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Stuck On You- You Actually Might Stick To It
Stuck On You, the new Farrelly brothers comedy is actually charming and funny. Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear play Bob and Walt Tenor, they're conjoined twins. They own a burger restaurant in Martha's Vineyard and are pretty happy with it. Soon Walt (Kinnear) wants to be an actor and move to Hollywood to achieve his dream. Damon reluctantly accepts (well he doesn't have much choice). In Hollywood, Bob & Walt meet with Cher, an actress on a TV show. Soon, Walt auditions for the show and he gets the role he wants and he soon becomes a mega-hit star. The premise is not totally disposable, surprisingly I might add. The Farrelly brothers can devise something relatively creative and entertaining. Damon is great, but Kinnear really is the entertainer of this comedy. Eva Mendes comes in as the love interest of Kinnear's character.
Stuck On You offers quite a bit of laughs, of course not at all as funny as the Farrelly's, "There's Something About Mary," but definetly an improvement from the last film, "Shallow Hal." Stuck On You is rated PG-13 for Crude and Sexual Humor and Some Language. The humor isn't highly explicit or graphic and the profanity is moderate, and not strong. All and all, a fine comedy with good laughs. Seeing in theatres isn't a bad decision, but would definetly be better as a rental.

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New meaning for "buddy system"
The Farrelly brothers have a knack for producing films (SHALLOW HAL, DUMB AND DUMBER, KINGPIN) about awkward subjects in a manner such that they'd be taken to task for political incorrectness if the results weren't so funny.

In STUCK ON YOU, Bo (Matt Damon) and Walt (Greg Kinnear) are the owners of a Martha's Vineyard burger joint in which they also do the cooking. This doesn't sound like the basis for much of a plot except that Bo and Walt are twins conjoined above the hip. They share a liver, most of which belongs to Bo - a situation that has so far caused them to reject the surgical separation that would perhaps endanger Walt's life. In any case, they'd decided long ago that their condition wouldn't hold them back. So, when Walt announces that he wants to go to Hollywood and become an actor, Bo decides to go along (so to speak). Of apparent benefit to Bo is that his internet girlfriend, May (Wen Yann Shih), lives in Los Angeles. There are problems though. Bo has acute stage fright, and he's never even told May that he has a brother. Walt, however, firmly believes that everything will work out. He even suggests that Bo can be his stunt double so he, Walt the Star, won't get hurt.

While watching this clever and highly entertaining comedy, I was impressed by the amount of movement choreography and rehearsal that must have been necessary for Damon and Kinnear to act in concert in some very intricate ways. This is apparent as we watch the twins cook-up six burgers in 3 minutes to meet their restaurant's standing promise ("Food in 3 minutes, or it's free!"), play baseball, ice hockey, and football, slow dance with dates, and beat up on a a group of harassers. Then there's the bit when they get into a fist fight with each other that's worth the price of admission.

Several screen personalities appear as themselves, most notably Cher and Meryl Streep. The former pokes great fun at her real life public persona. In my opinion, Cher is to be admired and applauded for evidently not taking herself too, too seriously. I can't imagine most of Tinseltown's prima donnas taking similar swipes at their overblown images.

Awhile ago, I saw CALENDAR GIRLS, to which I granted five stars simply because it was unpretentious, pure entertainment that left me completely satisfied and with a grin on my face. At the risk of cheapening the 5-star rating, I'm awarding STUCK ON YOU the same. It's not a great film and likely won't be nominated for any Oscars but, you know, great good fun in any form shouldn't be over-analyzed by snobbish reviewing. Life is too short.

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A Disappointment
I saw Greg Kinnear in Sabrina and As Good as It Gets, and thought that he was marvelous in both. I saw Matt Damon in Ocean's Eleven, and thought he was great in that as well.

I saw Shallow Hal, which was also directed by the Farelly brothers, and thought that (aside from being kind of stupid) it was really funny.

I hated this film, and there weren't any redeeming qualities at all. I kept waiting for Kinnear and Damon's wonderful acting abilities to pop out and completely bring back the entire movie.

It didn't happen.

I wouldn't recommend this to anyone- it was a complete disappointment for me.