Step Brothers Critic Reviews
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So childish it seems to arrive in diapers, and that's not bad; it's good.Read the full review
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.Read the full review
Take the kids at your peril. Mismarketing aside, Step Brothers is crudely funny, which means that sometimes it's crudely hilarious and more often it's just crude.Read the full review
Starting at infantile and regressing hysterically from there, Step Brothers flies on the comic chemistry of Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly.Read the full review
Step Brothers is not a retread so much as a reduction, stripping away the magical pretext of "Elf" and the period trappings of "Anchorman" to get to the heart of the thriving man-boy genre.Read the full review
America loves dysfunctional families, but haven't we seen enough middle-aged losers who haven't grown up?Read the full review
This is a loud, ugly, foul comedy whose shortcomings extends far into the supporting cast.Read the full review
The film is funny at times but lapses into the reflexive vulgarity that seems to be the default mechanism of the Apatow machinery.Read the full review
Essentially a throwaway film.Read the full review
The only thing that can explain middle-aged men acting like 6-year-olds is mental retardation, and there's nothing funny about that. The idea of middle-aged actors playing adolescents isn't much funnier. Put it this way: Such an idea does not make for an inexhaustible source of comedy.Read the full review
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