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Twins

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment/Sony Pictures Home Entertainment . R4 . COLOR . 102 mins . PG . PAL

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Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito team up for the first time, the second being Junior. An experiment to create the worlds perfect man produces Julius Benedict, Arnold, who is raised up on a secluded island to become perfect in mind, body and soul. But certain complications in the process produced a twin brother as the rejected genes of the experiment split from the perfect genes. When Julius is told about his twin brother he sets off to America to find him.

In America we find Vincent Benedict, DeVito, on the run from loan sharks whom he owes some $20,000. Due to this, Vincent, with the aid of his car park attendant friend, steals some expensive car in exchange for money. Returning to his car one night, Vincent receives a parking fine and is soon taken to jail for having 200 outstanding fines.

Julius finally finds Vincent in jail and seizing the opportunity, Vincent uses Julius to bail him out. But trying to lose Julius is pretty hard when he is so determined to get to know his brother and soon the duo are working together to help Vincent "find rich cars and auction them off for charity".

After finding a new cadilac, the twins unknowingly stumble across some important equipment. When Vincent is contacted about the goods he attempts to negotiate for $20,000 not knowing that his mysterious phone friend is talking millions.

Vincent attempts to take the car to his payee and doesn't tell anyone about his holiday. Julius wants to tag along as he feels it would be a good chance to look for their mother who they thought died at birth. The twins girlfriends tag along, loan sharks in tow and a hitman after 'his' million dollars fee.

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We are presented with a mediocre pan & scan version of this film. The simple fact that no widescreen version was included on a format that is supposed to be the elite form of home video presentation is a slap in the face.

The pan & scan version is of low quality source. There is a lot of grain in the signal and some noticeable mpeg artifacting is present.

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You get 4 surround tracks on this disc. I didn't bother with having the surround on and watched the movie in stereo. It was a decent soundtrack, nothing spectacular, and dialogue was intelligible if you can undesrtand Arnies accent.

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Funnily enough we get the trailer in a 1.85:1 widescreen format. Hmm, someone got this wrong, it's usually the other way around isn't it. Well the quality of the trailer is alot worse than that of the movie itself.

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I can't really promote this dvd at all. Twins is not one of Arnies blockbusting titles, although it is a blockbuster in its own right, but it's going to take more than Arnie and a Pan & Scan transfer to convince people that they need to get rid of their VHS version.


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