
Brennan Huff and Dale Doback are both about 40 when Brennan's mom and Dale's dad marry. The sons still live with the parents so they must now share a room. Initial antipathy threatens the household's peace and the parents' relationship. Dad lays down the law: both slackers have a month to find a job. Out of the job search and their love of music comes a pact that leads to friendship but more domestic disarray compounded by the boys' sleepwalking. Hovering nearby are Brennan's... (Full plot summary below)
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Brennan Huff and Dale Doback are both about 40 when Brennan's mom and Dale's dad marry. The sons still live with the parents so they must now share a room. Initial antipathy threatens the household's peace and the parents' relationship. Dad lays down the law: both slackers have a month to find a job. Out of the job search and their love of music comes a pact that leads to friendship but more domestic disarray compounded by the boys' sleepwalking. Hovering nearby are Brennan's successful brother and his lonely wife: the brother wants to help sell his step-father's house, the wife wants Dale's attention, and the newlyweds want to retire and sail the seven seas. Can harmony come from the discord?
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| New York PostKyle SmithThere is too much funny here for a movie (even though it continues into the closing credits). Step Brothers should be a TV show. |
| Apollo GuideBrian WebsterOnly occasionally funny and about three times as long as the material justifies, it's boring and just a little bit embarrassing to sit through. |
| The Film YapNick RogersIt's nice to have Will Ferrell back, and not as, say, a sex-addicted curling champ from Liechtenstein with a testicle that hasn't descended and an appetite for Funyuns. A riotous movie that delivers on its promise thanks to expert improvisation and squirm |
| Flipside Movie EmporiumRob Vaux'Look, they're grown men! And they behave like children!' Lather. Rinse. Repeat. |
| TIME MagazineRichard CorlissFerrell, 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. |
| Philadelphia Daily NewsGary ThompsonAs Step Brother plays out, the expected comedy about perma-boys Ferrell and Reilly blends with a borderline horror-movie about the poor parents who are stuck with them. |
| EricDSnider.comEric D. SniderThis one's strictly for Ferrell, McKay, and Reilly -- and for those of us who really, really like them. |
| Arkansas Democrat-GazettePhilip Martin... a flat, desultory piece that relies too much on the presumed comic chemistry between its co-stars. |
| Christianity TodayJosh HurstIf you like Judd Apatow's bawdy R-rated comedies and Ferrell's inspired silliness, Step Brothers may be the most riotously funny film this side of Knocked Up |
| Washington TimesChristian TotoStep Brothers is like watching someone get kicked in the groin for 90 minutes, but it still makes us laugh. |