Thread: Step Brothers!
View Single Post
  #3  
Old 08-11-2008, 12:00 PM
Sean
Where in the world...?
 
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: US
Posts: 1,437
Re: Step Brothers!
I saw it for free here at work last week. Personally, I was glad to have saved my money. It had some funny moments, and I like Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly overall, but they both really need to explore some new ideas in their comedic characters. As it is, it's getting extremely tired.

My basic feeling was that this would have been fantastic as a short film, but as a full feature length movie, it came up extremely short. The story was a mess - and don't say that story doesn't matter in movies like this because that's a cop-out. If anything, a film like this requires a very simple, clear foundation of a story that the humor can be layered over. There was a simple idea in there somewhere, but it got lost in irrelevant tangent after tangent, the main character's big swings in their arcs happened in about a minute and a half in a way where we hardly even got to see it take place, and frankly, I didn't care what happened to either of them because their characters were so superficial that they didn't matter to me. And on top of that, they were doing the same jokes that they do in every single movie they make. It used to make me laugh, but now it's just boring.

I hope they step it up in their next attempt....
__________________
Download all my remixes