So childish it seems to arrive in diapers, and that's not bad; it's good.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Scott Foundas
Not to wax too serious here (since this is, after all, a movie in which two nearly middle-aged men beat each other over the heads with blunt instruments on their front lawn), but ticking away just beneath Step Brothers' freely associative surface is a fairly astute commentary on how we define such abstract concepts as "growing up" and "making something of yourself."Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
While Ferrell and Reilly are great together, hatching harebrained schemes that have no basis in reality, part of the unexpected treat of Step Brothers is watching Jenkins and Steenburgen sink to such blithely immature levels of rude and crude comedy.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
Step Brothers is a Judd Apatow production and it's the closest that the Apatow factory has come to spitting out a dumb-and-dumber high-concept comedy.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Stephanie Zacharek
Stupid, crude and hilarious, Step Brothers works by sneaking past our better judgment.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Ty Burr
Take the kids at your peril. Mismarketing aside, Step Brothers is crudely funny, which means that sometimes it's crudely hilarious and more often it's just crude.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
Starting at infantile and regressing hysterically from there, Step Brothers flies on the comic chemistry of Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Sam Adams
Step Brothers is not a retread so much as a reduction, stripping away the magical pretext of "Elf" and the period trappings of "Anchorman" to get to the heart of the thriving man-boy genre.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Claudia Puig
America loves dysfunctional families, but haven't we seen enough middle-aged losers who haven't grown up?Read Full Review »
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NewsWeek: David Ansen
I don't want to sound like a party pooper (or deny that there is something wickedly funny about seeing these middle-age adolescents beating the crap out of a playground full of little bullying kids) but there's something depressing about the never-ending celebration of eternal adolescence in recent American comedies.Read Full Review »
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