Fratellastri a 40 anni

APPROFONDIMENTI | Will Ferrell e John C. Reilly si cimentano nei ruoli di due fratelli insolenti e infantili.

Storia di una famiglia (dis)funzionale alla risata

Le famiglie è dove la nostra nazione trova la speranza, dove le ali prendono sogni". La strampalata dichiarazione di George W. Bush, messa alla berlina dalla stampa di tutto il mondo, è stata scelta per rappresentare l'esilarante commedia di Adam McKay che vede Will Ferrell e John C. Reilly tornare a lavorare in coppia dopo il successo di Ricky Bobby: La storia di un uomo che sapeva contare fino a uno. Cresciuti in ambienti diversi - Ferrell ha mosso i primi passi sul palco televisivo del celebre "Saturday Night Live" dove si è fatto conoscere per l'imitazione di Bush, Reilly ha esordito sul grande schermo con Brian De Palma in Vittime di guerra - i due attori hanno percorso strade alternative prima di ritrovarsi a quarant'anni a dividere la scena.

APPROFONDIMENTI | Will Ferrell e John C. Reilly ancora insieme.

Il film

Will Ferrell e John C. Reilly, che hanno fatto coppia nel grande successo Ricky Bobby: La storia di un uomo che sapeva contare fino a uno, sono di nuovo insieme in Fratellastri a 40 anni, per la regia di Adam McKay (Ricky Bobby, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy). In Fratellastri a 40 anni, Ferrell interpreta Brennan Huff, un trentanovenne che lavora saltuariamente e vive con la madre, Nancy (Mary Steenburgen). Reilly incarna invece Dale Doback, un quarantenne disoccupato che sta col padre Robert (Richard Jenkins).

Once More to the Well of Goofball Comedy

“Step Brothers,” which was produced by Judd Apatow and his and Will Ferrell’s manager, Jimmy Miller, is nowhere near as good, funny or polished as “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby,” the Nascar spoof directed by Adam McKay, which was also produced by Mr. Apatow and Mr. Miller. In that movie, Mr. Ferrell and John C. Reilly play best, not terribly bright, friends. Here, again directed by Mr. McKay, they play not terribly bright slackers turned brothers turned friends, who, after their parents wed, generate a lot of noisy, fitfully amusing, ultimately tiresome havoc. »

Non basta un'idea (una sola) per fare un film

"Frangins malgré eux" : quadras régressifs pour farce loufoque et désinhibée Conservatisme et obscénité, c'est ce qui semble définir les films produits par Judd Apatow, figure essentielle de la nouvelle comédie hollywoodienne. Frangins malgré eux, de l'Américain Adam McKay, ne démentira pas cette impression. Deux quadragénaires vivant l'un chez sa mère, l'autre chez son père, sont contraints de cohabiter lorsque leurs parents se marient. Les hostilités se traduisent par divers coups bas tant affligeants qu'amusants. »

In 'Step Brothers,' comedy gets older -- if not better

If you put the collected works of Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and Judd Apatow in a pot, boiled off the excess and let the remainder cool, you'd have something very much like " Step Brothers." The story of two overgrown adolescents who become sudden kin when their single parents marry, it's "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" with two 40-year-old virgins, "Knocked Up" without the knocking up. Produced by Apatow and directed by McKay, who co-wrote the script with Ferrell, "Step Brothers" is not a retread so much as a reduction, stripping away the magical pretext of "Elf" and the period trappings of "Anchorman" to get to the heart of the thriving man-boy genre. »

Starting at infantile and regressing hysterically from there, Step Brothers flies on the comic chemistry of Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly. They riffed on the baby Jesus in Talladega Nights. Now they're goofing on grown men who stay babies. Are you ready to see Ferrell rub his hairy nut sack on Reilly's drum set? You better be. Step Brothers, directed by Adam McKay from a story by McKay, Ferrell and Reilly (so you know who to hold responsible), pushes its R rating to the merry max. I'd better explain. »