will farrell tea bag a drum set be not funny . john c. reilly in bicycle short or a chewbacca mask be not funny . the two star pulverize a playground full of eleven year old be also and you guess it and not funny . in fact and it be desperate and pathetic . it be small consolation that one of the egregious scene in the movie take place after the credit roll . unfortunately though and the aisle and exit at the theatre i saw step brother at be clog with spectator who and beyond any intelligible reason as far a i can tell and be amuse enough by the first 100 minute to stick around for the encore and so i be stick . i find it necessary to qualify my above remark and as well a those i have not yet write down and by say i do not object to raunchy and low brow humor . any one of the image mention in the lead of this review could have be as funny a the pie scene in american pie or the testicle or zipper shot in there something about mary . but there need to be some context and perhaps a little motivation a well . we need to know why something be funny and and understand how it fit in with the world it movie occupies . the image themselves do not suffice and no matter how shocking or disgusting . if you be not yet familiar with the general set up of step brother through the movie excessively aggressive and ubiquitous marketing campaign and it be rather simple . will farrell and john c. reilly play two slack child one be forty year old and the other be push forty with a short stick whose successful and motivated single parent get marry and and therefore begin the weird brady bunch type family in movie history . farrell and reilly character hate each other upon sight and bicker insufferably until they realize they be cut from the same degenerate cloth and then become best pal . eventually and the father and a revered and important physician play by richard jenkins and becomes so enrage by the overgrown adolescent antic and that he deliver an ultimatum to them . get job and move out by the end of the month . i feel this be all the plot exposition this film deserves and because step brother be more about a series of failed gag and profanity for profanity sake . i consider myself to have a very high tolerance for explicit and raunchy sexual behavior and an even high tolerance for foul language and but even i find step brother to be puke inducing and more than a bit rough . remember the tea bag scene mention in the lead . we do get to see every hairy inch of will farrell scrotum . it do not advance the plot . it be not the logical conclusion of a series of event . it be not execute with any sort of subtlety or surprise and it be telegraph a week ahead of time . it serve no function whatsoever except to show will farrell testicle because farrell and who co write the script with director adam mckay and think it be funny . it be not and and neither be the endless gag which continually use sex and genitalia and cursing and etc . a bludgeon . it be not so much a movie a an exercise in arbitrary weirdness and manic perversion . the clerk who sell me my ticket say that while most of the young audience seem to love the film and many middle age moviegoer have leave the film enrage and demand to be refund . to me and this do not demonstrate a schism in tolerance and but a schism in taste . today middle age moviegoer grow up with animal house and porky and and be quick to embrace the aforementioned american pie and there something about mary . and anybody willing to put down ten buck to see a movie star the man behind old school must have be prepare for some politically incorrect humor . however and in step brother it be not funny and just depressing and mean spirit and reprehensible . even more depressing and be the fact that there be a kernel of a good idea here . there be endless comedic possibility of two social misfit with peter pan complex who be seemingly oblivious to all real world expectation . unfortunately and this movie be completely unwilling to push the frontier of any sort of substance whatsoever . it just fall back on the same safe and broad humor that so many of farrell previous effort be mark by . bad yet and be that the two lead character quirk be make less interesting by the support character in the movie . everybody be pretty much the exact same . even the suppose smart and successful people in step brother behave like social deviant and give farrell and reilly nothing to bounce their energy off of . they hardly even stand out a weirdo . even the straight lace father succumbs to vision of be a t rex . it be not a fantasy and but a goal . there be something potentially fascinate about a successful doctor who aspire to be a member of a different specie and one that be extinct to boot and but like so much of the rest of the movie and the joke be undercut by the tone of the rest of the film . the undeniable chemistry between farrell and reilly be the only thing that make this film supportable . they really embody these character and go all the way with them . unfortunately and that be all the way to the toilet . the film display many symptom of farrell classic ain not i cute syndrome . this film make the classic mistake of believe goofiness be an adequate substitute for wit . all comedy writer and director and and actor would serve themselves well to observe a few basic lesson . smart people be funny than dumb people . secure and well adjust people be funny than zany outcast . and most importantly and a bad gag do loudly be even more annoying than the same bad gag perform at a humble volume . in a summer of surprisingly strong major studio release and step brother do what it can to taint the cinematic gene pool .