Step Brothers (2008)

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Unremittingly juvenile and irredeemably funny.

October 18, 2008 Full Review

Tom Charity

CNN.com

Top Critic

Despite some obvious flaws, 'Step Brothers' remains a hugely enjoyable, well-constructed slice of lowbrow Saturday night entertainment, leaving Ferrell's position as the reigning king of US comedy secure for a while longer.

August 29, 2008 Full Review

Tom Huddlestone

Time Out

Top Critic

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.

July 28, 2008 | Comments (56)

Richard Roeper

Ebert & Roeper

Top Critic

Brideshead Revisited, it turns out, deserves a revisit.

July 25, 2008 Full Review | Comments (2)

Moira MacDonald

Seattle Times

Top Critic

There's a good subject for satire here, the extended adolescence of American kids. But satire presupposes maturity, or at least some perspective.

July 25, 2008 Full Review | Comment (1)

Joe Morgenstern

Wall Street Journal

Top Critic

The concept is inherently funny, but the plot grows thin and the laughs grow fewer once the premise is established.

July 25, 2008 Full Review

Claudia Puig

USA Today

Top Critic

Step Brothers is unashamedly dumb, unoriginal and downright offensively childish. But aren't these the very same reasons why people like these movies?

October 14, 2012 Full Review

Ali Gray

TheShiznit.co.uk

McKay and co. manage to pull off a strangely heart-warming finale.

July 14, 2011 Full Review

Stella Papamichael

Digital Spy

Foul-mouthed Ferrell comedy isn't very funny. No kids.

December 19, 2010 Full Review | Comments (6)

James Rocchi

Common Sense Media

You know you're in trouble when the cleverest parts of your movie are the ironic T-shirts, worn unironically ... (but) a bonus is deserved by the person who dug up the Pablo Cruise shirt.

December 24, 2009 Full Review

Matt Soergel

Florida Times-Union

Step Brothers is a rowdy, rambunctious, fitful, against-the-wall comedy. Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, and director writer Adam McKay heave comedy, like spaghetti, against the wall. About half sticks; the other half makes a real mess.

February 1, 2009 Full Review | Comments (2)

Tony Macklin

Fayetteville Free Weekly

... surpreendente que, em meio a tanta estupidez, o filme seja realmente engraçado e consiga criar dois personagens tão carismáticos, chegando a incluir, aqui e ali, momentos que, de uma forma sutil, se revelam tocantes.

January 31, 2009

Pablo Villaca

Cinema em Cena

It's one joke, already predictable, and it gets old fast.

January 19, 2009 Full Review | Comments (4)

Jeffrey Chen

Window to the Movies

...flat-out entertaining...

December 21, 2008 Full Review | Comment (1)

David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

The two-disc unrated Blu-ray version of Step Brothers comes with more extras than you'd ever expect (or ask for).

December 2, 2008 Full Review

Brian Webster

Apollo Guide

Only occasionally funny and about three times as long as the material justifies, it's boring and just a little bit embarrassing to sit through.

December 2, 2008 Full Review | Comments (12)

Brian Webster

Apollo Guide

Both of these basement dwellers should have been sent to their rooms . . . for 98 minutes.

November 29, 2008 Full Review | Comment (1)

James Plath

Movie Metropolis

• 1. Brennan Huff: Hey Derek, Sprechen ze dick!!!
  – Submitted by Joe N (10 days ago)
• 1. Dale Doback: I am warning you, if you touch my drums, I will stab you in the neck with a knife.
  – Submitted by Joe N (10 days ago)
• 1. Brennan Huff: Hey Derek, you know what's good for shoulder pain?
  2. Derek: What?
  3. Brennan Huff: If you lick my butt-hole.
  4. Dale Doback: Snap!
  – Submitted by Joe N (10 days ago)
• 1. Dale Doback: OK on the count of three name your favourite dinosaur, don't even think about it just do it. 1, 2, 3
  2. Brennan Huff: Philosoraptor.
  3. Dale Doback: Philosoraptor.
  4. Brennan Huff: Favourite non-pornographic magazine to masturbate to.
  5. Dale Doback: Good Housekeeping.
  6. Brennan Huff: Good Housekeeping.
  7. Brennan Huff: If you were a chick who's the one guy you'd sleep with?
  8. Dale Doback: John Stamos.
  9. Brennan Huff: John Stamos.
  – Submitted by Zanny T (4 months ago)
• 1. Dale Doback: Dad please shut up
  2. Brennan Huff: PLEASE SHUT UP!
  – Submitted by Zanny T (4 months ago)
• 1. Brennan Huff: I'm gonna fill, a pillow case, full of bars of soap, and beat the shit out of you!
  – Submitted by Toby F (5 months ago)

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