Uncle Northcott’s Movie Reviews

I want a moratorium on Saturday Night Live performers- past and present- from being in any film for at least 1 calendar year. Eddie Murphys yearly embarrassments, Mike Myers Love Guru, Ferralls Semi-Pro, this madness must stop. These aren’t flops, these are outright embarrassments. Big difference. It seems that everytime I look up all I see are SNL excrements hurting my 5 senses. Seth Myers, Will Forte, Horatio Sanz, Kristen Wiig, Amy Poehler, I can’t get away from them! The only one that gets a free pass is Robert Downey JR and thats only because of Ironman. Sorry what was I talking about? Oh yea Step Bros. If your allergic to the F-word don’t see this, it will give you hives. I haven’t heard this much cursing since the Tourettes jamboree I enjoyed so much. This is a Judd Apatow movie thru & thru. Another person who needs a vacation. It follows the Apatow pattern of being VERY R- rated for general raunchiness, bad language, full frontal male nudity but then will have a good lesson somewhere in it. If You’ve seen 40 Year Old Virgin, Walk Hard, Superbad, Knocked Up You know what I’m talking about. Step Bros. is very funny in a juvenile way which, luckily I like. Ferrall and John C. Reilly play 40 year old man-childs who live at home. When Ferralls Mom and Reillys Dad get married, the “boys” have to share a room and get competitive for attention. When Ferralls overachiving brother offers to sell their house so the parents can retire to a boat, the “boys” need to get jobs and grow up fast. Odd that the moral is that hard work=bad while being a stunted adolescent=good. The boy who wont grow up is a cmmon thread in most comedys the last few years. Apatow, Will Ferrall, Seth Rogan, all their carreers are based on this premise. I’m not sure what this means, being that I’m not a sociologist, but I did have a sociologist diease once. A shot of penicillan fixed me right up. Anyway Step Bros. is funny if you have thick skin and not with your kids. Right Barb. Step Bros. is not intended for anyone under, I dont know I’d say 10 years of age. Kidding. Next: Either another Apatow movie, Pineapple Express or The Mummy.