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Repli-Kate Teaches You How Genetic Engineering Really Works

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The 2001 movie Repli-Kate is so many things: a ripoff of Weird Science, a comedy of cloning, and the only movie I’ve ever seen where Eugene Levy yells “PENIS PENIS PENIS” really loudly, over and over, for reasons I can’t even remember. Here’s a great scene where one of the gene geeks uses his amazing high-throughput sequencer to create a clone of a hot chick from some blood drops on a CD-ROM. Even the genechip whiz kid Michael Eisen, whom I know for a fact has watched this movie, agrees that this is the most thrilling representation of genetic engineering ever captured on film.

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