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List Price: $19.94 | | Label: SONY PICTURES
Salesrank: 276
Released: December 2, 2008 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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.
Description of Step Brothers (Single-Disc Unrated Edition):
Crude, juvenile, and proud of it, Step Brothers stars Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly as two 40-year-old men, both living at home and leading the lives of 13-year-old boys, who are thrown together when their single parents (Mary Steenburgen, Parenthood, and Richard Jenkins, Six Feet Under) get married. Brennan (Ferrell) and Dale (Reilly) start out hating each other as only teenage boys can--but things get even worse for their long-suffering parents when they become best friends. Step Brothers gets most of its mileage from very lowbrow humor, but hidden among the farts and masturbation jokes is the suggestion that while these guys may be emotionally arrested, so are Brennan's hotshot business executive brother (Adam Scott, Tell Me You Love Me) and his high-fiving frat-boy pals, just in a way that's condoned because it makes money. Also crucial is that Ferrell and Reilly capture adolescence in all its gruesome glory--the awkward insecurity but also the egomaniacal, arrogant self-centeredness. Mind you, this isn't the American version of The 400 Blows or anything--one of the movie's setpieces features Brennan tea-bagging Dale's drum set (and if you don't know what tea-bagging is... well, you will after seeing this movie). All in all, Step Brothers combines the adolescent humor of producer Judd Apatow (Superbad, Knocked Up) and the comic chemistry of Ferrell and Reilly (who previously costarred in Talladega Nights)--fans of either will find plenty to enjoy. --Bret Fetzer
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Step Brothers (Single-Disc Unrated Edition) Reviews:
Funny like falling face first into vomit.... 
2009-12-07 - Someone else's vomit, that is. Sad to see a talented guy like Reilly wasted in a septic tank like this. Ferrell I just don't get the appeal of. The guy never seems to be quite *there* in anything he does, especially this. It's like he's doing a (bad) impression of a comedian on American Idol.
HILARIOUS! 
2009-11-25 - THIS MOVIE IS HILARIOUS! WILL FARREL IS ONE OF THE FUNNIEST ACTORS BY FAR! WILL AND JOHN ARE THE GREATEST COMEDY TAG TEAM EVER! A DEFINATE MUST SEE.
Hilarious
2009-11-19 - Let me start off by saying this is not an intelligent comedy, nor is it completely slapstick and absurd. It has just the right balance of over the top and clever humor. If you're a fan of Will Ferel then I have to recommend this movie. If you hate his comedies then I'm sure this movie isn't for you. If you had a brother or sister live at home until they were 30 then I'm sure you can relate to this film in some way; I know that I can. Definitely worth picking up
What I expected. 
2009-11-19 - This movie is what I expected for a movie staring Will Ferrell. I thought it was pretty funny. FYI: I did have 4 beers during the movie, so that may have helped.
For a bluray disc, both the sound and the picture were below average. I had to turn the volume way up on my receiver, and the picture was grainy at some points... I would rent this before I buy it.
Each time I watch, it gets funnier and funnier
2009-11-15 - I love this movie. Which is ironic, because when I first watched it, I did not like it. Now, it is one of my favorites. It is a light comedy, that pokes fun at the way that children stereotypically act but magnified by 27 years.
John C. Reilly and Will Ferrell do a great job in the comedy that each time I watch it, I notice new jokes and innuendos. Highly recommend if you are looking for a good laugh!
