Hi all, I'm also on Dooyoo under the same name. will try to return rates always x
Hi all, I'm also on Dooyoo under the same name. will try to return rates always x
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***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.
My opinion --------------
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.
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
I just ordered that movie ..... hmmm....i'm thinking it may turn out to be a waste of money, now ! though I do loie sill movies and I love will ferrell.
kevin121 04.04.2009 18:33
Nicely reviewed, but it sounds mighty weird to me.
GJRendall 16.03.2009 17:43
I watched this the other day. It was too wierd for me to enjoy.
Mar 13th, 2009
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