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(1 - 32) of 32 OFCS Rating: 44% Rotten Page   1   B+ "The majority of the gags, as crude as they can be, hit the mark and the interplay between Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly keeps the film from becoming a repetitive bore."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark 3.5/5 "It's hard to deny how absolutely hilarious Step Brothers really is. You may feel guilty as Hell for laughing at it, but it definitely does earn its cheap and childish giggles"   PopMatters   Bill Gibron C+ "Step Brothers touches inspired insanity intermittently, it never stays put, resulting in a picture of pleasing bedlam, but never consistent bedlam."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf B "Goofy, bawdy, and full of slapstick physicality "Step Brothers" takes advantage of the natural comic chemistry between Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly to generate a coming of age comedy that's funnier than any of Will Ferrell's recent outings."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey 4/10 "In Step Brothers, Nancy (Mary Steenburgen) is the ideal audience, the girl who can't fathom the anti-nuances of masculine ritual."   NPR   Cynthia Fuchs 3/5 "Story? Who needs a story? We've got miles of film with Will and Johnny ad libbing! It'll be great!"   eFilmCritic.com   David Cornelius D "Step Brothers is no Bringing Up Baby."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 2/4 "With a few tweaks, the picture could have actually been about 12-year-old step-brothers, and been better for it."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman B- "This one's strictly for Ferrell, McKay, and Reilly -- and for those of us who really, really like them."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 3/4 "Neither are merely satirizing the late '80s string of age reversal comedies. Instead in their own bizarro way have a charm that results in their commitment to the premise."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress D- "One more step in the infantilization of American comedy....Its vulgarity is exceeded only by its stupidity, and it glorifies both."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 1.5/4 "Few films are worse to sit through than comedies that don't work. Step Brothers is one of those."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2/5 "Early in Step Brothers, Dr. Doback tells his son "Dale, I think that it's time we both made a few changes. " Would that screenwriters Adam McKay and Will Ferrell had taken that advice to heart."   Cinematical   James Rocchi 3/5 "There is a plot, but it only exists to give Ferrell and Reilly some focus for their juvenilia. While this sounds like a negative comment, it's actually not."   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery B+ "Ferrell and Reilly have such chemistry together, and their ability to go over the top makes this film utterly ludicrous, horridly uncomfortable and ridiculously funny."   Film School Rejects   Kevin Carr 3/4 "Ferrell and John C. Reilly further prove that they're a perfectly matched comic pairing."   Montreal Film Journal   Kevin N. Laforest D+ "...as much fun as being locked in a room with a pair of sexually precocious brats."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford "[S]atirizes the trend that's all the rage now: men wallowing in adolescence through their 30s... [H]alf the other movies we've been assaulted with over the last few years have actually seemed to celebrate that horror..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 2.5/4 "Unlike Old School or Anchorman, this isn't a Will Ferrell movie that you'll want to watch over and over or quote back and forth with your friends."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan D "Will Ferrell and director Adam McKay founded the acclaimed "Funny or Die" website. On this movie, I vote "die.""   Beliefnet   Nell Minow 3/4 "There's something brilliantly stupid (or stupidly brilliant) about the sight of Ferrell and Reilly in vintage '80s t-shirts smacking each other around like steroidal kids, though it's the little things that make their complementary performances thrive."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 4/5 " It may not be the most sophisticated film around but every once in a while, you need an unabashedly juvenile goof to sort of clear the pipes and this one gets the job done."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 2/5 "Sporadically funny, and ridiculous enough to keep some fans happy ... but even a solid cast can't sustain one joke this long."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline B "A cumbersome work but one nevertheless blistering in its excavation of our deepest fears, desires, and the inherent absurdities therein."   Projection Booth   Rob Humanick C- "'Look, they're grown men! And they behave like children!' Lather. Rinse. Repeat."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux D+ "There are exactly two scenes in Step Brothers featuring anything resembling comic inspiration and neither of them rests on the film's two stars."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford C "... a largely plotless exercise in grown men behaving with the juvenile irresponsibility and self-centered obsession of spoiled children."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker 2.5/5 "You know you're in trouble when the George W. Bush quote you open your movie with ("Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream") gets the evening's biggest laugh."   Filmcritic.com   Sean O'Connell "Stupid, crude and hilarious, Step Brothers works by sneaking past our better judgment."   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek 4/10 "Don't be fooled by the family-friendly collapsing bunk-bed trailers! This is a crude, grossly vulgar, comedic rumination on contemporary parenting and sibling rivalry."   SSG Syndicate   Susan Granger 4/10 "Possesses one and only one gag: watching middle-aged men acting like 12-year-olds with exceedingly dirty vocabularies...Easily the least-enjoyable of all the Ferrell vehicles."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton 2/5 Read review   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick  (1 - 32) of 32 OFCS Rating: 44% Rotten Page   1