Step Brothers

by DeAnn Welker July 22, 2008 10:15 AM
Step Brothers Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly -- so funny at the ESPY Awards -- once again play gigantic, disturbing man-children in Step Brothers. This time around they're a pair of loser guys who still live with their respective parents. And then their parents get married, so they end up sharing a room. They hate each other. Wait, that's not emphatic enough to describe it: They hate each other. So much so that, at various points, one of them throws the other off a sailboat in the ocean, and one digs a grave and attempts to bury the other. You know, that> level of hate.

The mom (Mary Steenburgen, who ... I'm sorry, is she even older than them?) naively thinks they're starting to like each other. Except that then she ends up being right when they realize they both have homoerotic feelings for John Stamos and subsequently become best friends. They go for job interviews together after dad (Richard Jenkins) threatens to kick them out of the house within a month if they don't find work. They turn their beds into bunk beds (not very successfully). They vandalize things. They get in a fight with kids -- like, a whole playground full. You know, the kind of things all adult friends/stepbrothers do together. At least in Will Ferrell's crazy la-la land.

If you are not yet sick of all of the man-children (Sandler, Myers, these guys) who we pay millions of dollars to entertain us, this movie is probably for you. I'm holding out for something better.

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