Synopsis
Brennan Huff and Dale Doback might be grown men. But that doesn't stop them from living at home and turning into jealous, competitive stepbrothers when their single parents marry. Brennan's constant competition with Dale strains his mom's marriage to Dale's dad, leaving everyone to wonder whether they'll ever see eye to eye.
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Cast
- Will FerrellBrennan Huff
- John C. ReillyDale Doback
- Mary SteenburgenNancy Huff
- Richard JenkinsDr. Robert Doback
- Adam ScottDerek
- Kathryn HahnAlice
- Andrea SavageDenise
- Lurie PostonTommy
- Elizabeth YozampTiffany
- Logan ManusChris Gardoki
Recommendations
- 80
Village Voice
Not to wax too serious here (since this is, after all, a movie in which two nearly middle-aged men beat each other over the heads with blunt instruments on their front lawn), but ticking away just beneath Step Brothers' freely associative surface is a fairly astute commentary on how we define such abstract concepts as "growing up" and "making something of yourself." - 80
Washington Post
So childish it seems to arrive in diapers, and that's not bad; it's good. - 75
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. - 75
Philadelphia Inquirer
While Ferrell and Reilly are great together, hatching harebrained schemes that have no basis in reality, part of the unexpected treat of Step Brothers is watching Jenkins and Steenburgen sink to such blithely immature levels of rude and crude comedy. - 75
Premiere
Step Brothers is a hard R, for good reason. While it's somewhat sweeter, if you will, than a typical Apatow flick, the ludicrous situations call for equally ludicrous behavior and statements. - 63
Chicago Tribune
Stupid, predictable and fairly funny. - 50
Newsweek
I don't want to sound like a party pooper (or deny that there is something wickedly funny about seeing these middle-age adolescents beating the crap out of a playground full of little bullying kids) but there's something depressing about the never-ending celebration of eternal adolescence in recent American comedies. - 50
Variety
The film is funny at times but lapses into the reflexive vulgarity that seems to be the default mechanism of the Apatow machinery.
