Two for one

In what is essentially Farrelly Brothers-lite, the two fashion what seems to a kinder, gentler bad-taste comedy. Seemingly an autobiographical early valentine to each other, this film has, standing in for the gross-out kings (Something about Mary, Dumb and Dumber), conjoined brothers Bob and Walt (Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear, joined at the hip), who refuse to allow their “disability” to hold them back.

Despite running a madly popular burger joint in Martha’s Vineyard, Walt has Tinseltown dreams, and so off they cruise to Hollywood, where after a brief series of misadventures and coincidence, Walt lands a gig in a new cop show featuring fading star Cher (trying to break her contract, the game diva vamps it up, setting the brothers up to make the show fail … and we all know how those kind of schemes pan out in these types of movies, right?).

Meanwhile, Bob works up the courage to break the news to his long-standing e-pal about his brother. Madcap hilarity ensues—sort of. The humor, while at times obvious, isn’t as brutally funny as with past entries, seeming instead to gain giddy joy at times from subtly inserting the old drinking game “Hi, Bob!” into the proceedings. In this case, Stuck on You plays out as light-hearted romp (with an admittedly skewed premise), but don’t expect the delirious derangement of the Farrellys’ earlier efforts.