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List Price: $19.94 | | Label: SONY PICTURES
Salesrank: 531
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- But not for the prude's or younglings 
2009-10-09 - I found this film incredibly entertaining and found myself laughing hysterically numerous times.
GOOD
-Dry humor
-Slapstick humor
-Ironic humor
-Shock humor
Bad
-Cliche' humor
-Predictability
-The sleepwalking scene was pretty terrible
WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY! 
2009-10-05 - Adult flim makers are the LOWEST OF THE LOW!
The person who came with the unrated section is very EVIL!
Flims like Step Brothers, are posion to our country!
Wouldn't life be great, if unrated creators died!
I wish companies would burn the unrated movies!
Inexcusable and mindless.
2009-09-15 - I'm an older brother of two younger sisters who outnumber me in life. That's what bothers me most about this movie and the fact that I've always wanted a little brother. I use to try to get someone from school to be my little brother. Sometimes it does work but not as much as I would obviously wish but either way it does happen from time to time. If I had a little brother or was in a big brother program, I would be very happy. I would be more happier with that than two younger sisters.
I would have to admit that there were some movies where characters do feel like family to one another, like "Up" or "Fred Claus." It just so happens that relationships like Carl Fredrickson as a grandson to Russell or finding the true meaning of Santa's Clause's older brother. I mean, it does work on very occasions and it works very well.
However with "Step Brothers," there's nothing fun about that. It's just about two people dating and their 40 year old sons won't get out of the house. They build up terrible relationships that just doesn't do anything. Anything that suits upon level. It's just ridiculous and childish. That's all.
What bothered me the most about this movie was that Seth Rogen who is like the funniest actor in most comedies actually turns out to take a crappy short role. And all of this is thanks to how stupid Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly are. I mean, Ferrell, Reilly...GROW UP! YOU'RE NOT IN KINDERGARTEN. Other than that, I don't mind dysfunctional family humor, like "Little Miss Sunshine" (even though there's a brother/sister relationship), but this is the worst idea for family dysfunction. In fact, I want my 2 hours back of this ridiculous piece of [...].
"Step Brothers" is not a movie I would want to see. So there!
Awful...
2009-09-08 - Sound quaity was terrible. With the tv turned all the way up you still couldn't hear it.
"Hulk Hands!" 
2009-09-01 - ah where to begin? this is easily the best humor will Ferrell has ever done (in my humble opinion)along with the great work of john c Riley of course, who BTW has excellent chemistry with will, dales brother is pretty much the antagonist in this film and every time you see em' you want to hit em' cannot remember the guys name but does a good job at playing an as------! ahem moving on, so yeah it's a gut buster of a film the bathroom scene was priceless(with the likable nympho) but some of the greatest scenes are the deleted ones, or "extras" such as Hulk Hands which i found Hysterical, i mean just the idea that two grown 40 year old guys get excited over x-mas presents and Hulk hands is enough to watch the scene over and over again. The funniest movie of 2008 (and for a long time) no contest.
