I’ve been reading reviews of the new movie from the Farrelly brothers, Stuck on You. The movie is about a pair of conjoined twins, played by Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear.
The reviews have been pretty positive, and the movie may be funny as hell, but what puzzles me is that not a single review I’ve seen mentions the obvious fact that conjoined twins are identical. I have to assume that having them played by actors who don’t even look like brothers, let alone identical twins, was a deliberate comedic decision, but nobody seems to be commenting on it. Am I missing something?
(On the other hand, apparently some folks think it’s ridiculously PC to say “conjoined twins” instead of “Siamese twins”. I’m not really sure what their problem is with using an accurate medical term rather than a slang expression derived from 19th century show business.)
No, I haven’t seen this movie and will not, I really hate the premise, and from what I have seen from the trailer and commericials, it looks like it Sucks Ass.
Yep, you’re missing the NY Times review: “Walt has less of their liver than Bob — it’s how the movie explains why a separation surgery would be risky, since there’s only a 50-50 chance that Walt would survive. (It’s also the excuse for Walt looking older; Mr. Kinnear is seven years Mr. Damon’s senior, but that doesn’t explain why he seems to be wearing Jeff Daniels’s hair from Dumb and Dumber.)”
And the Village Voice: " . . . a comedy about conjoined twins, played by the preposterously unidentical Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear . . ."
Oh…I thought this thread was going to be about other comedic conjoined twins, not a gripe about these ones…
Well, dammit, I have two examples and I’ll be damned if I’m not going to mention them! Raleigh and Raymond Friend played the Hurry Up Twins in David Lynch’s short-lived series On The Air, and the Original Hilton Sisters, Daisy and Violet, didn’t live to see their melodrama/semi-biopic Chained For Life re-edited by Night Flight into a Twin Peaks parody, “Twin Geeks.”
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But, wait a minute- those conjoined twins they always showed on the talk show circuit, the ones joined at the head… Lori and Dori or something. They aren’t anywhere near identical. What’s the medical reasoning for that?
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In response to your last question, I hate to say this, but I have yet to see a Farrelly movie I liked. I’ll probably just avoid this one.
"Toss out any notions you may have about the biological impossibility of conjoined fraternal twins, and forget that Kinnear looks older than Damon while you’re at it – we’re in Farrelly-land, "
