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The 2 brothers named Jim are hilarious drunks. Plus there's the whole mistaken Identity thing going on, with evil twins, except that neither one of them is really the good twin.

They're both fairly evil. It's a lighthearted silly comedy, but I still think it's great.

If you didn't like this movie...you didn't get it. That's Okay, most people don't...Too Bad. It has a memorable quality even if you didn't like it, obviously. It did it's job just giving a point of comparison that you remember. Try singing "Hey baby, que paso?" and people know where it's from. Try it on home video with your favorite whatever and find your inner child. It's a "What you did over the summer?" flick, after all.

I'm glad I didn't waste my money on this movie. I borrowed it from my cousin. 2 adults who are jealous of each other and don't know anything about positive conflict resolution. If I had a 13-15 year old child, I wouldn't even let him/her watch this movie. Lots of violence and jealousy in this movie. Cruelty to a cute dog. I didn't find this movie funny or entertaining. It was a waste of my time to watch this movie. There are also 2 stupid guys who get drunk everyday and don't know the difference between alive and dead. I gave it a 1/10

It's silly, it's completely silly. Some people must have thought this was funny and I can remember I did watch it entirely in the nineties as well, but watching it now again, it hasnt aged well, to put it politely.

I started watching it (again) for Matthew Broderick's appearance, but he simply aint suited for this kind of slapstick, silly comedies. Thankfully the movie only last 1 hour and 15 minutes...

My review was written in September 1992 after a screening in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood.

Matthew Broderick sinks with the shiip in "Out on a Limb", a moronic comedy that leads the pack as the worst film of the year so far.

In a very unwise career choice, Broderick stars in what's usually the Michael J. Fox role: a fish out-of-water yuppie. Planning to finalize a $140,000,000 company takeover over the weekend, he's drawn instead to the small California town of Buzzsaw to rescue his young sister Marci (Courtney Peldon) from the clutches of a mad villain played by Jeffrey Jones.

Evidently rewritten and reshot repeatedly, the film makes no sense and develops not an iota of credibility. It's crudely framed as a "How I spent my summer vacation" tall tale told in school by Peldon, despite the fact that she's not present for 99% of the incidents she narrates in such great detail.

The picture's one clever gag is not original: two young classmates of Peldon's are made up as a junior parody of Siskel & Ebert to periodically criticize her far-fetched story. In the real world, "Out on a Limb" was not screened for critics.

In the release version, the leading lady played by Heidi Kling is never given a character. Made up with red curly hair like a refugee from a 15 years-after reunion of stage "Annies", Kling enters the film on the run, kidnaps and torments Broderick for several reels and finally wins him romantically with no explanation of who she is or why she's running.

Intervening segments consist of well-staged but pointless car chases and stunts from second unit director Glenn Randall Junior, as well as a boring story of Jones playing demented twin brothers who make John Lithgow in "Raising Cain" seem like a nice guy. One twin is the mayor of Buzzsaw, who happens to be Broderick and Peldon's stepdad. The other is just out of prison after a 15-year-stretch with revenge on his mind.

The screenwriters are twins Joshua and Daniel Goldin, who besides creating the Jones twins overemphasize a tedious running gag involving imbecilic, inbred hick brothers, both named Jim, whose slapstick is crucial to keeping the pot boiling.

The plot complications include that old wheeze of a corpse mistaken for a still-living drunk and Broderick's missing wallet containing a vital phone number.

Byh the time "Limb" (originally titled "Welcome to Buzzsaw") concludes with Peldon's most cynical classmates applauding her story, the unconvincing finish to that tale has Broderick suddenly chucking his millionaire financial career to settle down with Kling and run for mayor of Buzzsaw. It's as phony as what passed for entertainment in the preceding 75 minutes.

Broderick struggles to keep his poise in this shambles, and he's not aided by being saddled with an extended nude scene hitchhiking after Kling steals his BMW and clothing. Kling deserves another shot with some material to work with, while young Peldon proves to be a precocious scene stealer.

Director Francis Veber, known for his French farces, is out of luck here. Tech credits are adequate but except for the stunts give no indication of a big-budget film.