Step Brothers is a one-joke movie. Fortunately, it’s a funny joke.
Will Ferrell and John
C. Reilly play 40-ish men who never really matured past the age of, oh,
13. They live at home and act like
children. When their parents meet,
marry, and move in together, they have to learn to get along.
You could build a
funny movie about spoiled kids becoming brothers with child actors, but the
hook here is watching schlubby, middle-aged guys exhibit these behaviors. A couple of kids climbing into a
treehouse to hang out and gripe about their goody-two-shoes sibling could be
amusing, but watching grown men do it is downright hilarious.
Is it shallow? Yeah. Is it formulaic?
Yeah. Is it funny? Well, yeah. Go figure.
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