Posted by
Emmett of the Unblinking Eye on Friday, July 25, 2008 8:39:53 PM
Now the first thing you must know is that there are "R" ratings and there are "R" ratings. For example, one of the sties once bragged to a newspaper that he had seen his first "R" rated movie when he was six. Of course, what he failed to mention was that it was
Major League
which is, after all, a baseball movie.
Step Brothers, on the other hand, is not a baseball movie, and its "R" rating should be trusted, believed in and followed. Unlike most of the other Will Farrell movies, this is a hard, hard "R", and is definitely inappropriate for anyone under 17 -- and for most women until they're about 30 (sexist, I know, but you watch the "Don't touch my drums!" scene and tell me that you'd want your daughter to see it).
But aside from that, this is a funny, funny movie, even if 90% of the humor comes from potty language in unlikely places and potty humor. And the last 15 minutes may be the most surreal piece of comedy ever made.
But what's truly odd about the set up is that these 39 and 40 year old men act like 12 year olds and no one -- least of all their parents – seems to think it's odd. But you sure will.