Stuck on You has a funny premise that really is pretty funny at times, but is drawn out too long and too thin. The idea behind it all is that Bob (Matt Damon) and Walt (Greg Kinnear) were joined at the waist at birth and have been connected their whole life. The nine inch attachment is small enough that they both have full use of both of their arms and legs and big enough that they share a liver and a separation would be dangerous to Walt.

So Bob and Walt go about life in their small Massachusetts town, happily running a hamburger joint until Walt decides he wants to be an actor. Not the both of them – just him. We get some good scenes of Walt doing a “one man show” with Bob just acting lifeless as he goes along with it. But Walt wants more and decides he needs to move to California to find it.

In Hollywood they run into Cher, playing herself, who wants out of her contract and so hires Walt to play the lead male role, hoping it will drive the show into the ground. It has just the opposite effect and Walt becomes a celebrity. Meanwhile, Bob is struggling to gain the affection of a pen pal girlfriend, with whom he’s been in love with for some time.

Their newfound interests begin to drive them apart, which is difficult considering they’re joined at the hip. In a mildly sweet but mostly unaffecting manner, they eventually realize they’re more important to each other than they had realized.

Aside from Cher, Stuck on You has a handful of celebrity cameos including Jay Leno, Luke Wilson, Frankie Muniz, and Meryl Streep in a very un-Meryl-Streep-esque role.

Though Stuck on You does have a good number of hard laughs, way too much of the screen time isn’t funny at all. Neither Damon nor Kinnear are particularly funny and it’s only their situations that bring out real humor. Unnecessarily long both in terms of humor and in narrative, cutting off a full half hour would have done wonders for this film.

As it stands, Stuck on You is a one joke movie that fails to live up to the comedic standards generally attributable to the Farrelly brothers.

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