Step Brothers Critic Reviews

America loves dysfunctional families, but haven't we seen enough middle-aged losers who haven't grown up?Read the full review

Humor is subjective, but this movie made me feel as if I had been subjected to something unpleasant.Read the full review

There's a good subject for satire here, the extended adolescence of American kids. But satire presupposes maturity, or at least some perspective. The movie's calculation is that its subjects and audience share the same point of view. The results are truly ghastly.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

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

They're losers that only a mother, an entertainment manager or a gang of self-satisfied comedy insiders could love.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

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

Essentially a throwaway film.Read the full review