Will Ferrell plays Brennan (“You can call me… “Nighthawk) and John C. Reilly is Dale (“Call me Dragon”), two unemployed full-grown manboys who each live with a widowed single parent in “Step Brothers.”
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Brennan mooches off mom Nancy (Mary Steenburgen) and Dale off dad Robert (Richard Jenkins of “Six Feet Under”). When Nancy and Robert get married, their live-in sons become stepbrothers.
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The boys are alternately sworn foes, BFFs and even sober job-holding adults.
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There hasn’t been this much fun under the same roof since the creation of the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms.
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“Step Brothers” has the sweet comedic splendors of live burial, bunk-bed catastrophe and a minivan family singing “Sweet Child O’ Mine” in four-part harmony.
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The concept of grown men acting like boys has rarely been done properly, with the correct degree of vulgarity, social awkwardness, scowly faced mystery, aggression and Bruce Lee T-shirts.
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With its middle-age roommates failing to meet basic developmental milestones, “Step Brothers” is like “Wayne’s World” and “The Odd Couple” taking a shower together, under a soothing cascade of filthy language.
