Twins (1988) movie review

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Arnold and DeVito

Twins is a 1988 comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman (Ghostbusters I & II). It's about a government experiment of making the perfect human being from the seed of 6 great man and one woman. But the experiment goes wrong and turns out twins. Vincent Benedict (Danny DeVito) and Julius Benedict (Arnold Schwarzenegger). As a child Vincent is sent to an orphanage and Julius is raised in a remote island as a strong and smart man who finds out about his twin and wants to go and find him. Vincent however had gone downhill from there. He was stuck in a huge debt of $20,000 to loan sharks, The Klane Brothers, so he steals cars from a parking lot his friend, Al Greco (David Caruso). When Julius arrives in L.A. he finds out how Vincent's life has gone downhill (he had sex with one of the nuns at his orphanage when he was 12!) tries to pull him out of the mess. He finds him in prison and bails him out. But Vincent is not convinced that they're twins (you probably know how different they look).

I loved this movie. It made me literally laugh out loud but again its a little bit of a slow starter. By little bit I mean the first 10 minutes are like a documentary with narrator (Tony Jay) explaining the twins' origins but its all uphill from there. A classic from the 80's I give it a 10/10 for being such an awesome movie and making my day!