Step Brothers
HEADLINE: ** Numskull Rivalry **
Title: STEP BROTHERS
Quality: * * Acceptability: -3
SUBTITLES: None
WARNING CODES:
Language: LLL
Violence: VV
Sex: SS
Nudity: NNN
RATING: R
RELEASE: July 25, 2008
TIME: 100 minutes
STARRING: Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Mary Steenburgen, Richard Jenkins, Adam Scott, and Kathryn Hahn
DIRECTOR: Adam McKay
PRODUCERS: Jimmy Miller and Judd Apatow
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and David Householder
WRITER: Will Ferrell and Adam McKay
BASED ON THE NOVEL/PLAY BY: N/A
DISTRIBUTOR: Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures Entertainment
CONTENT: (PaPa, B, LLL, VV, SS, NNN, A, DD, MM) Strong, slightly mixed, pagan worldview with very light moral element about two middle-aged slackers who need to become mature and find a job they can do; at least 83 obscenities, six strong profanities, 16 light profanities, some vulgarities, and man passes gas in one scene; strong slapstick violence includes knocking someone out with a shovel, intense fighting, boat wrecked, sleepwalking men wreck kitchen and other household items, man tumbles down stairs and makes hole in wall, and man buried alive but he comes out of the intended grave through the dirt; depicted sex in one scene and other strong sexual references, including man's wife has affair with husband's single step brother; upper male nudity and graphic nudity when man rubs his private parts on another man's possession; alcohol use; no smoking but a reference to crystal meth; and, lying, step siblings fight, laziness, wrecking other people's possessions.
GENRE: Numskull Comedy
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Older teenagers and adults
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SUMMARY: STEP BROTHERS Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly as two older slackers who must bring their step-parents back together after their antics tear them apart. STEP BROTHERS is mostly an excuse to indulge in vulgar, infantile behavior between two foul-mouthed grown men.
IN BRIEF:
STEP BROTHERS is another in a recent spate of crude numskull, slacker, stoner comedies. It stars Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly as two older slackers, Brennan and Dale, who still live with their parents because they have trouble holding jobs. When their father and mother get married, the two become step brothers sharing the same room. Dale and Brennan don't get along at all, and keep disrupting the house. Then, they discover the things they have in common, especially their hatred for Brennan's younger brother Derek, an obnoxious over-achiever whom Dale punches in the face. Dale and Brennan decide to form their own entertainment company. When they wreck Dale's father's boat while making a rap video, their parents split apart. To get their parents back together, Dale and Brennan orchestrate an elaborate plan, but can they become mature enough to pull it off?
STEP BROTHERS is mostly an excuse to indulge in vulgar, infantile behavior between two foul-mouthed grown men. In that respect, except for the vulgarity and obscenities, the comedy recalls the slapstick tradition of early comic teams such as the Three Stooges and Laurel and Hardy.
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