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Step Brothers (2008)

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Reviews Counted:1729

Fresh:1257

Rotten:472

Average Rating:6.6/10

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] for crude and sexual content, and pervasive language.

Runtime: 3 hrs 23 mins

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release:Jul 25, 2008 Wide

Box Office: $100,468,793

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... 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 hilarious films. McKay reteamed with not only Ferrell for STEP BROTHERS, but also Ferrell's co-star in TALLADEGA NIGHTS, John C. Reilly (who has steadily proven himself to be one of Hollywood's most versatile actors); and though STEP BROTHERS may be the most threadbare of the three movies on which the duo have collaborated, it's arguably their best. The plot is about as simple as they come: Brennan Huff (Ferrell) and Dale Doback (Reilly) are deadbeat man-children thrown together when the single parents with whom they live marry. The two initially despise one another, but become fast friends over a shared love of ninjas, COPS, porno mags, and the comforts of living in the fantasy world of a prolonged adolescence. What makes STEPBROTHERS so much fun, however, has nothing to do with story or script; rather, it's McKay's foresight to step back and let Ferrell and Reilly run wild. The duo kick and punch, fart and burp, laugh and cry, yet somehow elevate such banalities to a level of grotesque poetry, hitting upon what feels like an entirely new comedic language. When the pair act like children, they are not presenting themselves as immature adults, but are literally acting like children, meticulously duplicating everything from the fears and concerns to the speech patterns and awkward physicality of children. It sounds simple enough, but it requires a dexterity and sense of timing and delivery that is actually quite amazing. In the end, STEP BROTHERS is really nothing more than an absurd comedy; then again, isn't that what they called WAITING FOR GODOT? [More]

Starring: Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Adam Scott, Mary Steenburgen

Starring: Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Adam Scott, Mary Steenburgen, Kathryn Hahn, Richard Jenkins, Ken Jeong

Director: Adam McKay

Director: Adam McKay
Screenwriter: Will Ferrell, Adam McKay
Story: Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, John C. Reilly
Producer: Jimmy Miller, Judd Apatow
Composer: Jon Brion
Studio: Sony Pictures Entertainment

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  • 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.
  • Brennan (Will Ferrell) et Dale (John C. Reilly), deux fainéants d'âge moyen, sont contraints de vivre sous le même toit le jour où leurs parents se marient. Mais les singeries et les chicanes puériles des demi-frères au sujet de la télé ou d'objets personnels ont rapidement des effets néfastes sur le mariage, alors les deux pitres imaginent un plan farfelu pour réunir le couple.
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