It’s probably the best that Ferrell and longtime co-star John C. Reilly did playing off each other, and the film has remained one of the more memorable works of Ferrell’s run.

| Aug 21, 2023

This isn’t the type of movie that possesses much resonance, save for the few exceptionally funny moments hidden amid the general absurdity.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 9, 2023

The thing about watching Step Brothers in 2023 is that comedy is so subjective and as the film hits fifteen years, it feels cruder than ever.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 26, 2023

The genius of Step Brothers isn’t merely the reunion of Ferrell and Reilly... Better is the bizarre personality dissonance of the perpetually fighting characters.

| Oct 17, 2022

One of those films that is impossible to rate highly, but impossible to not recommend.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 24, 2020

Step Brothers obviously isn't the most complex screenplay ever written, but Ferrell, McKay and Reilly (who all co-wrote the film) manage to milk plenty of comedy out of essentially a one-joke movie.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 26, 2019

We've been down this path before with Ferrell, and at this point it feels like we're just walking in circles.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 6, 2019

The film doesn't aspire to much. It's happy to milk laughs from creative swearing, goofy, childish behavior, and a hilarious digression that explains exactly why you should never wake a sleepwalker. It does all of this well.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 30, 2019

It isn't even the funniest movie I've seen this year. But it sure made me laugh.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 30, 2019

It's a tad problematic, a mite disturbing and immensely funny.

| Mar 30, 2019

That ranks as a major disappointment, considering the two goofballs portraying the title Step Brothers -- Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly -- are usually good for at least a few laughs.

| Mar 30, 2019

While it's somewhat sweeter, if you will, than a typical Apatow flick, the ludicrous situations call for equally ludicrous behavior and statements.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 30, 2019

Step Brothers, in sum, adheres to the grand tradition of Apatow-Animal House-American Pie tastelessness. I tried not to laugh -- but gave in to the guilty juvenile pleasures.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 30, 2019

With their curly perms, slogan T-shirts (Life's a Beach, Spring Break '84 etc), nudie mags and Chewbacca masks, the stepbrothers make a nice comic pairing.

| Mar 30, 2019

[The script] feels more like a series of dares than the blueprint for a movie. But damn if it doesn't work from beginning to end, thanks to the stars' near-psychotic commitment to their characters

| Mar 30, 2019

The potentially gooey conclusion is leavened with cynical irreverence.

| Mar 30, 2019

Though not as cleverly conceived or fully formed as Talladega Nights or Anchorman, this movie works because Ferrell and Reilly are completely believable as 13-year-olds stuck in 40-year-old bodies.

| Original Score: B | Mar 30, 2019

They're just a freak show, an excuse to give us such 'gags' as Reilly emitting the longest and noisiest fart in screen history, and Ferrell exposing his scrotum and wiping it over Reilly's drum kit.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 30, 2019

This is a 15-minute sketch - based on crude humour -- stretched out to the length of a feature film. For Ferrell fans only.

| Mar 30, 2019

Dull, ineptly paced, and lazy.

| Mar 30, 2019