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Step Brothers

Overview


Genre :

Comedy

Release Date :

July 25, 2008

MPAA Rating :

R

Director :

Adam McKay

Starring :

Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Mary Steenburgen, Richard Jenkins, Adam Scott, Kathryn Hahn, Andrea Savage

REVIEWS RATE:  Critics  Nothing's perfect, but it's worth seeing.    Readers  4 of 5 [Rate It]

2.5 of 4

“..wildly outrageous..”
by Garrett Conti [Pittsburgh Tribune-Review]
2.5 of 4

“..too good-natured to drown in raunch..”
by Peter Travers [Rolling Stone]
2.5 of 5

“..the year's stupidest film..”
by Sean O'Connell [Filmcritic.com]
2.5 of 4

“..surprisingly raunchy, decidedly R-rated comedy..”
by Rene Rodriguez [Miami Herald]
1 of 4

“..suffocatingly stupid comedy..”
by Colin Covert [Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune]
1.5 of 4

“..rude, crude, and profane, but not in a funny way..”
by James Berardinelli [Reelviews]
2 of 4

“..occasionally funny..”
by Stephen Cole [Globe and Mail]
3 of 5

“..nothing quite matches the silly energy of Ferrell and Reilly bouncing off each other... the film's biggest asset..”
by David Mercier [FilmJudge]
2 of 4

“..Like a few other comedies in recent memory, this feels it should have been a Saturday Night Live skit rather than a full-length film..”
by Claudia Puig [USA Today]
3.5 of 4

“..funniest film..”
by Kyle Smith [New York Post]
Review rate : B

“..a dumb-and-dumber high-concept comedy..”
by Owen Gleiberman [Entertainment Weekly]
Review rate : B
Reviewed by Gary Thompson [Philadelphia Daily News]
Review rate : C
Reviewed by Sean Axmaker [Seattle Post Intelligencer]
2 of 5
Reviewed by Wade Major [Boxoffice Magazine]
Reviewed by Manohla Dargis [NY Times]

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