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The Brothers Solomon (2007)

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Average Rating: 3.3/10
Reviews Counted: 72
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 61

Squandering its impressive cast with poorly-directed gags, The Brothers Solomon is a one-joke film stretched well beyond its limits.

15

Average Rating: 3.8/10
Critic Reviews: 20
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 17

Squandering its impressive cast with poorly-directed gags, The Brothers Solomon is a one-joke film stretched well beyond its limits.

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Average Rating: 2.6/5
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Movie Info

Mr. Show alumnus Bob Odenkirk directed -- and SNL vet Will Forte scripted -- this gleefully raunchy tale of two socially backward but kind-hearted adult brothers, Dean and John Solomon (Forte and Will Arnett), who had the misfortune to be home-schooled by their father at a remote Arctic outpost. Destined to be perpetually single, their moronic, klutzy attempts at meeting new women (such as popping the question on a first date in a crowded restaurant) always blow up in their face. Then, one day,

Unrated, 1 hr. 33 min.

Comedy

Will Forte

Dec 26, 2007

$0.9M

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All Critics (74) | Top Critics (20) | Fresh (11) | Rotten (63) | DVD (3)

The story makes no sense, and the two lead characters are repulsive, but I must confess I laughed immoderately at this clever piece of junk.

December 3, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
Chicago Reader
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Three gags miss for every one that hits.

September 22, 2007 Comment
New York Times
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I was so angry at everybody involved in the making of this film. It's just astonishing.

September 10, 2007 Comment
Ebert & Roeper
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It's a moderately funny premise in search of some real laughs.

September 7, 2007 Full Review Source: USA Today | Comment
USA Today
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Neither Odenkirk's limp direction nor SNL alumnus Will Forte's script -- not nearly clever enough to get away with its questionable gags about matters sexual and racial -- provides much by way of actual plot or comedy.

September 7, 2007 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment
Toronto Star
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It's hard to hate a movie that tries so valiantly to resurrect the career of Lee Majors. But even that noble task ultimately fails.

September 7, 2007 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
San Francisco Chronicle
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Goofy lowbrow comedy is too crude for kids.

July 10, 2008 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

mostly unfunny

April 24, 2008 Comment

Has too many dull spots to give it a hearty thumbs up, but if you like your humor a little left-of-center, it's odd charm might work for you.

February 27, 2008 Full Review Source: The Deadbolt | Comment
The Deadbolt

...benefits from the inclusion of several genuinely funny whacked-out bits of comedy...

December 11, 2007 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | Comment
Reel Film Reviews

Disappointing comedy that takes a single joke and attempts to stretch it over an entire movie, with predictably poor results.

November 3, 2007 Full Review Source: ViewLondon | Comment
ViewLondon

Odd-couple comedy that tries much too hard and, in other ways, not hard enough.

November 2, 2007 Full Review Source: Independent | Comment
Independent

A dismal gross-out comedy.

November 2, 2007 Full Review Source: Financial Times | Comment
Financial Times

Relentlessly bad taste.

November 2, 2007 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | Comment
Guardian [UK]

Oh, brother! Firing blanks in every direction, this tedious vehicle for two hard-to-like comedians is stillborn from the off.

November 2, 2007 Full Review Source: Film4 | Comment

Direction is undistinguished, and the editing leaves far too much room for laughs that never arrive.

November 2, 2007 Full Review Source: BBC | Comment

A series of musty gross-out gags ranging in sophistication from sperm bank hijinks to sloppy man-on-man kissing, Bob Odenkirk's cringemaker-with-a-heart is a ragged Xerox of Dumb And Dumber that seems incredibly creaky after the summer of Superbad.

November 2, 2007 Full Review Source: Total Film | Comment
Total Film

The only amusement here comes from counting the imaginary tumbleweeds that so frequently roll across the screen.

November 1, 2007 Full Review Source: Sky Movies | Comment
Sky Movies

Audiences will need an epidural to endure the excruciating pain of watching this geek-and-jerk combo stumble through three trimesters.

November 1, 2007 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | Comment
Empire Magazine

Imagines what might happen if Rod and Todd Flanders grew up and decided to have a surrogate child together.

October 30, 2007 Full Review Source: Flak Magazine | Comment
Flak Magazine

Indeed the exercise in barely-organized stupidity that it appears to be.

October 14, 2007 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | Comment
TheMovieReport.com

It can't be a coincidence that the movie's initials are 'B.S.'

October 10, 2007 Full Review Source: Metromix.com | Comment
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Audience Reviews for The Brothers Solomon

This is one of the stupidest movies I have ever seen. I sat through the entire film but there was never a time when I like it. The ending was the only relief of charm in the film. The dialogue is terrible, the comedy sucks, Will Arnett and Will Forte should think twice before doing anything like this again, and this

October 5, 2010
KJ Proulx

Super Reviewer

Stupid, but cute, all at the same time. I might watch again, but more than likely won't.

September 5, 2007
dreamfaeries

Super Reviewer

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