Step Brothers
9,402
Comedy
Two spoiled guys (Ferrell and Reilly) become competitive stepbrothers after their single parents get hitched.
Author | Review | ||
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United States | The Washington Post | "So childish it seems to arrive in diapers, and that's not bad; it's good" | POS |
United States | Boston Globe | "Step Brothers is crudely funny, which means that sometimes it's crudely hilarious and more often it's just crude." | NEU |
United States | Entertainment Weekly | "Step Brothers is a Judd Apatow production and it's the closest that the Apatow factory has come to spitting out a dumb-and-dumber high-concept comedy." | POS |
United Kingdom | Empire | "It's no Anchorman, but it's several steps in the right direction." | NEU |
United States | Chicago Tribune | "Stupid, predictable and fairly funny." | POS |
United States | Newsweek | "I don't want to sound like a party pooper but there's something depressing about the never-ending celebration of eternal adolescence in recent American comedies." | NEU |
United States | Rolling Stone | "Starting at infantile and regressing hysterically from there, Step Brothers flies on the comic chemistry of Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly" | POS |
United States | SFGATE | "Essentially a throwaway film" | NEG |
United States | Variety | "The film is funny at times but lapses into the reflexive vulgarity that seems to be the default mechanism of the Apatow machinery." | NEU |
United States | The Hollywood Reporter | "The only thing that can explain middle-aged men acting like 6-year-olds is mental retardation, and there's nothing funny about that" | NEG |
United States | USA Today | "America loves dysfunctional families, but haven't we seen enough middle-aged losers who haven't grown up?" | NEU |
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