Our Idiot Brother Reviews
Kansas City Star
The comedic targets, such as ultracompetitive elementary schools and terrible stand-up comics, are overly familiar.
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| Original Score: 2/4
ABC Radio Brisbane
It has its moments but, for the most part, I found it to be flat and disappointing.
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| Original Score: B-
Top CriticDirector Jesse Peretz commits the unpardonable sin of wasting the considerable comedic talent of Paul Rudd.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Beliefnet
The actors have a lot of fun creating their characters but there is not one believable relationship between any of them, except Ned's with the hippie who replaced him.
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| Original Score: C
While the film does offer its share of zingy one-liners and entertaining character moments, the final result is a movie that can't decide if it wants to be snarkily sweet or mean and misanthropic.
The film gives permission for a genre already prone to solipsism to finally close in on itself entirely.
CinemaBlend.com
It's a shame to see Rudd given a role that lets him hit it out of the park in a movie that never comes close to matching him.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Lessons of Darkness
A pleasant-enough trifle that ensnares itself in the uneasy middle ground between indie drama and dumb-guy comedy.
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| Original Score: C+
sbs.com.au
Lugubrious, bumbling and sit-com predictable, Our Idiot Brother has a couple of good ideas, no style, an episodic structure and some charming incidental pleasures, not the least of which are the performances, which are good.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Patch
Wastes a cast of very talented comedic performers by giving them just about nothing funny to do, and sticking them in a plot in which every character is a moron, a moral monster or both.
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| Original Score: 1/5
ColeSmithey.com
Paul Rudd's hippie character Ned could shame Willie Nelson fans into disowning their musical hero.
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| Original Score: C-
There's a gap of logic and emotion that's hard to overcome.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
indieWIRE
The name and the premise of "Our Idiot Brother" would work better for a sitcom, or maybe several of them.
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| Original Score: C+
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
A genial sitcom-lite comedy that stumbles when it tries to make the clueless idiot brother into a wise man bringing life lessons and salvation to a dysfunctional family.
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| Original Score: C+
7M Pictures
The sometimes mediocre and rote script never falls too far in quality because of the charm of the cast.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Peretz has figured out how to make a happy commercial contraption with eccentric flavoring.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Our Idiot Brother comes off as a blueprint for a smart script no one really made.
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| Original Score: 2/4
This movie really doesn't think much of its hero.
