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- 2008
- R
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 38 m
- 2008
- R
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 38 m
Summary Brennan Huff is a sporadically employed thirty-nine-year-old who lives with his mother, Nancy. Dale Doback is 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 a...
Directed By: Adam McKay
Written By: Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Adam McKay
- 2008
- R
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 38 m
- 2008
- R
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 38 m
Step Brothers
51
8.1
Where to Watch
Summary Brennan Huff is a sporadically employed thirty-nine-year-old who lives with his mother, Nancy. Dale Doback is 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 a...
Directed By: Adam McKay
Written By: Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Adam McKay
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 33 Critic Reviews
51
39% Positive
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
45% Mixed
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
15% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 33 Critic Reviews
51
39% Positive
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
45% Mixed
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
15% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
There is too much funny here for a movie (even though it continues into the closing credits). Step Brothers should be a TV show.
Step Brothers is a Judd Apatow production and it's the closest that the Apatow factory has come to spitting out a dumb-and-dumber high-concept comedy.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 326 User Ratings
8.1
78% Positive
255 Ratings
255 Ratings
15% Mixed
50 Ratings
50 Ratings
6% Negative
21 Ratings
21 Ratings
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 326 User Ratings
8.1
78% Positive
255 Ratings
255 Ratings
15% Mixed
50 Ratings
50 Ratings
6% Negative
21 Ratings
21 Ratings
Another one of my favorites. Two grown men in there 40's. One living with his mom and the other living with his dad. They marry and become step brothers who fight like 10 year olds.
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THE BEST COMEDY MOVIE I HAVE WATCHED in the last 15 years. All of the jokes are hilarious, the actors are hilarious... The whole thing is hilarious. For the people who say there is no plot, that's that point! Just straight up jokes 101.
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Starting at infantile and regressing hysterically from there, Step Brothers flies on the comic chemistry of Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly.
Are Will Ferrell and director Adam McKay getting tired of their own shtick?
This is a loud, ugly, foul comedy whose shortcomings extends far into the supporting cast.
Step Brothers has comic fuel to burn, some of it unashamedly non sequitur and stupid-brilliant, but it still feels like a post-"Talladega" flameout.
There's a good subject for satire here, the extended adolescence of American kids. But satire presupposes maturity, or at least some perspective. The movie's calculation is that its subjects and audience share the same point of view. The results are truly ghastly.
Finding The Voice Together
Step Brothers
McKay's daunting task to bring two comic energies on screen that is of such high caliber with an eerie relationship to work on, is an average brawler sparked up by illuminating performances. A gullible world as such of McKay is his core strength, and he makes sure he uses it whenever the script gets damp, lucky for him, there is very little space to do so. The husbandry gags that the film relies upon for the most part of it, ought to have installed by Reilly and Ferrell and is thoroughly steered by them. From banal notions and hilarious illogical one liners, this comic drama, contradictory to popular beliefs, has witty sense of humor.
To pull off your typical dinner-conversation-gone-wrong case with intertwined complicated equations bubbled up by irrevocable actions shines a new light every time. The physical sequences are convincing and flat out hilarious spiced up by irregular yellings of their deepest darkest secrets that tickles you. McKay's clean trial of putting up these two hilarious personas on stand makes us see through and through of their nature which works immensely on dramatic bits no matter how little they are.
Ferrell as the shy Mama's boy, obliged but never to admit sort of stature is sculpted on screen by him where his flamboyancy on melting down and cheering up welcomes you to join this unfathomable emotions. Reilly, on the other hand, the impossible to live with guy, is where the antics move accordingly, and his reach to grasp Ferrell's schemes has merits of its own. These two twinkling stars are the heart of the film, if the camera seeks someone else, the energy wears off quickly. Step Brothers feels like real brothers for their constant bickering and petty fights, with all the crisp from surface to the core, this family is fun.
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Never was a fan of this movie. I read one user say it was, "Aggressively unfunny" and I'm one to agree. The cast give it there all and Will Ferrell and John C Reilly really go all out here but there is almost nothing funny about this movie. The only thing unforgettable about this film was just how forgettable it is.
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Watched this for the first time ever, and to be honest I don't see what everyone found so funny about it. I rarely laughed. The writing was very poor and so where the characters. It was crude but unfunny. One of Will Ferrell's worst films.
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Production Company
Columbia Pictures,
Relativity Media,
Apatow Productions,
Mosaic,
Gary Sanchez Productions
Release Date Jul 25, 2008
Duration 1 h 38 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline They grow up so fast.
Awards
Golden Trailer Awards
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
San Diego Film Critics Society Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
