This Summer, there were three summer comedies that really stuck out as the big ticket selling comedies: Step Brothers, The Pineapple Express and Tropic Thunder. While I haven’t gotten the chance to see Tropic Thunder yet (although I plan on seeing it soon), I was able to see Step Brothers and The Pineapple Express…on consecutive nights.

Step Brother was a Will Ferrell movie. That’s basically as simply as I can put it. It was ridiculous and over-the-top and basically featured Will Ferrell and John C. Riley running around, making immature jokes about private parts and such and overall acting like children. Which can be funny…but only for a while. Basically it was the type of movie where after ten minutes I was laughing hysterically, thinking this was going to be one of the funniest movies ever, but by the end I was thinking…hmm, they’re still doing that. I guess if this was the first Will Ferrell movie ever to come out, it would have been better received, but after seeing him make basically the same jokes and act basically the same way in Anchorman, Talladega Nights, Blades of Glory and Semi-Pro, I’m tired of it.

Seth Rogen, star of The Pineapple Express, had better do something fast to avoid
falling into the same trap of repetitiveness that has effected Will Ferrell. While I have loved Rogen’s performances for the most part, I have found that he is getting a bit repetitive too, and while I’m not quite tired of him yet, if he keeps doing the same types of roles, I see myself growing tired of him in the future. However, my love of the Pineapple Express proved that that day has not come quite yet. Although it lacked any major substance or any message (or at least one that would improve society), it did provide constant laughs, both from situations and dialog. The most surprising performance in the movie was James Franco, who contrasted his dark role as Harry in the Spiderman movies by playing a burned-out drug dealer, and was hilarious. Overall, it was a very funny movie, definitely worth seeing if you are a fan of that type of humor.