Synopsis
Everybody has one—the sibling who is always just a little bit behind the curve when it comes to getting his life together. For sisters Liz, Miranda and Natalie, that person is their perennially upbeat brother, Ned. But as each of their lives begins to unravel, Ned's family comes to realise that Ned isn't such an idiot after all.
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Cast
- Paul RuddNed
- Elizabeth BanksMiranda
- Zooey DeschanelNatalie
- Emily MortimerLiz
- Steve CooganDylan
- Hugh DancyChristian
- Kathryn HahnJanet
- Rashida JonesCindy
- Shirley KnightIlene
- T.J. MillerBilly
Recommendations
- 75
Slant Magazine
Shat makes Our Idiot Brother work is the endless appeal of watching Rudd's lovable idiot run roughshod over the sophisticated New York mini-universe while winning the confidence and admiration of everyone around him. - 70
Boxoffice Magazine
This is Rudd's movie and he once more displays an unerring eye for comedy. He comes at it from an actor's perspective rather than a comedian's and it shows as his character as hilarious as he is credible. - 67
Tampa Bay Times
Certainly amusing, but it never accelerates past one-note characters playing out separate personal crises in ways that aren't surprising. - 63
Orlando Sentinel
The unfailing sweetness of Paul Rudd's lead performance makes what could have been another raunchy and rude R-rated farce a bracing change of pace in a summer of aggressive comedies about aggressive people, from "Bad Teachers" to "Horrible Bosses." - 60
Arizona Republic
The rest of the cast is fine, actually, but Rudd spares nothing in making Ned a lovable loser, with the emphasis on "loser." - 60
Time Out
Apart from the disastrously miscast Deschanel's dithering switch-hitter, the film's extended clan of uptight urbanites rings true - though their course-corrections don't. - 58
IndieWire
Hiding behind a shaggy beard and a stoner grin, Paul Rudd plays an amusingly oblivious shlub in Our Idiot Brother, but the movie can't keep up with his comic inspiration. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
Shambles along with all the purposefulness of its title character, a kind of near-beer Lebowski who's neither reckless enough to cheer for nor misguided enough to disdain.
