3 out of 5

Director: Adam McKay

Obvious and unsurprising, Step Brothers is also worth some good laughs and wisely stays away from doing anything too smart with the plot (which the whole Apatow-ring of movies sometimes seem to do). Overgrown kids (30 years old) Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly live at home and are now living in the same home thanks to their single parents falling in love with one another and tying the knot. The movie goes through the paces appropriately during its 90 minutes, from set-up, to conflict, to the stepbrothers uniting for a common cause… and through the climax and resolution. Again, nothing surprising, really, and this is the man-child base/random humor aspect of these style movies isolated and amped up, so your tolerance and appreciation for the film will revolve around your enjoyment of those types of jokes. And, overall, I was happy that it toyed with the plot as realistically as possible, not ignoring the fact that the guys are playing two semi-lovable idiots.