Repli-Kate (2002)

User Rating:

5.7/10   

Director:

Frank Longo

Writers:

Stuart Gibbs (screenplay)
Stuart Gibbs (story)

Release Date:

1 January 2002 (Iceland)

Genre:

Comedy | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

Every guy on campus wants a copy of Kate.

Plot:

A scientist and his sidekick accidentally clone a journalist and decide to turn the mistake into Repli-Kate, their idea of the perfect woman, who loves, beer, football, and frat parties.

Plot Keywords:

Perfect Woman | Clone | Experiment | Journalist | Female Nudity

Cast

Ali Landry	...	Kate / Repli-Kate
James Roday	...	Max
Desmond Askew	...	Henry
Eugene Levy	...	Jonas Fromer / Repli-Jonas
Todd Robert Anderson	...	Felix
Ryan Alosio	...	Derek Waters
Kurt Fuller	...	President Chumley
Aimee Allen	...	Wendy
Amandah Reyne	...	Lili
Melissa Greenspan	...	Brandi
Justin Shilton	...	Freshman
Ned Brower	...	Stoner
Kent Davis	...	E.R. Doctor
Emilio Borelli	...	Giovanni Bellini
David Clark	...	Bartender

Also Known As:

National Lampoon's Repli-Kate (USA) (complete title)
Replikate (USA) (alternative spelling)
Dupli-Kate (Canada: French title) [fr]
Repli-Kate (Spain) [es]
Une fille de rêve (France) (TV title) [fr]

MPAA:

Rated R for sexual content and language.

Runtime:

96 min | Argentina:121 min | Spain:91 min

Country:

Germany | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Malaysia:18SX | Iceland:12 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Germany:12 | Philippines:PG-13 | Spain:18 | UK:15 | USA:R

Company:

Helkon Media AG

Quotes:

Henry: [disappointed at Max] Two identical women and you fall for the one that won't blow you in a bar.

Movie Connections:

Features The House of the Dead (1998) (VG)

A great movie....for the right type of person

If you're the type of guy who watches "The Man Show" and professional wrestling on TV and reads magazines like "FHM" or "Maxim", then by this movie immediately. You'll love this film. This movie is sort of an updated version of "Weird Science" for the guys who were the right age to love that movie when it came out in the 80s.

Just like "Weird Science", there's the nice guy and his somewhat funny and somewhat annoying friend. Instead of being kids in high school they now work in a lab at a University (I think they filmed it at UCLA), instead of parents they have a controlling boss, and instead of a mean older brother they have something far much worse. They don't create a woman from a Barbie doll this time, they clone a real woman. So, they have the original woman to deal with.

The girl is updated too. The guy and his friend mold the clone into the ultimate man in a woman's body. She loves drinking beer and watching sports. The type of guys I mentioned at the beginning of this review would do anything to be dating a girl like this.

However, for everyone else, the movie does have some nice moments. Some of the actors give funny performances including Desmon Askew and (the always great) Eugene Levy. Ali Landry does a very good job in both her roles (playing the real girl and the clone). Also, the special effects for the scenes where the real girl meets her clone are fairly well done.

Like I said, this movie is made for a certain type of man, but there are a few things in it that would appeal to other types of people.