The Brothers Solomon: Critic Reviews

Feels like a cheapo, soft-R retread of the dimwits' progress from Dumb and Dumber

Three gags miss for every one that hits.

Relentlessly bad taste.

It's a moderately funny premise in search of some real laughs.

This new goof might have been funnier still if the premise weren't so derivative, so just been there, done that.

The upbeat brothers are full of sweetness and love, but the script is made of taffy, and if you can chew and laugh at the same time, you're welcome to it.

Early on you realize these dorks aren't going to get any funnier, and it's a sinking feeling. Oh, no! Oh, no! Oh, noooo!

The story makes no sense, and the two lead characters are repulsive, but I must confess I laughed immoderately at this clever piece of junk.

It isn't funny.

It works, and has the makings of a cult comedy to-be.

Aforced split-the-baby comedy that proves unwise from its very conception.

Excruciatingly acted and ineptly directed.

Neither Odenkirk's limp direction nor SNL alumnus Will Forte's script -- not nearly clever enough to get away with its questionable gags about matters sexual and racial -- provides much by way of actual plot or comedy.

The film is another example of how talented TV performers often lose their way in movies.

The movie doesn't have much visual style or atmosphere, but it does have a kinder, gentler spirit than many gross-out comedies, and that makes it a likable time killer.

mostly unfunny

...benefits from the inclusion of several genuinely funny whacked-out bits of comedy...

Disappointing comedy that takes a single joke and attempts to stretch it over an entire movie, with predictably poor results.

Direction is undistinguished, and the editing leaves far too much room for laughs that never arrive.

Odd-couple comedy that tries much too hard and, in other ways, not hard enough.

A series of musty gross-out gags ranging in sophistication from sperm bank hijinks to sloppy man-on-man kissing, Bob Odenkirk's cringemaker-with-a-heart is a ragged Xerox of Dumb And Dumber that seems incredibly creaky after the summer of Superbad.

Oh, brother! Firing blanks in every direction, this tedious vehicle for two hard-to-like comedians is stillborn from the off.

A dismal gross-out comedy.