![]() ODD COUPLE - TWINS, produced and directed by Ivan Reitman written by William Davies, William Osborne, Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod director of photography, Andrzej Bartkowiak edited by Sheldon Kahn and Donn Cambern music by Georges Delerue production designer, James D. ''Twins,'' which has been rated PG (''Parental Guidance Suggested''), contains some mildly vulgar language. It's instantly disposable but it won't quickly disappear. ''Twins,'' which opens today at the National and other theaters, is the sort of movie that seems to be made of Styrofoam. DeVito's teaching his co-star how to waltz. Schwarzenegger's losing his virginity and, in one scene, with Mr. The film is the latest in the list of sloppy comic extravaganzas directed by Ivan Reitman, the auteur who earlier brought us ''Meatballs,'' ''Stripes,'' ''Legal Eagles'' and ''Ghostbusters.'' The direction is no less lame than the screenplay, which has to do with the brothers' search for their parents, with industrial espionage, with Mr. DeVito is balding, overweight and undergrown, he appears to be younger than his twin. It's one of the oddities of ''Twins'' that though Mr. It's something else to play a naif, which is as far out of his range as ''Henry V.'' He's also beginning to look physically reconstituted. Schwarzenegger's chief asset has been a willingness to send up what is taken to be the body builder's arrogance and self-assurance. While running down the street to escape an irate husband, he uses an electric razor to take off his 5 o'clock shadow. Kicked out of the orphanage at age 14 after getting a nun into trouble, Vincent is a womanizing con artist, car thief and fast-talker. DeVito), self-described as ''genetic trash,'' is Julius's opposite. He is also - hold on to your sides - a virgin! Schwarzenegger), raised on an idyllic desert island, is a perfect specimen of a man, a genius, pure in body as well as spirit. ![]() The gimmick is this: having been separated at birth, the brothers finally meet 35 years later in Los Angeles. To the extent that ''Twins'' is carried by anybody, it is carried by Mr. Universe and pint-sized Danny DeVito play twins, the result of a genetic experiment that went awry. ![]() In his new film, ''Twins,'' which is supposed to be funny, the former Mr. The reports that Arnold Schwarzenegger has a gift for comedy, based on isolated double-entendres he has delivered in such films as ''Red Heat'' and ''The Terminator,'' turn out to have been premature. ![]()
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