Brothers

The movie is cute, and individually many of the characters are played to perfection. Honestly, I'm just happy to see Brendan Frasier. Love him, and he does the crazy well. The only thing that kept me from enjoying this movie is Josh Brolin. Sorry Mr. Brolin, i heart you, and you and Mr. Dinklage, actually had good chemistry, and your lines and delivery were good, but you are not 40 something. Based on the story timeline, you guys should have been about 45, Dinklage pulls this off way better than you. For me it just didn't work, I just couldn't get past it. In addition each character, was just that , a character, and played to over the top, which fits this type of movie perfectly, and you can't take it too seriously, but then there are times it just misses. You see what they were going for, and ...it just doesn't make it. Peter Dinklage is the only reason this movie is worth seeing. There are some impressive dialogues in the movie, so if you are serious movie fan, that like to take the higher road, analyze, evaluate, feel the emotions, this might be the one for you. There is certainly opportunity there. If you are looking for pure entertainment, I can see where a certain mind set would find it funny. Mostly, i didn't hate it, but I didn't love it either, again, sorry Mr. Brolin, but just couldn't get past your casting.

I loved the last 1/3 of the movie, but the rest was a little hard to get through. But a great Sunday, low expectation movie. Lol.

Many of the most negative reviews that have been posted here have the same keywords, the same key phrases, and criticize the same talking points, as if a single person wrote multiple reviews as a personal vendetta, for whatever reason. This movie is actually pretty enjoyable. It's an intentionally mindless farce comedy with some original ideas, great character actors, and novel plot twists. Peter Dinklage and Josh Brolin have natural chemistry and great dialogue to work with. Perhaps they were allowed to improvise some of their exchanges. Brendan Fraser plays his character perfectly, note for note, and seems to be having a great time. M. Emmet Walsh appears in a few scenes, just long enough to remind people that he is a king of character actors. It's a mindless comedy that is intentionally ridiculous, and it works.

There's a lot of pretty scathing reviews here. I read some before I started this and set my sights appropriately low. Maybe that's why I kinda liked it?

There was a lot of what people complained about - inconsistent tone, crass humor, slapstick scenes, overly stupid characters doing stupid things, predictable outcome.

Yes, all of the above.

I still laughed at a lot of it. Probably because the main actors played their parts to perfection. No matter the reason, if you laugh and enjoy something, go with it and don't think about why you liked it.

This is one of those movies. Don't overanalyze it. Don't worry about what others think. Just go with the ride.

So many issues with this movie. Was everyone in this just bored and couldn't get another job, so they lowered themselves to do this? Every one of the actors in this movie are legendary in their own right, but this movie? They just proved that no matter how good of an actor you are, a bad script, bad directing, and low budget can cause great actors to be bad actors.

This movie was almost cartoonish and presented itself as if a child wrote it.

I'm all for silly and mindless comedies ... if they're funny. This movie was not funny. It was definitely mindless and barely cut the mustard at being silly. It was more absurd and overly exaggerated than anything else.

I enjoyed this movie. It was kind of a modern remake of Twins with Schwarzenegger and Devito. It was more violent and raunchy than Twins but that's the modern part. Dinklage and Brolin are both great actors and seemed to have good chemistry on screen together. The story is mostly a road trip adventure with a bunch of run-in vignettes and it kept me entertained.

The 5ish rating it currently has doesn't do it justice. Brothers had its flaws, the worst of which was wasting the great talent of Marisa Tomei who deserved a better character/writing. But it also had genuinely funny to endearing moments that were worth the watch.