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Step Brothers
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Not to wax too serious here (since this is, after all, a movie in which two nearly middle-aged men beat each other over the heads with blunt instruments on their front lawn), but ticking away just beneath Step Brothers' freely associative surface is a fairly astute commentary on how we define such abstract concepts as "growing up" and "making something of yourself."
Scott Foundas
Village Voice
When it takes off into bizarre realms, the film most confidently finds its goofy groove, as well as most vigorously (and good-naturedly) mocks the boys-just-want-to-stay-boys genre that Apatow has made his lucrative own.
Nick Schager
Slant Magazine
That few girls and fewer credible women are allowed in the Apatow boys' club is old news. The only distaff comedy here is provided by the enthusiastic Kathryn Hahn, who as Derek's pitifully desperate wife, Alice, makes dexterous use of a bathroom urinal.
Manohla Dargis
New York Times
Sometimes I think I am living in a nightmare. All about me, standards are collapsing, manners are evaporating, people show no respect for themselves. I am not a moralistic nut. I'm proud of the X-rated movie I once wrote. I like vulgarity if it's funny or serves a purpose. But what is going on here?... When did comedies get so mean? Step Brothers has a premise that might have produced a good time at the movies, but when I left, I felt a little unclean.
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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