Bob (Matt Damon) and Walt (Greg Kinnear) are conjoined twins (or, for the less politically correct amongst us, Siamese twins). They are literally joined at the hip, they have been their entire life. This causes some obvious awkwardness for them – dating is an issue, and obviously so is sex, but they make the best of their situation and have made a decent living as line cook at their own hamburger join which they run in a small New England town.

One of Walt's favorite past times is performing on stage at the local theater. He's always wanted to be an actor and finally decides that he needs to make his attempt at the big time and move to Hollywood. Obviously, Bob has to go with him but he's willing to give it a shot for his brother's sake. Things don't go too well for Walt though, until a chance encounter with Cher (playing herself) leads to a lead on a legal drama that propels Walt to stardom.

While Walt is busy with his Hollywood career, Bob is stressing over the fact that he'll be meeting, in person for the first time, a girl who he's met and subsequently fallen in love with over the internet. The only problem there is that she doesn't know that he and Walt are conjoined, and he's not exactly wanting her to find out now after putting on a façade for so long.

Eventually, the brothers are forced to make a decision as to whether or not they need to have a medical operation to get separated or not, as their lives start leading them in different directions – Walt wants to stay in Hollywood as his star is on the rise and Bob wants to go back to the restaurant and live a quiet life in a small town.

Bobby and Peter Farrelley have been responsible for some absolutely hilarious films in their decade long career of movie making. Dumb And Dumber and Kingoin remain personal favorites and even though I've seen them so many times that the jokes are old hat by now, they still never fail to get a laugh out of me. Too bad I can't say the same thing about Stuck On You. The film has it's moments – an incident involving some romantic mood music made me bust a gut and Cher's affair with a famous child star cracked me up – but the humor is rather predictable and what starts off as an interesting look at a rather touchy subject quickly heads into the dreaded 'feel good comedy' territory.

Damon and Kinnear are decent enough in the leads and Cher, who normally drives me nuts, is good in her supporting role. A few of the character actors in the smaller bit parts also stand out in a few scenes, which builds up a likeable cast of characters, but the movie can only be as good as it's weakest link. Sadly, that weakest link is the script, which gets off to a strong start but quickly sours and results in a movie that, while it has it's moments, is probably only worth seeing once (and only if you have nothing else to watch). It's not terrible, it's just mediocre, which is made all the worse by the fact that it did show some potential.

Video:

Stuck On You gets a very nice 1.85.1 anamorphic widescreen transfer that results in a highly detailed picture with nice, natural looking flesh tones, deep and consistent black levels, and barely a hint of print damage. There is some reasonably active edge enhancement that you'll pick up if you find yourself looking for it but aside from that the movie looks very nice.