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Director: Adam McKay

Writers: story by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay and John C. Reilly, screenplay by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay

Cinematographer: Oliver Wood

Starring: Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Mary Steenburgen, Adam Scott

Studio/Run Time: Columbia Pictures, 95 mins.

Ever since he left his starring role on Saturday Night Live for superstardom in film, Will Ferrell’s many characters have been criticized as being pretty much all the same. They’re overgrown children, unable to cope with the world. Step Brothers’ strength is admitting this and turning it around into the premise for the film. Other than childishness, there is pretty much no other aspect to his character, Brennan Huff, or John C. Reilly’s Dale Doback, to the point where they’re literally beaten up on a schoolyard by bullies. It’s no longer about being an overgrown child as a racecar driver or news anchor; instead, it’s back to the basics and better because of it.