Sporadically funny, and ridiculous enough to keep some fans happy, this silly comedy is like a Saturday Night Live sketch stretched far beyond the breaking point
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08/17/08
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Step Brothers (2008)
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Reviews Counted: 135 Fresh: 68 Rotten:67 Average Rating: 5.4/10
Consensus:
The relentless immaturity of the humor is not a total handicap for this film, which features the consistently well-matched talents of Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly.
Rated: R [See Full Rating]
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Theatrical Release: Jul 25, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $90,695,938
Synopsis: While nearly all Will Ferrell's films are enjoyable on some level, they tend to fire on all cylinders when Adam McKay is involved. McKay co-wrote and directed ANCHORMAN: THE LEGEND OF RON BURGUNDY and TALLADEGA NIGHTS: THE BALLAD OF RICKY BOBBY, two of Ferrell's most popular and consummately... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Mary Steenburgen, Richard Jenkins, Adam Scott
Reviews
Kudos here to both leads, who manage to channel their inner child to their adult personalities.
08/08/08
This should represent the nadir of Ferrell's efforts, but the truth is that he's done worse.
08/01/08
It's definitely not highbrow humor. But we don't expect ponderous meaning or dovetailed subjectivity from an Apatow film, now do we?
08/01/08
Stepbrothers is the best comedy of the year and that's not saying much.
07/31/08
The aggravation created by so much stupidity on parade, with so few honest laughs, had me squirming in my seat.
07/31/08
Possesses one and only one gag: watching middle-aged men acting like 12-year-olds with exceedingly dirty vocabularies...Easily the least-enjoyable of all the Ferrell vehicles.
07/30/08
Despite being perhaps McKay and Ferrell's weakest film yet, it's still a McKay/Ferrell film, and that's enough.
07/30/08
Step Brothers signals another era of American comedy: It’s the sort of thing that will assist future scholars in crafting histories of 21st-century stupidity.
07/30/08
While the movie in general is sloppy and unwieldy, the gags [Ferrell] pulls off with co-star John C. Reilly deliver lots of big laughs.
07/30/08
Heightened suspicions of the decline of civilization became inescapable this past Friday when Adam McKay's Step Brothers oozed its way into theaters.
07/30/08
This isn't your Adam Sandler watered down comedy. It's raunchy, vulgar, rude, mean-spirited, and funny as hell.
07/29/08
You do get to see Ferrell's ball sack, which might be a draw for some, but otherwise it's a mess. Ferrell and Reilly bicker and it should be better.
07/29/08
When a 23-year-old male Anchorman fan would rather see a romance with Jenkins and Steenburgen than an R-rated comedy with Ferrell, you know something went horrible wrong.
07/28/08
It's nice to have Will Ferrell back, and not as, say, a sex-addicted curling champ from Liechtenstein with a testicle that hasn't descended and an appetite for Funyuns. A riotous movie that delivers on its promise thanks to expert improvisation and squirm
07/28/08
Don’t watch it on an airplane, don’t check it out on cable, don’t walk past the bargain basement bin where it’s been sold.
07/28/08
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[S]atirizes the trend that's all the rage now: men wallowing in adolescence through their 30s... [H]alf the other movies we've been assaulted with over the last few years have actually seemed to celebrate that horror...
07/28/08
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