Vietnam then this one is not for you....
But if you have seen Kindergarten cop and thought Schwarzenegger approach to non violent movie acting was good then 'Twins' is for you.

Would I recommend it...??
Yes I would, for the entertainment value and DaVito's great wit it is worth sitting down with the family for an hour and forty five minutes.

Summary: Only their mother can tell them apart....apparently.....