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Last night I sat down to watch Step Brothers after being told by a friend, who has a similar sense of humour to me, that it was pretty funny and worth a watch.
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Brennan (Will Ferrell) and Dale (John C Reilly) are two 40 year old who still live ... Read review
From the guys that brought you Talladega Nights, Knocked Up and Superbad, box office ... more
superstar Will Ferrell re-teams with his Talladega Nights co-star John C. Reilly in this hilarious film, as two spoiled guys who live with their respective single parents. Their folks fall in love and marry, making the guys competitive step brothers.
Last seen together in the box-office smash Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ... more
director Adam McKay brings Will Ferrell and John C Reilly back together again in Step Brothers!In Step Brothers Ferrell plays Brennan Huff, a sporadically employed thirty-nine-year-old who lives with his mother, Nancy (Mary Steenburgen). Reilly plays Dale Doback, a terminally unemployed forty-year-old who lives with his father, Robert (Richard Jenkins). 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.
Comedy - Director: Richard Boden, Mandie Fletcher, Martin Shardlow - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Hugh Laurie, Miranda Richardson, Stephen Fry, Brian Blessed, Tim McInnerny, Tony Robinson, Rowan Atkinson
Production Year: 2004 - Comedy - Director: John Hay - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jimi Mistry, Kate Miles, Dougray Scott
Comedy - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring: Tessa Peake-Jones, Buster Merryfield, David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst
Advantages: Over fairly quickly Disadvantages: Just not very good...
...I sat down to watch Step Brothers after being told by a friend, who has a similar sense of humour to me, that it was pretty funny and worth a watch.
Story
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Brennan (Will Ferrell) and Dale (John C Reilly) are two 40 year old who still live at home with their parents. Dale's dad and Dale have been living together Dales' whole life, Dale doesn't work and loves the lifestyle of being able to do what he wants ... ...share and get along as step brothers. Initially they hate each other and want nothing more than to have their old lives back. Soon enough though, they discover they have lots in common and become best friends. Everything seems to be going well until the boys smash up Dale's dad's boat thus ruining any chance of the parents retiring early as they planned. This leads to the boys being left to fend of themselves, having to get jobs and grow up. Can ... more
***Film Only Review***
Last night I sat down to watch Step Brothers after being told by a friend, who has a similar sense of humour to me, that it was pretty funny and worth a watch.
Story -------
Brennan (Will Ferrell) and Dale (John C Reilly) are two 40 year old who still live at home with their parents. Dale's dad and Dale have been living together Dales' whole life, Dale doesn't work and loves the lifestyle of being able to do what he wants when he wants, especially jamming on his drum kit.
Brennan is a slightly more sensitive character having been raised by his mother his whole life and likes still being looked after even though he is middle aged.
When Dale and Brennan's parents hook up and get married, both of the boys (I say boys, meaning men!) have to learn to share and get along as step brothers. Initially they hate each other and want nothing more than to have their old lives back. Soon enough though, they discover they have lots in common and become best friends. Everything seems to be going well until the boys smash up Dale's dad's boat thus ruining any chance of the parents retiring early as they planned. This leads to the boys being left to fend of themselves, having to get jobs and grow up. Can they do it? Or will they even want to.
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To be perfectly honest, I was not overly impressed with this film. It was amusing and I did laugh at a few places, but it wasn't really laughing because it was funny, it was more laughing because it was strange. The concept of two 40 year old men living together, and acting like children is what this film is supposed to be mostly about and as such supposed to be funny. I found it more that the actors did such a good job of acting like children, that it might as well have been children and the story wasn't funny enough to carry this through.
When I say the actors did such a good job, I also do not necessarily mean this in a positive way. They are over hyper stereotypes of children, all to be part of the humour obviously, seeing a grown man want to make more room to play activities is mildly amusing) but it just wasn't a strong performance. There were not enough witty lines or clever humour to keep me entertained.
I did enjoy it, but only in comparison to having nothing to do. The story was basic and predictable; the acting was a little cringe worthy in places too. Seeing grown men pretend to sleep walk and through stuff around isn't exactly Oscar winning material, or really that interesting.
I suppose overall I just found the whole concept a little dull. It was a little too silly and tried to add little romantic sub plots to create more naive moments for the 2 leads to play up to.
All in all just a little disappointing.
The films runs time is 98 Minutes. It didn't drag and actually felt quite short.
I'm giving it 3 stars, I would remove a star if you aren't fans of the leads or maybe add a star if you are more in the mood for nonsense than I was last night.
Advantages: Very funny, daft and stupid! Great acting and good story Disadvantages: None from me or hubby
...sees Brennan and Dale becoming step brothers. The men don’t like the idea of their parents getting married and instantly dislike each other. After Brennan and his Mom move in with their new family the trouble really starts. Dale is unwilling to give up his music room so they end up sharing a bedroom and when lying in bed they start threatening each other. Brennan gets his revenge by playing the drum kit which he has been told he is not allowed to ... ...Music Video
The Making of Step Brothers
Commentary with Will Ferrell, John C Reilly, Adam McKay, special guest star NBA’s Baron Davis and Scored by Jon Brion
The Music of Step Brothers
I have not watched any of these features so cannot give comment on them as they just have no appeal to me. The running time of this film is 1 hour and 34 minutes which I found to be a great length and was not loosing interest at any point. The certificate is a ...
sewbizzie 03.06.2009
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...local video shop I spotted Step brothers starring Will Ferrell and decided to give it a try. Cast. ***** Will Ferrell-Brennan Huff. John Reilly-Dale Doback. Mary Steenburgen-Nancy Huff. Richard Jenkins- Dr Robert Doback. Adam Scott- Derek Huff. Kathryn Hahn- Alice Huff. The film runs for 98 minutes and is a certificate 15. The film is directed by Adam Mc Kay The plot. ********** Nancy Hoff and Dr Dale Doback meet and fall in love. They soon decide ... ...As time goes on the step brothers become close as they realize how much they have in common. They both sleep walk at night, both share childish games and neither has ever grown up. Into the mix comes Derek and his wife, the obnoxious younger brother of Brennan. Derek works as an estate agent and is given the task of selling the family home. There are several hilarious scenes when the brothers try to sabotage any sale! His wife Alice decides she is ...
anwar 19.08.2009
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Advantages: Absurd, sweet, consistentally hilarious. Disadvantages: Not quite up to the standard of, say, Anchorman.
Director Adam McKay's third feature length collaboration with Will Ferrell falls some way short of their previous efforts, Anchorman and Talladega Nights, but it's still a joy to be in the company of, and considerably better than, say, Ferrell's Semi-Pro of the previous year.
The film reunites Ferrell and Talladega Nights co-star John C. Reilly to tell the tale of two unemployed men who still live with their parents and are thus forced into what ... ...to meet, fall in love and get married.
The film very much runs along the lines of similar kids-who-hate-each-other-but-come-to-love-one-anot her-in-the-end pictures, the joke being, of course, that Reilly and Ferrell are quite clearly grown men. This central gag is milked for all its worth, and the pair's antics - running the gamut from the gleefully absurd to the psychotic - are frequently hilarious.
What Stepbrothers brings to the fore is the ...
DavidJay 03.11.2008
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...C Reilly play the two step brothers Brennan and Dale and they really are very good in the role. They completely suit the type of actor needed for this role in the way they pull off the actions and the way in which they come across as still being like young children. The roles of the parents are played by Mary Steenburgen and Richard Jenkins of which I would say was again a good choice. They do well at showing how they try to make it work having their ... ...other actors that stood out for me were Kathryn Hann Adam Scott who played the roles of Brennan's brother Derek and sister in law Alice. There is a scene involving them and their two children Tiffany and Tommy, played by Elizabeth Yozan and Lurie Poston all singing in the car which is highly amusing and they managed to pull off this scene very well with the singing and the way they all acted at the same time!
I personally thought the cast did very ...
peteandcesca 11.09.2008
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Advantages: Hilarious comedy with great actors Disadvantages: when it finishes
A Hilarious comedy, directed by Adam McKay, who also wrote this screen play in partnership with Will Ferrell.
=== Cast ===
Will Ferrell & John C. Reilly play Brennan Huff and Dale Doback. Also includes Mary Steenburgen & Richard Jenkins, who play an excellent role as parents. All cast memebers have to be commended for thier efforts at keeping straight faces at hilarious moments - total professionals!
=== Storyline ===
Brennan and Dale are both ... ...single parent family. Unfortunatly for them , their parents meet and get married, forcing the men to live together and share a room and their parents! Their immaturity and stupidity provides excellent entertainment throughout the movie. The boys immediatly hate each other, however their relationship takes an unexpected turn when Dale stands up to Brennans brother. To the horror of the rest of the family, the boys design an entertainment company - ...
Glitter232 18.05.2009
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The fantastic foursome behind TALLADEGA NIGHTS – THE BALLAD OF RICKY BOBBY--Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Judd Apatow, and Adam McKay--reunite for this comedy about two grown men who become step brothers. Though the pair of men (Ferrell and Reilly) are over the hill, they still aren't out of their parents' houses, and they have to learn to get along when their respective mother and father get married.
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Commentary with filmmakers and cast , Deleted scenes, BOATS 'N HOES music video, Featurettes, Bonus digital copy, Commentary with filmmakers and cast , BOATS 'N HOES music video, Featurettes, Commentary with filmmakers and cast , BOATS 'N HOES music video , Featuretttes
Ferrell, the Hollywood star most notorious for going naked in his movies, shows off only his belly, and that for a teasing second. For most of the rest of the time, you'll be reveling in, or enduring, one more exhibition of grown men playing children (Time Magazine, 22/08/2008)
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While nearly all Will Ferrell's films are enjoyable on some level, they tend to fire on all cylinders when Adam McKay is involved. McKay co-wrote and directed ANCHORMAN: THE LEGEND OF RON BURGUNDY and TALLADEGA NIGHTS: THE BALLAD OF RICKY BOBBY, two of Ferrell's most popular and consummately hilarious films. McKay reteamed with not only Ferrell for STEP BROTHERS, but also Ferrell's co-star in TALLADEGA NIGHTS, John C. Reilly, who has steadily proven himself to be one of Hollywood's most versatile actors.
The plot is about as simple as they come: Brennan Huff (Ferrell) and Dale Doback (Reilly) are deadbeat man-children thrown together when the single parents with whom they live marry. The two initially despise one another, but become fast friends over a shared love of ninjas, COPS, porn magazines, and the comforts of living in the fantasy world of a prolonged adolescence. What makes STEPBROTHERS so much fun, however, has nothing to do with story or script; rather, it's McKay's foresight to step back and let Ferrell and Reilly run wild. The duo kick and punch, fart and burp, laugh and cry, yet somehow elevate such banalities to a level of grotesque poetry, hitting upon what feels like an entirely new comedic language. When the pair acts like children, they are not presenting themselves as immature adults, but are literally acting like children, meticulously duplicating everything from the fears and concerns to the speech patterns and awkward physicality of children. It sounds simple enough, but it requires a dexterity and sense of timing and delivery that is actually quite amazing.
