Grade: C
Okay, so part of me did not want to give up on Will Farrell. And there were plenty of reasons not to. The trailer alone is funnier, the premise is funnier, the supporting cast is funnier, and it's a summer movie as opposed to the not-so-beloved January movies. And what I got was a replay of most boys' lives between the ages of 5 and 10, except you threw some violence and a couple of curses...okay a lot of curses....okay a shitload of fucking curses.
If you laughed at the last sentence (and imagined Will Farrell saying it), then Step Brothers is the movie for you. Hell, it might be the best movie you've seen all year, if not the decade. But for the others, that's about all you can look forward to. A sad fact considering Richard Jenkins and Mary Steenburgen play the parents, and random cameos are made from Seth Rogen, Ken Jeong, and Horatio Sanz.
It's one of those comedies where it looks like the actors are having more fun than the audience, hoping that they can evoke some sort of jealousy for you all who aren't having as much fun. As for Farrell and John C. Reilly, the film feels like they're riding off of a wave of Talledega momentum that has already passed over a year late.
And while most of the funny parts are not ruined in the trailer, a good amount is. You will be guaranteed a few hearty laughs, but none in succession or none so loud that you'd fall off the seat. You'll leave the theater emotionless, without a grin on your face (and really, isn't that the whole point of these comedies), and you'll say to yourself, "I could've probably waited for the DVD."
The search for a Will Farrell masterpiece continues, one that can relive his fleeting moments as Chazz Reinhold. At least he's headed in the right direction after Semi-Pro. Though that's not saying much.
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