Step Brothers (Single-Disc Unrated Edition)
Starring: Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Richard Jenkins, Mary Steenburgen, Ian RobertsDirector: Adam McKay
Studio: SONY PICTURES
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Format: Anamorphic, NTSC
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1
Running Time: 203 minutes
DVD Release: December 2nd 2008
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DVD Review
Brennan Huff, a sporadically employed thirty-nine-year-old who lives with his mother, Nancy. Dale Doback, a terminally unemployed forty-year-old who lives with his father, Robert. When Robert and Nancy marry and move in together, Brennan and Dale are forced to live with each other as step brothers. As their narcissism and downright aggressive laziness threaten to tear the family apart, these two middle-aged, immature, overgrown boys will orchestrate an insane, elaborate plan to bring their parents back together. To pull it off, they must form an unlikely bond that maybe, just maybe, will finally get them out of the house.
User Reviews
Stepbrothers - Rating: 5/5
This is a hilarious movie about two middle age men still acting like babies. Need I say more? This is worth watching over and over again.
Some good moments...but not enough - Rating: 3/5
3.5 stars
I find Ferrell occasionally hilarious (his Robert Goulet is beyond priceless), but let's face it, he's made a large sampling of B-grade comedies in the past decade. Step Brothers, while among the better of those offerings, is still merely decent for the most part.
Both Will and John are very funny at moments here, but it's (some) hit and (mostly) miss. Ferrell and Appatow and co. seem to have a few pat formulas and are milking them to death these days. They still enjoy using the f-word for shock value, and while I love a well-paced f-bomb there are more here than are needed, just as there are more truly adolescent jokes than needed. If the movie's for kids, keep the fart jokes etc and dump the swearing. If it's for adults, the opposite (though a good fart joke is also fun for adults...a good one, that is). But featuring both in great supply just makes movies like this feel too unfocused and haphazard. Yes, there are a bunch of laughs and yes, I really enjoyed parts of this film. But I wouldn't bother watching it again.
Ferrell can do a whole lot better than this, and I wish he would. But when you're making a hundred million dollars and more per flick by writing and producing the same old jokes, I guess it's hard to go for more. Too bad.
Funniest Movie Ever - Rating: 5/5
Buy this movie. It is hysterical - seriously funny. Really. If you do not think this movie is funny - you are not a funny person.
Pablo Cruise?! - Rating: 4/5
There have been alot of depictions of male arrested development notably Pee-Wee Herman and the Chris Elliott character on TV's "Get a Life". "Step Brothers" doesn't break any comic ground but the laugh quotient here is pretty high even if it tends towards the vulgar and infantile. Credit stars Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly for mining this material for all it's worth. Ferrell has a spotty track record on screen but when teamed with Reilly he seems to get inspired. Not classic stuff but great Summertime low-think entertainment.
Hilarious! - Rating: 5/5
This may be the funniest movie Wil Farrell has done. Several laugh out loud moments. Very funny.
