Step Brothers: 60 Out Of 100 Stars

This was a hard one to review. Was it funny? Yes. Was it insanely dumb? Yes.

I guess it goes without saying that you have to accept the preposterous premise to enjoy the film, and I don't think I really did accept it. I think either I'm getting sort of burned out on the Ferrel routine or this was just an autopilot setup to engage in a bunch of dick jokes and 4th grade humor. Probably a little of both, but I would have appreciated if it seemed like they spent more than 10 minutes coming up with the idea for this film. They might as well of just called it Ferrell And Reily Act Like Children for 90 Minutes

So yeah, the plot is that 2 divorcees meet cute and get married, luckily they both have 40 year old sons who still live at home. There is nothing wrong with that premise, in fact it's open to much possible above average humor. The problem is that neither of the leads play 40 year old men, they play 12 year olds, which at times became eye rolling and mind numbing.

They both wanna be in a band, they share a tree house and read pornos, they cry when they get yelled at, they want bunk beds, etc etc. It was just all too much. The reason these guys previous movies worked so much better is because it gave if not a solid excuse, a legitimate and thought out excuse for their wacky behavior. There is no excuse here, they just wanna play 12 year olds.

If you've ever watched a movie you will realize at some point there will come a time in this film when both men realize that they have to grow up, and that's even more frustrating because at no time is there any middle ground. They go straight from little kids to adults, with no middle ground, it's really very dumb.

Ok, now the reason I still gave this movie an above average rating. You will laugh. You will probably laugh a lot. They will be stupid, retarded, belly laughs but they will be laughs all the same. The film is just balls to wall ridiculousness from the get go and even though a lot of it misses, that still leaves time for so much of it to hit.

The best character in the film is probably Kathryn Hahn, who plays the wife of Ferrells dickhead younger brother. When Reilly stands up to her husband she goes gaga over him and it leads to some of the movies best scenes, including a bathroom fuck that had me rolling, and then a piss scene that was just magnificent.

So yeah, turn off your brain and just enjoy it for what it is and you'll have some chuckles, but don't expect anything close to the best of what Ferrell or Apatow have churned out in the past few years.