Product Description

Brennan Huff, a sporadically employed thirty-nine-year-old who lives with his mother, Nancy. Dale Doback, a terminally unemployed forty-year-old who lives with his father, Robert. When Robert and Nancy marry and move in together, Brennan and Dale are forced to live with each other as step brothers. As their narcissism and downright aggressive laziness threaten to tear the family apart, these two middle-aged, immature, overgrown boys will orchestrate an insane, elaborate plan to bring their parents back together. To pull it off, they must form an unlikely bond that maybe, just maybe, will finally get them out of the house.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #525 in DVD
• Brand: SONY PICTURES HOME ENT
• Released on: 2008-12-02
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 2.40:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, French
• Dubbed in: French
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 203 minutes

Amazon.com
Crude, juvenile, and proud of it, Step Brothers stars Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly as two 40-year-old men, both living at home and leading the lives of 13-year-old boys, who are thrown together when their single parents (Mary Steenburgen, Parenthood, and Richard Jenkins, Six Feet Under) get married. Brennan (Ferrell) and Dale (Reilly) start out hating each other as only teenage boys can--but things get even worse for their long-suffering parents when they become best friends. Step Brothers gets most of its mileage from very lowbrow humor, but hidden among the farts and masturbation jokes is the suggestion that while these guys may be emotionally arrested, so are Brennan's hotshot business executive brother (Adam Scott, Tell Me You Love Me) and his high-fiving frat-boy pals, just in a way that's condoned because it makes money. Also crucial is that Ferrell and Reilly capture adolescence in all its gruesome glory--the awkward insecurity but also the egomaniacal, arrogant self-centeredness. Mind you, this isn't the American version of The 400 Blows or anything--one of the movie's setpieces features Brennan tea-bagging Dale's drum set (and if you don't know what tea-bagging is... well, you will after seeing this movie). All in all, Step Brothers combines the adolescent humor of producer Judd Apatow (Superbad, Knocked Up) and the comic chemistry of Ferrell and Reilly (who previously costarred in Talladega Nights)--fans of either will find plenty to enjoy. --Bret Fetzer

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Customer Reviews

I wasn't ready!
I don't understand how people didn't like this movie.... I take that back. I expect that people didn't like this movie because they expected something smarter. For the record, don't expect this to be an intelligent comedy. It's not. At the same time, I think it's absolutely hilarious. I'm a firm believer in setting our own expectations. If you expected Twister to be some amazing, epic film, then you were probably disappointed. If you expected it to be a movie about a tornado, you were most likely entertained. The same applies to this film. Don't go in expecting an artistic masterpiece. It's crude, rudimentary comedy, and it's nice to be spoon-fed ridiculously "insipid" humor from time to time. I. Loved. This. Film. It's ridiculous, just don't expect too much.

Crude but funny
Being a Will Ferrell fan, I was very disappointed in his last film "Semi-Pro." However, I thought this film brought back the craziness that I love about Mr. Ferrell and gave some great laughs. I saw this the night before my wedding with the guys in my wedding party and we all laughed like crazy. Good stuff!

Hilarious From Start to Finish
There are some people you can count on to always make you laugh, and Will Ferrell is the king. His movies might be somewhat predictable, but there is nothing wrong with being able to predict that a movie will improve your mood. He has excellent chemistry with John C. Reilly who is quickly establishing himself to be a master comedian himself. Together they are Brendan (Ferrell) and Dale (Reilly), two forty-year-old men who still live with their parents. They have no intentions to change their station in life, but they are resentful of each other until they realize just how much they have in common. Chaos ensues as the two team up to make everyone's life impossible.

It is always fun to see a movie that was obviously made by people who enjoyed making it. I have no doubt that there were as many laughs behind the scenes as this movie provokes. Thankfully, this movie was rated R and let the boys do some things they would have otherwise been restricted from. Most notable is all of the swearing that is peppered in to punctuate funny moments. The sleepwalking scene is genius and the interviews are even better than the teaser clips in the trailer. Typically, these movies wind down a bit toward the end and feature a sentimental climax, but this movie never lets down on the comedy even when the loose ends are tied up. A riot from start to finish, this is a stupid-funny comedy that you won't want to miss.