...Lat night I was in need of watching something light and funny. Searching the shelves of my local video shop I spotted Step brothers starring Will Ferrell and decided to give it a try.
Cast.
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Will Ferrell-Brennan Huff.
John Reilly-Dale Doback.
Mary Steenburgen-Nancy Huff.
Richard Jenkins- Dr Robert Doback.
Adam Scott- Derek Huff.
Kathryn Hahn- Alice Huff.
The film runs for 98 minutes and is a certificate 15. The film is directed by Adam Mc Kay
The plot.
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Nancy Hoff and Dr Dale Doback meet and fall in love. They soon decide to get hitched and move in together. Both parents have 40 year old unemployed sons still living at home. Neither has ever had to take any responsibility and act more like 10 year olds than men. The sons have very similar characters and resent each other at the start. They both work...
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Advantages: Over fairly quickly Disadvantages: Just not very good...
...***Film Only Review***
Last night I sat down to watch Step Brothers after being told by a friend, who has a similar sense of humour to me, that it was pretty funny and worth a watch.
Story
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Brennan (Will Ferrell) and Dale (John C Reilly) are two 40 year old who still live at home with their parents. Dale's dad and Dale have been living together Dales' whole life, Dale doesn't work and loves the lifestyle of being able to do what he wants when he wants, especially jamming on his drum kit.
Brennan is a slightly more sensitive character having been raised by his mother his whole life and likes still being looked after even though he is middle aged.
When Dale and Brennan's parents hook up and get married, both of the boys (I say boys, meaning men!) have to learn to share and get along as step brothers. Initially...
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Advantages: good dancing Disadvantages: Average acting, weak and predictable storyline
...Tyler gage is a teenager who is from the rundown end of Baltimore. He lives in a foster home and makes a living steeling cars with his two close friends. Tyler and his friends love to dance and it is on one of the nights when they are thrown out of a party after Tyler danced with someone girlfriends that he lands himself in trouble. Tyler, Skinny and Mac end up breaking into the School for Performing Arts and wreaking havoc and as a result Tyler is given 200 hours community service which he must do working in the school.
It is at this school doing his community service where he meets Nora, a very well to do girl who is a classical dancer and is working towards a showcase in the hope that she will be accepted by a Dance Company. Nora is stuck as she has lost her dance partner and it is not long before Tyler offers to step in. Nora...
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