Step Brothers

[Duane]

I'm surprised no one has made a thread talking about this movie.

I went opening night and again on Saturday with my brother. This has got to be Will Ferrell's best movie to date. From almost the first minute to the closing credits, don't leave when they start to roll, is a non-stop laugh fest. There was only one part of the movie that dragged in my opinion but I won't talk about it since it'll spoil part of the plot.

Has anyone else gone to see this yet?

 

[trickblue]

One of the reviews I read said that they have a lot of chemistry and that while there are your typically over the top unfunny moments, that there are several laugh out loud scenes...

 

[Chief]

I'll go see it at some point.

I liked Ferrell in Anchorman and Blades of Glory, but I thought the basketball movie he did last year was lame.

 

[theogt]

I chose to go see Pineapple Express instead. Very disapponted with PE. It had its moments, but nothing special at all.

 

[Duane]

I'll go see it at some point.

I liked Ferrell in Anchorman and Blades of Glory, but I thought the basketball movie he did last year was lame.

I thought Semi-Pro was actually pretty funny. The whole $10,000 basket had me on the floor.

I chose to go see Pineapple Express instead. Very disapponted with PE. It had its moments, but nothing special at all.

The weak previews had me worried about that movie.

 

[MrMom]

centaur scene, ftw!

 

[AbeBeta]

I chose to go see Pineapple Express instead. Very disapponted with PE. It had its moments, but nothing special at all.

You didn't get stoned beforehand did you?

 

[Tusan_Homichi]

I saw Step Brothers. Definitely very funny and highly quoteable.

 

[Meat-O-Rama]

Saw it tonight with my wife.

Was expecting it to be the typical comedy where all the funny stuff from the commercials is gone in the first five minutes. We seriously laughed from start to finish. As mentioned it slows down a little in the middle, but overall I'd rate it very highly.

 

[Tusan_Homichi]

Saw it tonight with my wife.

Was expecting it to be the typical comedy where all the funny stuff from the commercials is gone in the first five minutes. We seriously laughed from start to finish. As mentioned it slows down a little in the middle, but overall I'd rate it very highly.

Exactly and they didn't try to shoehorn a real plot into the movie. A lot of comedies ditch the funny stuff to try and fit a real "story" in there so that it can end. This movie didn't do that. Funny stuff.

 

[CF74]

B+...

 

[Cochese]

I dunno, it just seems like Will Ferrell being Will Ferrell. He doesnt even have to act any more, he just has an assembly line of movies coming out at least twice a year where he plays basically the same person....over and over and over again.

 

[HTownCowboysFan]

I'm surprised no one has made a thread talking about this movie.

I went opening night and again on Saturday with my brother. This has got to be Will Ferrell's best movie to date. From almost the first minute to the closing credits, don't leave when they start to roll, is a non-stop laugh fest. There was only one part of the movie that dragged in my opinion but I won't talk about it since it'll spoil part of the plot.

Has anyone else gone to see this yet?

I thought it was crap. Some funny stuff yes, but it got old quick. Ferrell, IMO, needs to get outside his box and do something a little different.

 

[Duane]

I thought it was crap. Some funny stuff yes, but it got old quick. Ferrell, IMO, needs to get outside his box and do something a little different.

Them referencing the Hulk and not Batman and Robin had to have been the final straw.

 

[HTownCowboysFan]

Them referencing the Hulk and not Batman and Robin had to have been the final straw.

No, that was the best part!

OLD SCHOOL is his best. Anyway...

Hey, don't kill the messenger, it's gotten KILLED by the critics -- it's like 10% on ROTTEN TOMATOES. Here's a sign y'all of a movie that sucks: no press screening or it's screened late on a Thursday. And there was none in Houston so that's why I didn't see it early or review it. But if I DID, I would have given it a D+. WF is GOOD, but he needs to do something different, IMO.

But as always, art is subjective. I don't begrudge anyone that likes it.

 

[Meat-O-Rama]

But as always, art is subjective. I don't begrudge anyone that likes it.

Here's the thing: it's not art, it's just a funny movie. If you are going in expecting an oscar performance or something other than juvenile humor, you'll be sorely disappointed. But if you're going in expecting Will Ferrell to be Will Ferrell, you'll have a good time.

 

[Kevinicus]

Like I said in another thread, I kind of expected it to suck, but liked it quite a bit. I usually dislike WF most of the time, but thought this was easily his best movie. Well, except for Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, but he wasn't a lead in that.

 

[ajk23az]

I thought it was crap. Some funny stuff yes, but it got old quick. Ferrell, IMO, needs to get outside his box and do something a little different.

He did a little something different with "Stranger Than Fiction".

 

[Big Dakota]

I chose to go see Pineapple Express instead. Very disapponted with PE. It had its moments, but nothing special at all.

That's why i always wait till the comedies come out on dvd or movie channels. At near 10 buck to see a movie i try and save the big screen for the good action/special effects flicks. Now a days they make all the funny movies look great with the clips but i find a large portion fail to be all that funny.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

haven't seen it yet, but it looks like a classic Will Ferrell movie: funny, stupid, where you don't have to think alot and you'll be laughing, I like WF when he talks like a child

don't find that McGinley fella very funny, he's much better in serious roles

my only beef is how every WIll Ferrell and/or McGinley comedy gets hyped up like crazy, like the commercials saying Step Brothers is the movie I've been waiting for...uh, not really, I'm probably not going to see it ever, just like I'm probably never going to see Walk Hard: A Dewey Cox Story ever either