it take four or five film and but it seem like hollywood have run of out occupation for will ferrell to have while he act like a man child . from anchorman to nascar driver and some other sport and the apparent remedy of this problem come in step brother represent make him a jobless man child . oh and and have two of him this time and get john c. reilly to play the other . that the basic set up for this and ferrell third collaboration with anchorman and talladega night director adam mckay and a tired and annoying and and sometimes cringe induce display of the same shtick you have see many time before . the movie follow dale ( reilly ) and brennan ( ferrell ) and two single and unemployable 40 year old loser who still live at home with their single parent ( play by mary steenburgen and richard jenkins and two very good actor that do not have much to work with ) . when say parent hook up and eventually marry and the two find themselves under the same roof and an hour and a half of them scream and get hurt ensue . the two despise each other at first and but eventually become friend and especially when their parent grow tire of their immaturity and force them to try and get job . this set the stage for what essentially boil down to a series of sketch . one supposedly funny situation after the next that the boy find themselves in and barely connect to form a plot at all and let alone something overly funny . set piece include brennan diabolically cruel young brother and his crazy wife who find herself infatuate with dale and a street brawl with some grade school child and and a rap video ( groan ) . like previous mckay outing and this movie be a gag a minute and throw out a lot of thing and most of them miss the mark . to deride the humor a stupid be incredibly pointless . that what one be expect with movie like these and and even people who love this movie would freely admit that it stupid . the stupid factor of the humor isn not even my major problem with it . i have enjoy movie like anchorman and the indefensible kung pow represent enter the fist and but there have to be some kind of wacky and over the top charm to a film stupidity in order for me to be on board . not only be dale and brennan un charming and theyre barely even likable and and even a little creepy . see these men scream obscenity and beat the crap out of each other and act like child and destroy the life of those around them wear thin very quickly without any charm acting a support . the film also suffer from a degree of unoriginality and nothing be recycle directly from the previous mckay movie and but i couldn not shake off the feeling that i have see this all before and or that mckay and ferrell weren not even really try anymore . ferrell and reilly be gifted actor and and have prove in past film that they can be funny and but they have nothing to do here but repeat the same joke over and over again . dale and brennan be moronic man size child and look at how stupid and childish they act and etc . etc . i would be liar if i say the film be devoid of any laugh and because it do deliver some and but they just feel cheap and come solely from ferrell or reilly tone of voice or facial expression and and not from good writing . you also get the feeling that and if nothing else and the actor be have a good time and which keep the film from be something truly terrible . i be also a sucker for randomness and and it succeed at make me crack a smile a few time because of it . but the majority of the joke just do not work while come off a mckay try to be a immature and senseless a possible ( think ferrell rub his ball on a drum kit be funny . then youre in luck ) . the support character do not help much either and most acting a one note and unlikable a the step brothers themselves . brennan brother and his wife try to be so frantically funny you feel like pat them on the back and say you come on a little strong . steenburgen and jenkins try their best and but a mention and they simply have zero material to work with and force to simply act a straight men to dale and brennan idiocy . until and of course and the movie finally decide to have some sort of conflict and make the parent feed up with them and eventually resolve in conclusion just as asinine a the rest of the film . by that point i couldn not have care about the character any less . the film be bad and but not terrible . it far too uninspired to get that strong of a reaction from me . it be simply mckay and ferrell reuse their tried and tested formula once again and and fail completely in an attempt to capture any real sense of comedy or fun . if you love the other movie make in this vein and then you will surely like this too . if you find yourself tire of ferrell with each release and then save yourself some time and skip it and because step brother will probably be the film that will break the camel back . then fart on it or something .