Monday, January 5, 2009

Step Brothers

Two single parents with sons the same age experience love at first sight. They tie the knot and merge the two households into one. The two kids are forced to share a bedroom and their toys, and natually have trouble accepting the new parents/rules/arrangements. As the story develops, however, they make a 180 from archenemies to best friends. All in all, a fool-proof plot to a Walt Disney summer flick. The only quirk is that the kids are Will Ferrell and John C Reilly.

If you think 14-year-old boys were bad, try watching a couple of 40-year-olds act 14 and take obnoxiousness to a whole new level. You really have to be sick in the head to find some of these things funny (spoilers alert):

  • One of the first things they discovered they had in common: favorite non-pornographic magazine to masturbate to.
  • Ferrell ignores Reilly's warning about touching his sacred drumset, chips one of the drumsticks, denies it, then goes on to vow and make good his promise to put his nutsack on the drumset. As much of Will Ferrell's ass I've seen on SNL and Old School prior to this, I was NOT prepared to see nutsack in this movie, rubber or otherwise.
  • They pass by an elementary school and not only get bullied and beaten up by the kids on the playground, but were also forced to lick white dog poop off the ground.
  • They go to a job interview together, during which Reilly lets out the longest streak of fart. The interviewer tastes it on his tongue and asks "Is that onion? Onion and ketchup..."
  • Ferrell's brother played by Adam Scott leads his model WASP family of four to sing "Sweet Child of Mine" in perfect harmony in the car.
  • Scott provokes Reilly and gets sucker punched in the face and falls off the treehouse. Scott's wife played by Kathryn Hahn gets aroused by Reilly's gutsy endeavor and finds the opportunity to hump him in the man's bathroom, then goes on to take a leak at the urinal with one leg up on the wall.

The worst movies deserve a happy ending. The stepbrothers go on to form their own music group, with Reilly on drums and Ferrell in vocals with his "angelic voice like a combination of Fergie and Jesus".

1 comment:

Unknown said...

i actually thought it was a really funny film. most apatow films usually have a nice ending and aren't too slapstick. it's perhaps also the first time i've heard of a "ball fro". what's next on your list of videos to watch?