Stuck on You

Plot synopsis:
Conjoined twins Bob and Walt Tenor try to live as normally as possible. Outgoing and sociable Walt aspires to be a Hollywood actor, however, whereas shy, introverted Bob prefers the quiet life. They run Quikee Burger, a diner in Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard, that guarantees free meals to customers whose orders are not completed in three minutes, a testament to how skilled and in sync Bob and Walt are with each other. Though Walt is comfortable socializing with women, Bob is the shyer of the two, and carries on a long-distance relationship with a pen pal named May Fong whom he has never met in person, and who is unaware that they are conjoined twins.
Walt gets a role in a local play. Bob stays as much as possible in the background, as he has a tendency to get stage fright. Following the play's success, Walt decides to follow his dream to Hollywood and persuades his hesitant brother to go along for the ride. They rent an apartment in California and become friends with fellow aspiring actress April Mercedes. When she expresses curiosity about their conjoinment, Walt explains that they share a liver that is mostly Bob's, and that because surgical separation entails a higher risk to Walt, Bob would not consent to the surgery, even though Walt favored it. It is also the reason why Walt appears somewhat older than Bob. (Greg Kinnear is seven years older than Matt Damon in real life.)
Walt's efforts to find acting work in Hollywood are fraught with difficulty, and his agent, Morty O'Reilly, is little help, offering at one point to get him a job in a pornographic film. Cher is upset that she has ended up starring in a prime-time TV show called Honey and the Beaze. She wants out of the deal, so she decides to hire Walt as her co-star (since her contract states she can choose anyone she wants), certain the show will get cancelled. The producers, realizing Cher's scheme, foil it by going forward with the production, compensating for Bob's presence by keeping him out of the camera frame and employing bluescreen effects. The show is a surprise hit and Walt becomes famous.
Walt arranges for May Fong to come to California. Although he did this without Bob's consent, Bob and May Fong develop a romantic relationship, though the twins' attempt to keep their conjoined nature a secret proves challenging, especially since Walt must accompany the new couple everywhere, sometimes using creative solutions like disguising himself as a giant teddy bear. Eventually however, when May discovers the twins in bed, she concludes that they are a homosexual couple rather than brothers. Although Bob shows May that they are indeed conjoined twins, May is nonetheless in even greater shock at the deception, and flees.
Morty informs the twins that word has leaked about Walt and Bob being conjoined. Rather than hide this, the twins decide to embrace it, and they both become huge celebrities, making commercials and appearing on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. While Walt enjoys this success, he knows that Bob is unhappy because he misses May. Resolving that Bob needs to be independent from him in order to be happy, Walt demands they be surgically separated. When Bob refuses, Walt, determined to convince him, begins acting wild and crazy until Bob can no longer take it. Walt starts to make a fool of himself by getting drunk and accidentally snatching a woman's purse. They eventually end up spending the night in jail for drunk driving; even though Walt was drinking, Bob is the one who suffers the hangover since their shared liver is mostly his. When they are released the following morning, they get into a fight and Bob decides to go with the operation.
On the night before the surgery, May shows up and apologizes to Bob for running out the way she did. Bob informs her that they're getting separated; although she does not want them to, he knows that it's best for them. At the hospital, May and April keep a vigil until learning from Ben Carson, a real-life neurosurgeon playing a cameo role, that the surgery was successful. Bob and May, both being small-town people, decide to move back to Oak Bluffs, but Bob finds the separation from Walt difficult, both practically and emotionally, and is unable to do the things by himself that the twins used to do together, such as maintain Quikee Burger's three-minute challenge or play hockey. Walt, for his part, loses his job when Honey and the Beaze is canceled due to low ratings, and finds it difficult to find subsequent work. He is also emotionally devastated by Bob's absence. After having a brief talk with Cher about what's best for him, he decides to move back to Oak Bluffs.
One year later, Walt and Bob are back in Oak Bluffs running the restaurant together, Bob and May have married and May is pregnant. The twins simulate their former conjoinment with Velcro clothing that attaches them to one another. Walt finds creative fulfillment continuing in local plays, including a musical in which he and Meryl Streep play Bonnie and Clyde.

Tags: romantic, flashback

Review:
I went into the cinema with friends and said: "It's a Farrelly Brothers film; you can guess the level of humour." There's Something About Mary I love, but let's face it -- the humour is quite crass, even if the movie does have some heart.
Walt decides to move to California to try his luck at the big time, and although Bob is initially reluctant, he also has a beautiful "Internet pal" in California who he's been talking to for more than three years.Compared to some of directors Bobby and Peter Farrelly's other films, such as Dumb and Dumber, There's Something About Mary, and Me, Myself And Irene, we could say that the humor in Stuck On You is much more subtle.
If you are familiar with Daisy and Violet Hilton's story, for example--they were infamous sideshow performers who were conjoined twins--you'll note similarities, such as how they approached relationships with persons of the opposite sex.Like much of the Farrelly Brothers other work, however, Stuck On You is as heartwarming as funny, and on one level, it's primarily a very odd romance film.
That is apparently the case with Stuck On You, the Farrellys latest and tamest, but it's also one of their sweetest and funniest films to date.Bob and Walt Tenor (Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear) are conjoined twins who've spent their whole lives in Martha's Vineyard.
But the show is an unexpected success thanks to Walt's burgeoning popularity, which puts a crimp in his relationship with Bob.Reviewing comedies has always been a bit difficult for me, which is why I usually stick to the stuff that I find easier to write about (action/adventure, horror, drama, anything but comedy), but given all the knocks this film has taken (particularly the fact that barely anybody saw it in theaters) I felt a slight sense of obligation to mention that Stuck On You is the funniest and most touching comedy I've seen in recent memory.This is not to say that the film always had me choking with laughter (though a scene involving a guy in front of his typewriter did get the biggest laugh out of me all year), but rather that it consistently delivered smiles, chuckles, and solid laughs without ever bogging down, no easy feat for a movie that runs for just under two hours.Aside from the lack of sexual humor, there's a major difference between the style of comedy the Farrellys employ here than in some of their prior films.
Had not even half of the jokes worked as well as they did, their performances would still warrant this movie a passable recommendation.Stuck On You doesn't always juggle its various subplots perfectly; while Wen Yann Shih does play well into the film, a lot of brief cameos and a wide assortment of characters aren't meshed in as well.
The magic of Stuck On You is that its protagonists are always the same throughout, making no genuine "it's a miracle!" revelations about themselves at the last minute; after all, brotherly love is still brotherly love.When the last twenty minutes threaten to devolve into sentimental clap-trap, the Farrellys punch in the necessary humor that defuses any of the building sap (spoiler:I think my favorite scene in the whole film is when Bob and Walt re-unite after parting their separate ways, in a scene that's both hilarious and touching), making the film sweet without getting too sweet.
Going into this movie i expected another typical Farrelly movie, fearing i might hate it because the past years i haven't been such a big fan of dumb comedies, but this is actually very different, it is definitely a comedy, and it has a lot of small sketches that can crack you up, but underneath all the comedy they really managed to create a film with personal meaning, moral, and most important in this movie is the warm feeling you get off it.What saves this movie really is the slight seriousity below the comedy, the movie does never try to be stupid and it works all the way through, you get really personal with the two main characters, who btw does an outstanding job, both of them are great in their roles, and i think it's good to see Matt Damon showing his potential, once again, in a very different genre than his former work.The strength of the movie really is all these small sketches, there are so many, and they are just funny, every single one of them, how they work together, it's just so well made, small jokes that you may forget fast, but at the time they work, and the fight in the disco was just so great hehe, i couldn't help it, i loved it, the movie made me laugh, just as i thought i would never find a movie again that could make me laugh, i think it's nice to see that there are still comedies that are based on the comedy, that are funny without being dumb.
'Stuck On You' is a cult-movie, directed by the Farrelly brothers and having the participation of famous persons, such as Meryl Streep (uncredited), Cher and Griffin Dunne.
So, it's with great reluctance that I write a less than stellar review of "Stuck On You".It's not a horrible film, but like many recent Farrelly releases it's muddled and illustrates a tug of war between the movies the Farrellys want to make the and movies the Farrelly's fans want them to make."Stuck On You" tells the tale of Bob and Walt Tenor, conjoined twins who live a good, peaceful life on Nantucket Island.
Eva Mendes is primarily a cleavage delivery device in "Stuck On You", which is a shame because she's not a bad actress and she could have some comedic chops.How are Greg Kinnear and Matt Damon in this film?
That something is taking a story about goofy conjoined twins (Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear), tossing in bathroom and masturbation jokes, and then seeing a basic metaphor about the loss people feel when separated from another human being with whom they have spent their lives.I commend the Farrellys because `Stuck on You' does not play for the broadest laughs but gently lampoons pretentious Hollywood and overtly praises the sincere emotions of two linked humans and the New England town that loves them regardless of their disability.
The Farrellys are not the Coens, whose satire is more Kaufmans' `Adaptation' (Even if the brother is only imagined) than Zuckers' `Airplane.' But the Farrellys' five major motion pictures make them as bankable as any other successful brothers in the business.Seeing diva Cher make fun of herself and Meryl Streep cutup as co-star with Kinnear in a musical stage production of `Bonnie and Clyde'(Think `Springtime for Hitler') are a couple of reasons to see this film.
It seems here like the Farrellys, who are known for their bad taste, wanted to make fun of conjoined twins, but felt like it may upset some people, so instead they cast them in a loving light, but don't know what to do with it.
Nice comedy does not work for the Farrellys.Bob (Matt Damon) and Walt (Greg Kinnear) have been stuck together for all of their lives.
Back to the Farrellys for a minute, more jokes could have been made not at the expense of conjoined twins but just with them, something like in Airplane 2: The Sequel.I don't understand why everyone makes fun of Damon's acting, he's a solid actor, and he wasn't half bad here, but Kinnear was his better half.
Take "Stuck On You".It's the story of Bob (Matt Damon) and Walt Tenor (Greg Kinnear), conjoined twins remaking their lives when extroverted Walt pursues his acting dreams in Hollywood and introverted Bobby must go along for the ride.
Damon and Kinnear display nice chemistry, and I chuckled a couple of times.But the Farrellys seem more interested in displaying their humanity than making a funny film.
This film has below average acting and plot development, and fails to keep the audience interested in the movie for longer than 5 minutes.I believe the film tries to be both a comical experience as well as a mushy love story at the same time, but there is no way of knowing for sure because the film does a horrible job of emphasizing both qualities.
Maybe you saw the trailer and still thought it wouldn't be any good.Well, all those statements applied to me, and I'm telling you to forget it all, because "Stuck On You" is easily the Farrelly brothers' best film since the classic "There's Something About Mary".Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear play Bob and Walt Tenor, conjoined ("siamese") twins living in Martha's Vineyard, and are popular and well-liked there.
I am continually amazed at his ability to play any kind of character, whether it's an action hero like in "The Bourne Identity" or a complete dweeb like in "Stuck On You" (and anything in between) and do it convincingly.Cher is also quite a good sport to play herself as such a mean prima donna for most of the movie.I also really like the way the Farrelly brothers like to include handicapped people in small roles of their films without any hint of being pretentious or pious about it.
Most notable in this film is Ray "Rocket" Valliere, a mentally handicapped man who gives one of the most likeable performances in the movie."Stuck On You" isn't perfect (the middle section is a bit dry), but for the most part it's a very entertaining, very funny, and yes, even touching film that is never less that fun to watch.
Stuck On You (2003) Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear, Eva Mendes, Wen Yann Shih, Ray "Rocket" Valliere, Cher, Pat Crawford Brown, Tommy Songin, Terence Bernie Hines, Seymour Cassel, Griffin Dunne, Jay Leno, Meryl Streep, Frankie Muniz, D: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly.
One-joke comedy about Damon and Kinnear, a pair of conjoined twin brothers, leaving their burger joint in Martha's Vineyard so one of them can pursue his dream of Hollywood stardom.
This is a particular shock considering that the film is the brainchild of the Farrelly Brothers, who practically took out the patent on outrageous and insane ribald comedy.Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear star as twins, conjoined from birth, who leave their home in Martha's Vineyard to seek fame and fortune as actors in Hollywood.
The biggest laugh I had in a movie for a long time was when it is revealed who her boyfriend is.One more thing: that scene where Damon and Kinnear flip the burgers together was pretty cool.My rating:4 out of 10.
The Farelly brothers are pidgeon-holed for making gross-out comedies based on the strength of a few scenes of some of their most popular movies, such as "Dumb and Dumber" and "There's Something about Mary." When their 2003 movie "Stuck on You," arrived at cinemas people wrongly assumed that it would contain more of those types of shenanigans.Instead, the humor in "Stuck on You" is much more subtle and sweet-natured.
I'm actually not sure why this worked for me but it did -on a very basic level.Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear play conjoined twins Walt and Bob whose brotherly bond is tested when Bob decides to leave their idyllic hometown life and pursue an acting career in Los Angeles.
Stuck On You is a great comedy movie with a well written storyline that is filled with plenty of hilarious and cringe worthy scenes and a cast that clearly had a lot of fun starring in this movie.I am a huge fan of the Farrelly brothers,and while I certainly don't think this movie is anywhere near as memorable as movies like Dumb and Dumber and There's Something About Mary,it still is packed with plenty of moments that will make you know it is definitely a Farrelly brothers movie,and it had me laughing all the way through.I was surprised that they got Matt Damon to be in this,it's nothing I like what he has done before and nothing he will ever do again,but it was great to see him take on something very different,and the chemistry between him and Greg Kinnear is what makes this movie.Stuck On You is certainly not the Farrelly brothers finest movie,but I would still recommend it to fans and to anyone looking for a good comedy.Two Siamese twins find each other "separating" when they learn that they have two very different dreams after one brother forces to other to go to LA with him in order to pursue an acting career.Best Performance: Greg Kinnear Worst Performance: Cher.
Bob (Matt Damon) and Walt Tenor (Greg Kinnear) are conjoined twins living in Martha's Vineyard.
The story focuses on Bob (Damon) and Walt (Kinnear), a pair of conjoined twins who are stuck together at the hip.
Walt decides that after being a long-suffering actor in Massachusetts he should try his luck in Hollywood, and Bob reluctantly agrees to follow him.After a string of failed gigs, Walt becomes acquired by Cher, and this leads to his success on a network drama, at the same time trying to hide the fact that he is a conjoined twin to his audience.Stuck on You is a rare comedy, and it reminds me a lot of Adam Sandler's surprisingly good 50 First Dates.
Overall, the film is much more subtle, which is either good or bad depending on how you like your comedies.The humour here isn't as slapstick & madcap as you might expect from a movie about conjoined twins.
Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear turn in really great performances.They are certainly funny, and deliver the lines and the physical comedy in a way which makes you feel that they had a terrific time doing so.
Cher's role and Meryl Streep's cameo are also delightful.The Farrelly brothers usually make some gross but funny comedies, but there is really something about "Stuck on You" that warms people and make people laugh..
The idea of Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear as Siamese twins might sound a bit odd in theory, but trust the Farrelly brothers (Dumb & Dumber, There's Something About Marry) to turn this twisted theme into a touching dramedy with just the right amount of laughter as well.Damon and Kinnear star as Bob and Walt, conjoined twins who decide to make it big in Hollywood despite their joint problem (pun intended).
Bobby and Peter Farrelly, the kings of gross-out comedy, select a typically 'taboo' subject for their sixth collaboration, but shy away from inserting any real gross-out gags (when, let's face it, the opportunities are plentiful) choosing instead to journey into a clichéd area of sentimentality that leave this comedy feeling as bland as any other second-rate comedy coming out of Hollywood these days.Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear play the conjoined twins  presumably Ben was busy  and, while Damon makes a good job of playing Bob, the more shy and less assertive of the pair, Kinnear's more confident twin Walt is played a little too broadly at times.
Comedy directed by the Farrelly-brothers ("There is Something About Marry") starring Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear ("As Good As It Gets") and Cher.
Matt Damon is a great actor and I loved Greg Kinnear in "As Good As It Gets".
I had my doubts on the plot of the film but never took it seriously, And it had its conjoined ins & outs but that's the way its supposed to be, Some parts of the movie I thought about giving up but I could never stay away, But also thought about cracking up even though some of it was of bad taste, And its no great comedy but I am sure you'll find that sometimes you'll laugh hysterically(Chorus) Yes it's true , I was kind of happy to see `Stuck On You' Yes it's true , I was kind of happy to see `Stuck On You' Because I can see that the film was stuck with puns that were quite funnyEnd of song **** Good.
The whole point to a movie like this is to show how stupid and funny it is, that two guys are stuck together, not to show how sad and heartbreaking it is that they not want to always be around one another.Basic Plot:Greg Kinear and Matt Damon star as two brothers, Walt and Bob, who were born connected at the waste, I.E. they're Siamese twins.
It's not laugh- a-minute funny, and some sections even drag on a bit, but there are some really, truly funny bits that more than make up for that - the teddy sequence, Bob's panic attacks at inopportune moments (his brown paper bag wafting into shot when Walt is filming), the brothers' fight etc, usually slapstick, but also some nice timing and expressions from the actors, in fact, both lead performances were really great; I was taken aback by how much I came to care for these characters, who connected really well (no pun intended).
I found this movie easy to watch, with highly likeable characters, and a funny and touching story.Although I didn't like this as much as previous Farrelly films, it was slightly more sentimental than I expected.Recommended for an easy to watch giggle!.
Instead of picking any actress actress to act like a ditz, point and laugh a lot they have to waste the potential credibility of someone who actually has talent.As for Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear, they do as well as you could expect from having to be stuck together for an entire movie.
I mean, come on; its fine to make a movie, even a comedy out of conjoined twins going to Hollywood, but to the extent that they were MAKING FUN and such was just WRONG, and disappointing.Some jokes were funny, ones I crack all the time.
Bob (Oscar-Winner:Matt Damon) and Walt Tenor (Greg Kinnear) are twin brothers, who share a passion and a liver for life.
Greg Kinnear was actually really but the rest of the characters were not as good like Matt Damon.