Actors: Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly
Director: Adam McKay
Spoilers, but c'mon.
Step Brothers seems to be the apotheosis of the man-child genre - I'd think that Ferrell and O'Reilly are too old to play man-children, but not so. Each plays the son of a parent getting re-married, and thus the title - Step Brothers.
The film climaxes at Ferrell and Reilly's bizarre rendition of Con te partiro which seems to indicate that we should be ourselves, and everyone will like us. I'm probably reading into the film too deeply. Sight gags abound - post-Something About Mary, it seems that filmmakers are convinced that showing something disgusting is inherently more humorous than leaving it to suggestion. I don't think this is true, but then again, comedy really doesn't have any boundaries anymore - we're living in an entertainment world where 'everything is suggested'.
As a side note, the man-child genre has to be put to bed - it's almost meta, since comedy is itself a 'boyish' pursuit - it's almost as embarrassing as writers writing novels about writers.
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brennan has a mangina.
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