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Article: Keep it in the family; Step Brothers (15) Starring: Will Ferrell, John C Reilly, Richard Jenkins, Mary Steenburgen, Adam Scott, Kathryn Hahn. Director: Adam McKay Rating: ** THE BIG PICTURE.(Features)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- August 29, 2008
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Byline: Philip Key
THE biggest laugh in Adam McKay's comedy of escalating sibling rivalry comes before the opening credits roll.
We are treated to one of George W Bush's infamous turns of phrase, taken from a campaign speech in 2000, when he proudly declared, "Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream."
This unintentional verbal faux pas surpasses anything in McKay and Will Ferrell's script, which is as gleefully mean-spirited as it is unnecessarily foul-mouthed.
The flimsy premise reunites Ferrell and John C Reilly, who costarred in Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby, as 40-something men who possess the ...