Step Brothers

They grow up so fast.

This comedy from the Apatow stable delivers more of the raucous comedy that fans have come to expect. Two grown men are still living with a parent. As luck (and movie scripts) would have it, their parents meet, fall in love, and shack up together. Due to space constraints, that puts the two 'kids', both around 40 years old, into the same bedroom. They degenerate into childish and randy-teen like behaviour towards each other, but find a common enemy in the one's very successful, very snooty brother.

95 minutes.
No persons under 16 (Language, Nudity).
Comedy.

Last one in is a rotten egg.

Credits

Cast	Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Mary Steenburgen, Richard Jenkins
Director	Adam McKay
Screenplay	Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, John C. Reilly
Music	Jon Brion
Cinematography	Oliver Wood
Editing	Brent White
Sound formats	Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS
Made in	2008
Produced by	Apatow Productions, Mosaic Media Group, Relativity Media

Film and Publications Board (FPB) Report (SA)

Genre	Comedy
Language	Strong, frequent
Nudity	Brief
Sex	Some
Violence	Mild
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	none
Comments	Over-the-top oddball comedy which some viewers might find distasteful and with language and themes inappropriate for younger teenagers.
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ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity	Violence	Blood / Gore / Gross
Guns / Weapons	Profanity	Alcohol / Drugs
Smoking	Disrespectful / Bad Attitude	Imitative Behaviour
Frightening / Tense Scenes	Jump Scenes	Tense Family Scenes
Music (Scary/Tense)	Music (Inappropriate)	Topics to talk about

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
Cape Argus / The Star Kgomotso Moncho	5
Die Burger Mariana Malan	1
Cape Times Nicholas Barber	5
Sunday Times Barry Ronge	5
24.com Niel Bekker	1
Chicago Sunday Times Roger Ebert When did comedies get so mean?	8
eye Weekly Adam Nayman Well-made movies come and go, but this kind of dementia is forever.	15
ReelViews James Berardinelli When did Will Ferrell stop being funny?	8
Rolling Stone Peter Travers Starting at infantile and regressing hysterically from there, Step Brothers flies on the comic chemistry of Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly.	13
ScreenIt C. Fuchs Like a bratty kid who won't shut up or go away. It isn't particularly funny and becomes increasingly annoying with each antic.	4
Metacritic.com 33 critics	10
Rottentomatoes critics 161 critics	11
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer The relentless immaturity of the humor is not a total handicap for this film, which features the consistently well-matched talents of Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly.	11
What the People say
Internet 15963 Netizens Could have been good if it was made for people old enough to see it!	14
Average .. 40%	8