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16 May 2009

A Question About The Movie Stepbrothers..... →[More:]

For those who saw it, I have a couple of questions:

1. What drug did you do to make the movie watchable? Did you decide on a mix of five-dollar shake and No-Doz, or get ripped on Freixenet and a group-investment 50 of coke?

2. When you realized that the movie was going on for as long as it did, what was your reaction?

Did you finally get under the crawlspace of your house to look for dead feral cat remains, or try tackling the grout in the bathroom with an old toothbrush?

3. When the plot faded into a white hiss in the background of your mind, what did you do about consciousness? (I'm assuming now that the shake is down to stems, and your budget didn't include pimping for another bottle of mimosa mix?)

So, just curious. I always appreciate tips from other people who've seen the same movies I have.

post by: Lipstick Thespian at: 22:48 | 8 comments

I knew I'd hate this movie and I DIDN'T see it. Did you really think it would be any good?

posted by BoringPostcards 16 May | 23:26

I can't help you. I gave up on Will Ferrell years ago.

posted by Ardiril 16 May | 23:33

via fell asleep, and I think I had a few beers and still ended up on my laptop waiting for it to be over. Did you watch the "unrated" version? I don't know what the point of those are any more, and Stepbrothers was particularly abusive of the format.

But Ferrel's on SNL tonight and it's been pretty good.

posted by kyleg 16 May | 23:53

That movie looked terrible in trailers, so I never saw it. Codeine makes most terrible movies acceptable though, for future reference. Especially when washed down with a vodka soda.

posted by rmless2 17 May | 00:09

I watched it while stuck in a hotel room. John C. Reilly is still okay--I think it's because of the middle initial.

Also, I can't resist a tuxedo-at-a-job-interview gag.

posted by mullacc 17 May | 00:10

I actually found the first, maybe half, freaking hilarious. It was so low brow. But yeah, I laughed really hard at a couple things. It did go on wayyy to long though.

Hopefully I'm not outing myself as a philistine here.

posted by richat 17 May | 01:38

I was willing to give it a chance because Will Ferrell is so capable of being stupidly funny in a good way. But this movie wasn't that.

posted by Miko 17 May | 09:26

I'm with richat. The first half was better than the second half, but isn't that almost always the case with comedies like this?
I find the Ferrell/Reilly duo pretty irresistible in general. I gotta ask - what were you expecting? I went in expecting an enormous plate of stupid and got just that. I don't see the point in criticizing plot when it comes to goofball comedy. But that's me.

posted by Hellbient 17 May | 22:34

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