Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

Onlinewsma Absolutely Brilliant!

Brainsbell The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Hitchcoc The boys marry the sisters of their partner. So Ollie is Stan's wife (in drag of course) and vice versa. The women have the same personalities as their brothers (make sense?) and so they have some of the same issues as the boys. Since it is their first anniversary, the ladies decide to have a party rather than go out. Nothing goes right, including Hardy's sister getting a cake in the face. The funniest scene involves Stanley going to the corner to get some ice cream and some phone calls he has to make because the store doesn't have the flavors they are looking for (for obvious reasons, which I won't let on). The strength of this hilarious little episode is the intersection among the "four" characters. Wonderful stuff.

mark.waltz "Oh, Fanny!" "What do you want?" With this overly dramatic simple line of dialog, we meet Mrs. Laurel and Mrs. Hardy, the frazzled wives of Laurel and Hardy who live together but can't stand each other. Years ago, Stanley married Ollie's sister, and vice versa. The fact that Laurel and Hardy not only play themselves but each other's wives is an automatically hysterical, and the fact that the women are obviously not palsy/walsy like the boys sets up the plot for a ton of verbal and visual gags.The slight plot premise is that it is both of their anniversaries (double ceremony, you know...) and the domineering Mrs. Laurel (complete with the voice of a mature Olivia de Havilland) insists that the two couples spend a quiet evening at home. The preparations for the dinner go awry when Fanny gets more than she bargained for with the cake, a hysterical sight gag involving a painting of British royalty. Then, there's Laurel's attempts to buy ice cream, Mrs. Hardy's request for horse's radish and Mrs. Laurel's reaction to a blow of pepper from the vindictive Mrs. Hardy.While there are other Laurel and Hardy shorts which are more famous (most obviously the Oscar Winning "The Music Box"), "Twice Two" is hysterically funny because it thrives on farce rather than the dark comedy of many of their earlier shorts. It is too bad that they never repeated the roles of the wives, although drag was definitely a sight gag that had been a part of their schtick for years, as well as the subtle gay undertones that may not have entered their minds at the time that they were making these films but was obviously there before the entrance of the production code. This makes a great double bill with "Brats" where they play themselves as adults and their bratty children.

Shaolin_Apu There are certain clichés that almost every comedian has done some time. One of them is dressing as the opposite sex and in this film you get to see how well Laurel & Hardy manage to entertain as ladies. The best individual concept in this bit is the fact that the pair has married each others sisters, who both "unfortunately" look like their brothers. Mr Hardy is very "Ollie" when he even states about his wedding day "It was the happiest day of my life." The best in this film are the insults that the two "ladies" present to each other. Some people might not necessarily find the insults enjoyable, but they are definitely something you never hear in other Laurel & Hardy films. Not their best film, but despite the possible not-very-good-taste element, among the funniest "men as women" flicks ever.

bob the moo It has been a year since Laurel and Hardy married each other's sisters. They stay at home for a nice quiet meal, but the tensions between this close knit family bubble up as things go wrong during the meal.At the start of the film I felt that the duo dressed in drag would be a gimmick that wasn't used well, happily I was wrong and they use it well. It isn't just them mugging in girl's clothes, it is more a chance for them to play the same characters twice as, essentially, their sisters are them same as them! This works well and the dynamics between the two sisters are the same as between the two men.The comedy is given a fresh feel by this mix, which is good because it is lacking in other areas. The banter is not at it's best and the physical work is not as imaginative as at their best. In their dual roles both Laurel and Hardy are good – the badly dubbed women's voices take a little getting used to but don't detract too much.Overall this is an amusing short. Not their funniest short, but the twist of them playing each other's sisters helps freshen it all up a little bit.