Very few people have gotten to the place in Hollywood where Adam McKay, Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly have found themselves. Their movies have been so consistently funny and financially viable (Anchorman, Old School, Talladega Nights) that they no longer have to pitch films: Just promise that the film will feature Will Ferrell, lots of shouting and some references to bodily fluids and genitalia and you have a budget. So in that sense, this film delivers. For example, there is a scene involving Will Ferrell’s testicles that had me pondering the same question as the Black step-father in “There’s Something about Mary,”which is: How ‘d you get the beans above the frank?
There were some funny moments, but at times I wondered if I was laughing because I was so eager to find something “ha ha” funny about this film, and not just, “Oh that’s messed up” funny. “Step Brothers” delivers a lot of the latter and a little of the former. I can understand the concept of the film: Two very vibrate senior citizens are brought together by their freeloading, developmentally- stunted middle-ages sons. Ferrell and Riley can take this running joke pretty far, but only so far. Throughout the film, it seems that Ferrell and Riley did not decide beforehand whether they wanted their characters to be goofy, obnoxious or mentally-challenged, so they instead had them alternate between the three.
There were points in the movie where I wondered if I should leave the room. If I were watching someone masturbate, I think I would have the same thought.
First Semi-Pro, now this. You’ve got one mo’gin, Mr. Ferrell.
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