Step Brothers Review

Will Ferrell is a hit-or-miss kind of guy.
I find myself loving half of the films he's in, but the other half makes me want to bang my head against a wall for an hour. However, when he teams up with John C. Reilly in "Step Brothers," it is a grand slam.
To make a clarification, I find stupid humor extremely funny if done correctly. So when I say I found this movie to be hilarious, I should also warn you that I am the target audience for this type of film. I have a 12-year-old's sense of humor in a 23-year-old's body.
The film follows two nearly-40-year-old men who are still living with their parents and spend most of their days sitting on the couch or playing their drums. However, there is trouble in paradise when Ferrell's character's mother meets Reilly's character's father and the two fall in love.
Reilly and Ferrell share their first scene at their parents' beautiful, white wedding, where both sons storm out because either their parents didn't order the salmon they wanted or incorrectly told the audience they were recently fired from Pet Smart when they were actually "laid off" because the company was making cut-backs.
Then it is time for the two families to move in together and for Ferrell and Reilly to begin their relationship as step-brothers.
The first scenes with Ferrell and Reilly as step-brothers are hilarious, as the duo verbally abuse each other and try to kill one another with bicycles and bats. After a short while, the pair decides it is better if they join forces and become best friends. At this point, Ferrell and Reilly start telling the same types of jokes from other movies and I started to get bored.
I like Ferrell and Reilly together and I think they are a recipe for hilarity, but they can also get hard to watch after too much exposure and the two actors toe that line a little too frequently in this film.
The last half-hour of the movie had me belly-laughing, and when I say last half-hour, I mean I was laughing that entire time. I actually hurt for a little while after the movie ended. Before that point, however, half the scenes had me laughing and the other scenes annoyed me, but they were spread out well enough through the movie that I really enjoyed myself.
While Ferrell and Reilly may be the names above the title, Adam Scott, who plays Ferrell's younger brother Derek, and his family steal the show right out from under them. In the first scene revealing Derek, he is forcing his family to harmonize and sing "Sweet Child of Mine" in their car. He is the typical perfect, in-your-face kind of guy who has no problem letting you know that he is more successful than you. Scott and Kathryn Hahn, who plays his wife, Alice, had me laughing in every scene they were in.
Mary Steenburgen and Richard Jenkins appear as the enabling parents and are also phenomenal. They are both the type of actors that you don't see in comedy, which makes it 10 times funnier when they appear in a film like "Step Brothers" and bring on the big laughs.
The film is aptly rated R for its extremely crude humor and the language is fairly strong throughout the film. If you are not in the mood for potty humor and male nudity, this is not the film for you.
If you aren't bothered by the crude humor and bad language, you will find yourself enjoying yourself during the 90-minute run time. I have to say that I feel the movie is geared a little more toward the male audience and more specifically the young, stupid male audience like myself. So guys, take a group of your friends and don't force your girlfriends to endure what we find to be funny.

Step Brothers
Rating: Three stars
Rated R for strong language and crude, sexual content
Starring: Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Adam Scott, Richard Jenkins, Mary Steenburgen, and Kathryn Hahn