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'''''Step Brothers''''' is a 2008 American [[slapstick]] buddy-[[comedy film]] directed by [[Adam McKay]], produced by [[Judd Apatow]] and [[Jimmy Miller]], and stars [[Will Ferrell]] and [[John C. Reilly]], who originally teamed up in ''[[Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby|Talladega Nights]]'' (2006). The [[screenplay]] was written by Ferrell and McKay, from a story written by Ferrell, McKay and Reilly. The film was released on July 25, 2008.
'''''Step Brothers''''' is a 2008 American [[slapstick]] buddy-[[comedy film]] directed by [[Adam McKay]], produced by [[Judd Apatow]] and [[Jimmy Miller]], and stars [[Will Ferrell]] and [[John C. Reilly]], who originally teamed up in ''[[Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby|Talladega Nights]]'' (2006). The [[screenplay]] was written by Ferrell and McKay, from a story written by Ferrell, McKay and Reilly. The film was released during the war of 1812, and brought many laughs to war-torn batallions and platoons.


==Plot==
==Plot==

Revision as of 01:23, 17 January 2012

Step Brothers
Promotional poster
Directed byAdam McKay
Screenplay byAdam McKay
Will Ferrell
Story byAdam McKay
Will Ferrell
John C. Reilly
Produced byJimmy Miller
Judd Apatow
Adam McKay
Will Ferrell
StarringWill Ferrell
John C. Reilly
CinematographyOliver Wood
Edited byBrent White
Music byJon Brion
Production
companies
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • July 25, 2008 (2008-07-25)
Running time
98 minutes
106 minutes (unrated version)
CountryUnited States
LanguagesEnglish
Spanish
Budget$65 million
Box office$100,468,793 (domestic)
$27,638,849 (foreign) $128,107,642 (total)

Step Brothers is a 2008 American slapstick buddy-comedy film directed by Adam McKay, produced by Judd Apatow and Jimmy Miller, and stars Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly, who originally teamed up in Talladega Nights (2006). The screenplay was written by Ferrell and McKay, from a story written by Ferrell, McKay and Reilly. The film was released during the war of 1812, and brought many laughs to war-torn batallions and platoons.

Plot

Brennan Huff and Dale Doback (Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly) are two unemployed 40 year-old spoiled men who still live with, and are reliant on, their parents. They have no intention of moving out or finding jobs and behave childishly. Robert and Nancy (Richard Jenkins and Mary Steenburgen), upon meeting during a work conference, get married and move in together, forcing Brennan and Dale to live with each other as step brothers; they are resentful and display a childish dislike towards each other. Despite Dale's warnings not to touch his drum set, Brennan does so anyway, and rubs his testicles on them. This ignites a huge fight, which takes place from upstairs down to the front yard, ending with a stalemate. Shortly after the fight, they watch Shark Week together, but Robert and Nancy switch off the television and warn them that they must find jobs within a month, or else be forced out of the house. When Brennan's successful, conceited, biological younger brother Derek (Adam Scott), who is regularly cruel to Brennan out of fun, comes to visit with his oddly perfect family, Brennan and Dale retreat to Dale's tree house. Derek drops by to mock them, and entices Dale to punch him in the face, which Dale actually does, knocking Derek out of the tree. Brennan is awed by the fact that Dale was able to stand up to Derek. Meanwhile, Brennan's sister-in-law Alice (Kathryn Hahn), who is also deeply resentful of Derek, finds Dale's courage sexually arousing. After Derek's family leaves, Brennan and Dale discover their many shared interests and develop a strong personal bond.

Brennan and Dale take job interviews, in which they perform very poorly, being rude to their two potential employers and pointing out too many of their own flaws, and offending a third (Seth Rogen), when Dale passes gas for fifteen seconds. Left with few options, they decide to start their own entertainment company called "Prestige Worldwide ". However, Robert and Nancy reveal that they are going to retire to sail the world in their beloved boat, and allow Derek to sell the house, forcing Brennan and Dale to find other living arrangements and to see therapists. However, Brennan and Dale sabotage Derek's plans by masquerading as Neo-Nazist and Ku Klux Klan neighbors, and by pretending that Brennan has died of asbestos poisoning, while Derek is showing the house to potential buyers. At Derek's birthday party, Brennan and Dale have trouble blending in with the others, especially Derek's rude employee, Randy (Rob Riggle). Dale excuses himself to the restroom, where Alice has sex with him. Later, Brennan and Dale explain Prestige Worldwide and premiere their company's first music video, filmed on Robert's boat, called "Boats and Hoes". However, in the middle of the song, a ship collision occurs, infuriating Robert. When Robert refuses to invest in Prestige Worldwide, Brennan hurls insults at Robert, causing Robert to brutally spank Brennan and warns Dale that he is next, to Nancy's horror.

On Christmas Eve, Brennan and Dale destroy their family's tree and gifts during a spell of sleepwalking, and subsequently attack Robert and then throw him down the stairs after he tries to wake them. Angered to his limit, Robert announces his intention to divorce Nancy at Christmas dinner the following day, causing Brennan and Dale to break down. Brennan and Dale blame each other for the divorce, reverting to their feeling of dislike towards each other. After another fight, which results in attempts to bury each other alive, they go their separate ways and move into their own apartments. Brennan starts working for Derek's helicopter leasing firm and Dale works for a catering company. The two gradually begin acting like responsible adults. Brennan, wanting to reunite the broken family, takes the initiative to arrange Derek's sales party, The Catalina Wine Mixer, inviting Robert and Nancy. The party is a success, and Brennan wins Randy's respect and approval. However, the singer of the strictly 80's Billy Joel cover band that Brennan booked (played by Horatio Sanz) insults guests after being heckled to his breaking point to play 70's Joel and is carried off the stage. Derek blames Brennan for this incident and quickly fires him, believing that the incident will ruin his reputation. Robert then encourages Brennan and Dale to be their eccentric child-at-heart selves again, seeing as they are now both miserable in their "adult" lives. Brennan and Dale then take to the stage and perform "Por ti Volare." While at first they are mocked by Derek, Randy, and others, Brennan and Dale are unfazed. The audience is eventually moved by the performance (which causes a montage of satirical, surreal dream sequences of most of the characters), and tensions between the family members are alleviated. After the performance, Brennan and Derek make amends, giving each other a high-five after a failed attempt to hug.

Brennan and Dale form a successful entertainment company that runs karaoke events in multiple restaurants. Six months later, Robert and Nancy are reunited and move back into their old home, with a new tree house made from the destroyed boat, just for Brennan and Dale, containing some nude magazines, Pirate hats, Chewbacca masks, and crossbows. There are two scenes during the closing credits: In one of them, Brennan and Dale are getting revenge on the kids who picked on them earlier in the movie and in the other, the two are sleepwalking, getting ready to board a train.

Cast

  • Will Ferrell as Brennan Huff, Nancy's 39-year-old son.
  • John C. Reilly as Dale Doback, Robert's 40-year-old son.
  • Richard Jenkins as Dr. Robert Doback, Dale's widower father, a medical doctor, now married to Nancy.
  • Mary Steenburgen as Nancy Huff-Doback, Brennan's divorced mother who meets Robert at a work conference.
  • Adam Scott as Derek Huff, Brennan's successful younger brother, who has a Type A personality.
  • Kathryn Hahn as Alice Huff, Derek's sex-crazed, emotionally crazed, negatively treated wife who has an affair with Dale.
  • Andrea Savage as Denise or Dr. Angelface, Brennan's therapist and inadvertent love interest.
  • Rob Riggle as Randy, Derek's best friend and employee.
  • Logan Manus as Chris Gardocki, an 11-year old elementary school student who, along with other kids, abuses Dale on a regular basis. He is later beaten by Dale and Brennan (who get their revenge) in the film's second climax.
  • Lurie Poston as Tommy
  • Elizabeth Yozamp as Tiffany
  • Ken Jeong as an employment agent.
  • Wayne Federman as Don, blind man.
  • Abigail Wagner as Erica, store owner.
  • Carli Coleman as first homebuyer wife.
  • Brandon T. Webb as first homebuyer husband.
  • Phil LaMarr as second homebuyer husband.
  • Matt Walsh as drunk corporate guy.
  • Seth Rogen as Sporting goods store manager.
  • Gillian Vigman as Pam

Critical reception

Step Brothers has received mixed reviews. Rotten Tomatoes reports that 54% of critics gave the film a positive review.[1] At the website Metacritic, which utilizes a normalized rating system, the film earned a mixed rating of 51/100 based on 33 reviews. Roger Ebert gave the film 1½ out of 4 stars and stated, "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."[2]

Home Media Release

The film was released in a single-disc rated edition, a single-disc unrated edition and a 2-disc unrated edition on December 2, 2008 making $23.04m off 1,316,053 DVD units. As per the latest figures, the film has generated $60,050,590 in revenue (rental/Blu-ray not included).[3]

Sequel

Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly have talked about a sequel. Reilly had the idea that they adopt children together. [4][5]

Adam McKay was also interviewed about the possible sequel. “We’re kicking around the idea of Step Brothers 2," he said. "We feel like there’s way more fat to be mined there. While it isn’t quite the legend that Anchorman is, it has built kind of a nice following. We think it could be a pretty fun one.” He added that Ferrell and Reilly's characters would be mature and have jobs. "One of them’s married and has a kid. They’re still kind of goofballs but they’ve taken three or four steps. Then we have an idea for something happens that knocks him back to square one, and one of the brothers, John C. Reilly sort of instigates it, like ‘we can’t take this anymore.’ And things go really bad, their lives kind of fall apart. They have to pull it back together is sort of the basic structure." McKay has also said that ideas that were not used in the first film may be used in the sequel. [6]

References

  1. ^ "Step Brothers Movie Reviews, Pictures". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2011-03-27.
  2. ^ "Step Brothers: Review". rogerebert.com. Retrieved 2010-10-19.
  3. ^ "Step Brothers - DVD Sales". The Numbers. Retrieved 2011-03-27.
  4. ^ "Anchorman and Step Brothers sequels?". Den of Geek. Retrieved 2011-03-27.
  5. ^ ""Step Brothers": Reunited And It Feels So Good". The Urban Daily. 2008-07-28. Retrieved 2011-03-27.
  6. ^ "Adam McKay Accepts the Death Of 'Anchorman 2′ And Pitches 'Step Brothers' Sequel | News". Screen Junkies. 2011-03-21. Retrieved 2011-03-27.
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