Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Supelice Dreadfully Boring

GarnettTeenage The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

jamesb-69559 As it has been pointed out,there are far too many negative opinions of this movie. Personally,I think its some of Keatons best work. To have to get into character for each clone and give them a distinct personality and have them interact with each other is amazingly difficult. People need to ease up on the poor reviews. This is a great film...yes GREAT....and should be seen as such.Has anyone ever seen the making of snip-it that is out for this movie? Keaton had to shoot each scene 3-4 times with the parts of the previously filmed clones playing on monitors off screen to get the interaction right. Once he was done shooting one scene with one character,he changed and came back and shot the scene all over again as another clone with a totally different personality. Its simply amazing in my opinion. Like I said,I think its one of Keaton's best films right along side the two Batman movies he did,Birdman,and,of course, Beetlejuice.

david-sarkies A building contractor is having problems at work, at home, and with his wife because he has found that his time is constantly being eaten up. So when a scientist at a genetic engineering lab tells him about the cloning technology, he decides to snap it up. Soon he has a clone to do his job and the housework while he can go out and enjoy himself. Things are not that easy though because he is trying to keep his clones a secret and they simply want to live a normal life.I guess there are two ideas in this movie: this first is responsibility and the second is the nature of the clone. In this movie we see the hero trying to escape his responsibilities by placing the burdens upon other people. We see the frustrations he has with other people at the beginning of the movie where he feels that he cannot assign tasks to anybody. He is constantly pushing them out of the way so that he may do the job himself. It doesn't help his problems at all though. When he has a clone doing his job, he finds that housekeeping takes over all of his free time, so he gets one to do his jobs there.The clones, interestingly enough, begin to develop their own personalities (which shows us Michael Keaton's acting ability), but the original is not interested in them leading their own lives. He created them for a specific job and that is the job that they must do. This raises the idea as to whether these clones are real people or property. The original treats them as property, but we notice that they want their own lives and want to do their own thing. They even clone themselves, which creates a less efficient one. Through all of this, the original is trying to hide them and stop them from enjoying themselves.When one thinks about them, it is not really possible to create clones to do one's work, as when the clone is created, it becomes a separate person and as such has its own memories, which it does not share with the original. Not only that, they are real people with real desires, and to prevent them from enjoying themselves is like preventing a real person from enjoying themselves, but then they are real people.In conclusion, this is an okay movie, which is slightly twisted, but generally dull. Not something I am going to rave about or even suggest watching more than once.

mike48128 O.K. It's not Keaton's best, but it's by Harold Ramis and his films are always fun and unique. A man has himself cloned to simplify his life and, of course, it becomes quite a mess. It sort of plays like a sequel to "Mr. Mom", as Michael (or his clone) eventually ends up playing a "Mr. Mom" so his wife can return to work, this time, as a "Realtor". Michael does a great job portraying 4 different personalities, including a macho-man, a metro-sexual, a "goofy" copy, and himself, Doug One. The funniest scene in the movie involves Laura's rampant sexuality, right after Doug warns all the clones "not to sleep with my wife". Andie Mcdowell, as Laura, is quite good as his long-suffering wife, but she isn't Terri Garr, so she pretty much plays the "straight-man" to Doug and 3 clones. Many plot-holes, as it is quite unbelievable that absolutely no one would notice "triplets" living in the guest room over the garage. Great special effects. It looks real, not matted in. Like Mr. Mom, the film starts to lose its luster and drags towards the end, but wraps up smartly with Laura looking out the car window and, not believing her eyes, sees all 3 clones drive by on their "road trip" South. The cloning process looks about as real as any sci-fi "techno-babel" ever seen on "Star Trek". I just saw this on "This TV" and have yet to see it uncut. It's a 117 minute film and they ran it in 120 minutes with many commercials. Besides speeding up the film, what did they cut out to fit the time slot? Lots of fun, and it's worth at least one viewing. More if you like Michael Keaton at his funniest. And always remember this: "When you make a copy of a copy it's never as sharp as the original!"

sddavis63 This is not the best comedy ever made, but in all fairness I have to say that I've sat through more than a few comedies and never even cracked a smile. This one on a handful of occasions actually had me laughing out loud, so for that reason alone I have to say it's pretty solid. Michael Keaton is what makes this work so well. It's not just because he's the star - it's that he stars in four roles. It's not a costume comedy, though, which makes his performance all the better. He essentially plays the same character with tweaks and variations to differentiate between them, and he pulls it off brilliantly. Each character is a character of his own, and even the interactions between the characters he plays are pulled off flawlessly so that everything is very natural.The story is tailor made for a comedy revolving around mistaken identity. Keaton's basic character is Doug Kinney, an overworked contractor who's finding that he doesn't have time to keep everything in his life in balance. Hoping for a miracle to help keep his life together he finds himself doing some work for a geneticist who's discovered the secret of "cloning" humans. It's not scientific - the "clones" come out as exact physical replicas rather than as newborn babies with identical genetic material to the original - but this is a comedy, so who cares! It works! Starting with one clone (named, simply, "2") Doug finds that even one copy isn't enough, so he makes another (named, appropriately, "3.") 2 and 3 are completely different from Doug and polar opposites from each other. 2 is a macho, take charge type who happily takes over the contracting business but chafes about having to stay out of sight when he'd much rather be picking up women, while 3 is an effeminate, stay at home type who loves cooking and cleaning. Eventually, 2 and 3 find themselves over-burdened, and they create another clone (named - guess what - "4.") except that 4 is a copy of copy and so, therefore, imperfect, for lack of a better way to put it. Intended to make Doug's life easier, all these 3 clones do is introduce increasing chaos, and at times it is hilarious.Really the only other cast member of note is Andie MacDowell (who teams again with director Harold Ramis as she did in "Groundhog Day") as Doug's increasingly confused wife Laura. Unfortunately, the movie revolves so completely around Doug and the clones that MacDowell, while she was good enough and as always quite lovely, seemed to fade into the background more often than not, so that her talents were generally underused. She's more impressive opposite Bill Murray in "Groundhog Day" than she is here, but that's more a result of the type of movie and the role that it asked of her rather than any deficiency in her performance.This is almost two hours long - which might be a little bit too much for this type of silly comedy. It gets to that length perhaps by trying to introduce too much "drama" (if you will) in the last while about Doug and Laura's faltering marriage. Still, it's a funny movie, and Keaton's performance is worth watching. (7/10)