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Written by: Will Ferrell & Adam McKay (screenplay), Will Ferrell & Adam McKay & John C. Reilly (story)
Directed by: Adam McKay
Starring: Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Mary Steenburgen, Richard Jenkins, Adam Scott, Kathryn Hahn
Rated: R
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Plot
Two aimless middle-aged losers still living at home are forced to become roommates when their parents marry.
Verdict
This is an incredibly silly premise. It can be amusing, but it's dumb. This goes for obnoxious, ridiculous, and crude. It's typical of Ferrell's R rated comedies where he acts like a child, and I've never cared for them because they are so dumb. The funny moments this has are completely over the top.
Skip it.
Review
The premise relies on two forty year old men that act like four year olds. Brennan (Will Ferrell) and Dale (John C. Reilly) are absolutely ridiculous, immature beyond belief. This is silly nearly from the start, and I have to imagine there wasn't much of a script here. This seems like Ferrell and Reilly improvised many scenes.
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| Will Ferrell, Will Jenkins, John C. Reilly play Brennan, Robert, Dale |
This doesn't waste any time pairing the two. Their parents marry almost instantly and put the two stunted men, still living at home, in one room. Most of the movie is gag after gag loosely tied together with the semblance of a story. It's dumb with their petty fights, but they bond over their disdain for Brennan's younger brother Derek (Adam Scott). Scott plays an overbearing jerk rather well.
Conflict pushes them apart but circumstances bring them back together. Brennan sings Andrea Bocelli's “Por ti volare," and that song despite the improbability of it wraps up every single plot line in the movie. This is not my style of comedy, but it's one of those movies that I've heard mentioned so many times that I finally relented and watched it. It's what I expected. The humor relies on the crude and ridiculous. It's dumb.
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