Step Brothers

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-Leave Now-

Will Ferrell and John C. Reilley star in a slapstick comedy movie about two middle-aged men who still live with their parents and have to move in with each other after their parents get married.

I did not expect much from this movie and I did not get much.  The entire movie is repulsive and wildly inappropriate.  

The acting in this movie was horrible.  Having said that, the acting is about what you would expect from a slapstick comedy.  It does disappoint somewhat though considering the amazing acting job Will Ferrell did in Stranger than Fiction.  There is an interesting juxtaposition of the serious acting style used by Mary SteenBurgen and John C Reilly who played the parents and the slapstick unserious acting style used by Ferrell and Reilly.

SPOILER WARNING

The plot in this movie is extremely thin.  When you watch this movie for the first time there are really only two pieces of the plot you don't already know.  The first is Brennan, played by Will Ferrell, has a brother Derek, played by Adam Scott, that is supposedly the pinnacle of success and the affair that Dale, played by Reilly, has with Derek's wife Alice, played by Kathryn Hahn.

Robert Ebert also found the movie distasteful and poorly written while the movie goers at Fandango on the average say that you should see it.

EXPECTATIONS:
-WHO?-
-I think I'll take a Nap- 
-Sounds Good- 
-I Had to See it-

ACTING:
-Get a DAY JOB-
-Ive Seen Worse-
-Decent-
-Real Enough-
-I Was Convinced-
-Was that Real?-

PLOT:
-Shallower Than a Puddle-
-Just Enough-
-Just Right-
-I'm Lost-
-I'm Drowning!-

Links:
See the Official Site
See the Rotten Tomatoes Rating
Get the entire movie spoiled at Wikipedia

Disturbia

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Shia LaBeouf star in a DreamWorks mental thriller directed by D.J. Caruso.

This movie is good enough to watch couple of times but will get boring after that. The acting in the movie was pretty good overall. LeBeouf is convincing as a spoiled problem child who was traumatized by the early death of his father. The killer played by David Morse was very convincing and had the best acting performance in the cast.

The movie's plot is small and simple but adequate for a movie.

SPOILER WARNING

The idea of "Every killer lives next to somebody" gave this movie great potential that it did not quite live up to. Viewers may have trouble making the mental leaps that the movie asks you to make. Early in the story Kale (Shia LaBeouf) and two of his friends are convinced that their neighbor is a killer and start messing with his car and house and stalking him around a local store. The leap from creepy neighbor who kills rabits to psycho serial killer happens to fast and many viewers will be left behind.

You can read a short more positive review of the movie at Film and Movie Reviews or see what other viewers thought at Fandango.

EXPECTATIONS:
-WHO?-
-I think I'll take a Nap-
-Sounds Good-
-I Had to See it-

ACTING:
-Get a DAY JOB-
-Ive Seen Worse-
-Decent-
-Real Enough-
-I Was Convinced-
-Was that Real?-

PLOT:
-Shallower Than a Puddle-
-Just Enough-
-Just Right-
-I'm Lost-
-I'm Drowning!-

Links:
See the Official Site
See the Rotten Tomatoes Rating
Get the entire movie spoiled at Wikipedia