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Twins is the story of identical siblings Julius (Arnold) and Vincent Benedict (Danny DeVito). They are the offspring of a botched government genetics experiment, and have been separated since birth. Funny things happen when the brothers are reunited at age 35. Julius is the perfect specimen of a man in body and soul, but he's also inexperienced. This innocent man-child, raised in a controlled environment on a tropical island, travels to Los Angeles to search for his brother, Vincent, who's a diminutive, obnoxious, small-time thief with neither brains nor brawn. Julius locates Vincent in jail. While the "perfect" brother is devoted to the notion of family loyalty, Vincent rcgards his twin merely as a dopey bodyguard.

After being joined by sexy sisters Linda (Chloe Webb) and Marnie (Kelly Preston), Julius and Victor hit the road. Julius hopes to locate their long-lost mother, while Vincent is eager to snag a big payoff from his latest scam. During the course of their adventure, the twins learn a valuable lesson about the importance of being- brothers. Julius helps steer Victor straight, while he himself learns to drink beer, romance Marnie, and use a microwave.

Twins is based on one of those irresistibly contrived premises that moviemakers like to call "high concept." Briskly directed by Ivan Reitman, the director of Ghostbusters, the film was promoted via a highly effective publicity campaign that pictured the two mismatched stars dressed identically and exuding the same jubilant bravado. The campaign's tag line was "Only their mother can tell them apart".

Although some critics saw Twins as a silly, one-joke effort, others were amused. Audiences certainly had a great time, pushing the picture's gross to a whopping $110 million, more than that of any of Schwarzenegger's previous films. The magnitude of this box-office success propelled his career into the stratosphere.

With this, his first overt foray into comedy, Arnold won new fans and became a superstar. David Ansen of Newsweek wrote, "He's endearingly, incongruously sweet. For the first time since Stay Hungry he's a recognizable member of our species". Similarly, Bob Strauss of Movieline praised Arnold's comic timing, adding, "he captures the character's built-in naiveté and never makes him seem stupid. Hard stuff". Almost every other critic noted the easy, goofy chemistry between the two stars, and the way in which the pair's comic scenes clicked. The wacky casting had paid off.

Arnold remarked, "I've learned some mechanical things from Danny, because he's done comedy for so long. It's been a very good learning experience. It was very exciting for me, because I've finally getting into the kind of movies I've always wanted to be in - movies that are not all muscle".