STEP BROTHERS
STEP BROTHERS is some more summertime silliness re-teaming Taladega Nights stars Will Farrell and John C. Reilly again portraying blithely vacuous characters under encore director Adam McKay. This time Farrell and Reilly are 40ish man-boys each enjoying his own hapless failure to launch. Farrell’s Brennan Huff lives with his mom Nancy (Mary Steenburgen) until she falls in love with Robert Doback (Richard Jenkins) and after they get married they move into Richard’s house. One of the connections Nancy and Richard made was having a grown son at home but it’s far less endearing for Brennan as he finds himself having to share a room with his new step-brother Dale (Reilly). At first the step-sibling rivalry is hysterically caustic but one shared defining moment turns them into best buds. Friendship aside their loser ways drive a wedge between step-mom and step-dad and it’s up to the boys to cobble their meagre talents and bring the two back together. Kudos to Farrell for co-writing a funny script and pulling it off as only he can although Judd Apitow as producer probably took Step Brothers up a flight or two.