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Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 2.35:1, Dolby Digital (5.1), Dolby Surround Sound, Outtakes, Featurettes, Audio Commentary, Theatrical Trailers, French, Spanish, Dubbed, English, Subtitled
"Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear make a terrific team" (Newsweek) in this delightfully demented comedy! Conjoin the fun with Bob (Damon) and Walt (Kinnear) Tenor, two brothers who share a passion for life - and a liver. Their unique bond leads to wild complications when Walt decides to pursue his dreams of becoming an actor and persuades his reluctant sibling to go along for the ride! Loaded with over-the-top humor and outrageous antics, Stuck On You will leave you beside yourself with laughter!
"A two-hour, one-joke comedy that never gets old..." Jack Matthews, New York Daily News
"Damon, particularly, stands revealed as a comic ace." Marc Savlov, Austin Chronicle
"Has a fractured fairy-tale charm, even if it isn't a nonstop laugh riot. " Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
Editor's Note
Following the outrageous comedies THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY, SHALLOW HAL, and DUMB AND DUMBER, the Farrelly brothers present yet another humorous romp with STUCK ON YOU. This time around a couple of conjoined twins (Greg Kinnear and Matt Damon) are the focus, and this premise provides for a relentless string of clever, absurd, and always-fresh jokes. Bob (Damon) and Walt (Kinnear) are living happy lives, perfectly content to be joined by a patch of skin that extends from armpit to hip and allows them to share a liver. Though they must do everything in tandem, they are best friends and treat each other as individuals with separate lives. Living on Martha's Vineyard, Bob (Damon) owns a popular local diner where he and Walt work as incredibly fast-moving short-order cooks with all four hands in perfect sync flipping burgers and slicing vegetables--this is one of the best gags in the film. However, as the brothers are shown playing hockey, fighting kung-fu style, cruising for babes in a bar, and taking on basically any other feat imaginable, the laughs only get better. Trouble comes when suave, confident Walt decides to pursue a Hollywood acting career, and Bob's stage fright, panic attacks, and shyness present a personality clash. Nonetheless, they get to meet Meryl Streep, they land a starring role in a television show with Cher, and they find some nice girlfriends. The Farellys keep their signature gross-out humor to a minimum with this likeable film, and provide some truly great, easily digestible physical comedy.
| Features | Scene Selection | | Theatrical Trailer | | Trailers | | Widescreen Version | | Inside Look: Man on Fire Trailer, Day After Tomorrow Trailer | | Interactive Menus | | Behind-The-Scenes Dodgeball | | Bloopers Reel | | Director Commentary | | 3 Featurettes: 1) It's Funny: The Farrelly Formula, 2) Bringing Stuck On You To The Screen, 3) The Makeup Effects Of Stuck On You | | 8 Deleted Scenes | | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound; French, Spanish Dolby Digital Stereo |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Foxvideo |
| Release Date: 12/19/2006 |
| Running Time: 118 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2003 | | Catalog ID: 2221651 | | UPC: 00024543116516 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed, Spanish Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 2.35:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | Entertainment Weekly
"...STUCK ON YOU has a fractured fairy-tale charm..." 12/19/2003 p.54-5New York Times
"[C]hewy....Walt's gargantuan optimism gives the movie a soul." 12/12/2003 p.E1 Los Angeles Times
"Damon and Kinnear give winning codependent performances, with Damon playing boyishly bashful to Kinnear's faux worldliness." 12/12/2003 p.C5 USA Today
"[T]he situations often are hilarious." 12/12/2003 p.11E Chicago Sun-Times
"The movie is funny, but also kind-hearted." 12/12/2003 p.36 James Berardinelli's ReelViews 3 of 10
Ultimately, though, as is always the case with this kind of movie, it comes down to the quantity of yuks. And, for Stuck on You, that number is pathetically low. Plot-challenged movies featuring flaccid comedy are doomed to failure. With the exception of a few clever (albeit recycled) bits surrounding the development of the Walt/Cher TV series, funny moments are scarce. In the end--and it takes nearly two interminable hours to get to that source of welcome relief--my profound dissatisfaction with Stuck on You is based on one simple characteristic: this movie is boring. Indeed, the twins at work here aren't Bo and Walt, they're tedium and boredom.
Village Voice 8 of 10
Damon and Kinnear are both pitch-perfect, inhabiting their ingenuous, codependent little universe together with the commitment of eight-year-old best friends. True to form, the Farrellys toss sophomoric spitballs at us, but nothing stems the rise of big-hearted generosity. - Michael Atkinson
Chicago Sun-Times 8 of 10
The movie is funny, but also kind-hearted. Much screen time is given to Rocket (Ray "Rocket" Valliere), a waiter in the burger joint. He's a mentally challenged friend of the Farrellys, who makes it clear here why they like him. Their approach to handicaps is open and natural, and refreshing, compared to the anguished, guilt-laden treatment usually given to handicapped characters in movies. The fact that Walt hopes to be a movie star is less amazing, really, than that the Farrellys had the nerve to make a comedy about it. - Roger Ebert
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