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2008
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Positive Reviews
47
Negative reviews
24
Average Rating
2.9
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1.5
When the language tails off, thats when the slapstick violence kicks in.
Den Of Geek
2.0
Its all over the place, and it will make you laugh when you least expect it, but maybe not so much when you do.
Austin Chronicle
3.0
Although the film doesnt drag like Ferrell and McKays previous outings, with their occasionally lumpy, improv heavy scenes, Step Brothers greatest lia ..
Screen Daily
4.0
Recommending Step Brothers to anyone whos not already a Ferrell supporter is pointless.It doesnt offer anything different from before, and even longti ..
Paste Magazine
1.9
When did comedies get so mean Step Brothers has a premise that might have produced a good time at the movies, but when I left, I felt a little unclean ..
Rogerebert
4.0
The fact that Step Brothers manages to be as funny as that single quote means its more than worth your time.
Cinema Blend
1.0
But laughter isnt the result here; exhaustion is the more precise reaction.
Ny Daily News
3.5
The encumbered Jenkins and Steenburgen feel an instant bond but rarely broach the subject of their inert man children.
Philly
3.8
If all this sounds hopelessly childish, it is.But thats the idea.
Philly
1.5
Its a gross out comedy with nothing to offer but limp infantile smutty jokes and then it kicks in with the same old predictable sitcom feel good messa ..
Sover
3.1
Oddly enough, the films greatest virtue is that aside from a short speech at the end about holding on to your childhood dreams, it refuses to be anyth ..
Tv Guide
3.8
The films main line of comedy relies on Ferrell and Reilly who look and act virtually the same clowning around and playing with boyish insults and ine ..
Combust Ible Celluloid
2.5
The concept is inherently funny, but the plot grows thin and the laughs grow fewer once the premise is established.
Usa Today
3.2
This ones strictly for Ferrell, McKay, and Reilly and for those of us who really, really like them.
Eric Ds Nider
3.0
Still, the fact that the bums are played by Reilly and Ferrell nudges the movie into guilty pleasure territory; much of their nonsense is undeniably f ..
News Review
2.0
And while there are moments here and there that hit a comical resonance, in the end it comes down to how well you respond to the hammy actors and corn ..
Shadows On The Wall
3.0
In addition, the plot is extremely thin and the finale doesnt really work.In short, there are plenty of good laughs here, but Step Brothers cant quite ..
View London
3.1
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News Day
2.8
Before their latest comedy Step Brothers, Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly last teamed up for Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, which I was ..
Cs Monitor
3.1
Mismarketing aside, Step Brothers is crudely funny, which means that sometimes its crudely hilarious and more often its just crude.
Boston
3.5
Its true that American film comedy has never been so vulgar as it is now.
Smh
0.5
Heightened suspicions of the decline of civilization became inescapable this past Friday when Adam McKays Step Brothers oozed its way into theaters.
Mountain X
2.0
Ferrells comedic fearlessness, once refreshing and truly strange, is now looking awfully familiar.
Npr
1.3
The script provides no answers.My hunch: They are the product of screenwriters bent on the downfall of Western civilization.
Star Tribune
3.2
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Emanuellevy
2.0
But Reilly has always been more actor than comic, and this goofy comedy is a DVD rental only.
Guardian
3.5
Step Brothers comes across as a stupid, overtly absurd and raunchy comedy that hits more often than it misses.Viewers expecting subtle and crafty humo ..
Reel Talk Reviews
2.0
A lot of the beats are a bit too familiar from previous entries in the series, which isnt surprising given that this is the fifth film to play off the ..
Q Network
3.5
Step Brothers is hit and miss, but it made me wish that the usual American comedy of how stupid can we get had this much rage.
Ew
2.5
The whole movie is an excuse to pack in as many insults and risque teenage bodily function jokes as possible.Fair enough.
Sf Gate
2.5
The Ferrell character lacks the goofy appeal of Ricky Bobby or the skater in Blades of Glory.
Time
2.5
All of them have sparks of an interesting idea, but are ultimately done in by a pedestrian script that earns a few belly laughs, but twice as many gro ..
The Movie Boy
4.0
S tep Brothers is juvenile, ridiculous, crass and completely batshit crazyand it is easily the funniest movie Adam McKay has made to date.
Bullz-Eye
1.8
Ferrell and Reilly may be good at it, but that doesnt make it worth watching.
Reeling Reviews
4.5
(The totally unself conscious performances by the two leads are terrific, but that the rest of the movie isnt fighting them is what makes it all work. ..
Flickfilosopher
2.0
Step Brothers demonstrates the inevitable negative effects of too much of a good thing by taking a bunch of stuff that has worked in previous Will Fer ..
Las Vegas Weekly
3.0
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Total Film
1.9
Step Brothers is one of those.Humor is subjective, but this movie made me feel as if I had been subjected to something unpleasant.
ReelViews
2.5
Step Brothers: Will Ferrell needs a serious case of timeout The Will Ferrell comedy engine is running on empty in Step Brothers, a largely plotless ex ..
Seattle Pi
0.0
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Tony Medley
3.1
Its one of the films better jokes that co dependency brings these characters together.
Groucho Reviews
4.0
Unremittingly juvenile and irredeemably funny, Step Brothers is conclusive proof of that.
Cnn
3.8
(Its not surprising to note, then, that the film fares best in its newsroom based sequences, as such moments are rife with quotable, laugh out loud fu ..
Reel Film
3.1
But the movie, like most comedies these days, is occasionally as flawed and messy as its characters.
Nj
1.3
14A Embrace your inner child.Never lose your love of fart related humour, creative variations of common swear words or masturbating to nudie magazines ..
The Star
1.5
Painful to watch, this Will Ferrell vehicle is crude, infantile and unfunny as it hovers around its one tone premise in which two grown men behave lik ..
Urban Cine File
3.8
One thing spoils the mood: for all the joy that Ferrell and Reilly take in brawling or whimpering like two year olds, immaturity is still seen as some ..
The Age
3.0
Heres hoping their next effort manages to sustain the laughs past the halfway point.
Mirror
3.0
As usual, the comic timing of both actors is impeccable and best exemplified in the darkness of the bedroom as Dale teeters on the edge of unconscious ..
Digital Spy
4.4
There is too much funny here for a movie (even though it continues into the closing credits).
New York Post
3.0
Like toothpaste from a tube, every last laugh is squeezed from this absurd premise, where both men pushing forty act like theyre 14.
Abc
3.8
While its fairly unlikely that it will enjoy the same kind of record shattering, blockbusting success Step Brothers is enjoying, its fair to say that ..
Christianity Today
4.5
Like being ordered to have long hair and smile on stage, but wondering how to smile with a trombone in your mouth.Or repeatedly told youre not good en ..
News Blaze
2.8
Step Brothers is a terrifically amusing movie, but it never reaches pulse quickening hilarity.
Brian Or Ndorf
4.4
The duos pouting rant details such as perfectly clinched near tears faces are perfect.
The Filmy Ap
3.1
Ultimately, Reilly and Ferrell take the average material and elevate it to funny with their ability to be as silly as possible without regard to shame ..
Waffle Movies
4.0
Seriously, if this movie doesnt make you laugh, you might want to give up on comedy altogether.
ComingSoon
3.8
Its a pretty common story.Single parents meet and form a new family, which doesnt always please their kids.
Montreal Film Journal
3.5
That Step Brothers ultimately proves funnier, and more tolerable, than this premise suggests is largely a credit to the gifted and committed cast, who ..
News Week
3.0
Synopsis Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly and director Adam McKay the driving force behind Talladega Nights hit the laughing gas once again for the story ..
Sky
2.0
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1.5
You will be able to save yourself from getting disappointed of watching nothing but a lame movie.
Window To The Movies
3.0
Step Brothers actually represents the best and worst of Will Ferrell et al in one sloppy package.
The Shiz Nit
2.0
Funny as it is watching balding middle aged men clowning like eight year olds particularly when it involves Ferrell man crying it soon starts to grow ..
Metro
5.0
Giving equal time to each of its stellar players, that joyous finale is punctuated by fantasies about centaurs and lumberjacks, and peaks with the mos ..
The Daily Beast
3.5
You only needed one look at the poster for Step Brothers to know exactly what this film would be like.
Streaming Quickflix
2.5
It has an ending that is sentimental and conclusive, but it lurches beyond that.
Tony Mack
2.2
Once the general rhythm is established, the film remains stuck in neutral: feeding us a predictable diet of pratfalls and gross out gags which everyon ..
Flip Side Archive
3.8
Step Brothers delivers the kind of nonsensical laughs we expect at this time of the summer.
From The Balcony
1.9
Even the crude and plain stupid jokes are funny, but there is nothing new here.
Entertainment Spectrum
3.5
Step Brothers fits easily into Apatows genre of risque comedies that pick up where the once promising Farrelly brothers flagging career left off.
Film Critic 1963 Typepad
3.1
Too bad the rest of the film isnt as funny, though its not without its moments.
Crazed Fan Boy
3.0
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4.0
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This Is London
1.3
I know there is a statement about modern parenting buried in here, but everyone is too busy being crude for the sake of being crudeand painfully unfun ..
Maki At The Movies Blogspo ..
3.8
This will no doubt satisfy the fans of Ferrells shtick, but it quickly becomes tiresome for moviegoers hoping for something, well, funnier.
Ar Kansas Online
1.0
The curse of being a funny actor is that audiences tend to expect a certain level of quality.
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