Columbia Pictures has released a new red band movie trailer for Adam McKay’s new comedy Step Brothers. Will Ferrell and John C Reilly star as two spoiled guys become competitive stepbrothers after their single parents get hitched. While I’m usually a huge advocate of red band movie trailers (my argument is that they usually represent more accurate marketing), I don’t believe this new advertisement offers much more than a couple of swears. But it does have a few good moments not shown in the previous trailer most of which I’m pretty sure didn’t require the red band header. The bunk bed scene still makes me chuckle out loud, even though it’s clearly derivative. Tell me what you think in the comments below!
Watch the Red Band Trailer in High Definition on Apple.com. Step Brothers hits theaters on July 25th 2008.
May 27th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
that was great, and holy mary fucking steenburgen?!?! she looks sexy as hell!! aged like a fine, ahh you know.
May 27th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
hahaha i liked that
May 27th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
That was actually pretty funny.
May 27th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
still not convinced, but its an improvement over the other preview
May 27th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Looks pretty bad, in my opinion…made me chuckle in a few places, but not nearly as much as say, the Pineapple Express red band trailer
May 27th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
I can’t wait for this to come on TV!
May 27th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
No.
Semi-Pro was lame, this will suck too.
May 27th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
All it needs is Ben Stiller to complete this trifecta of hilarity.
May 27th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
Eh I am artsy as all get out, but I will go and watch this and laugh and laugh. Then when me and my friends go out for a drink we will quote it. Then people from across the bar will quote things back to us and we will make new friends with other cool LA bar people. Thank you Movies.
May 27th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
I really think this movie looks like shit. People will go in hoping for the best and come out dissapointed yet again. I thought semi pro might have been good, but was wrong. I wasn’t at all enticed by this trailer, but hey I could be wrong again.
May 27th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
Wow looks good.
As always will ferrell is stupidly entertaining.
May 27th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
I saw a test screening and of was awesome.
May 27th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
i actually was more impressed with the other one, but i liked the new tuxedo remark from the interviewer
May 27th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
We all knew Semi-Pro was going to suck. This is sheer brilliance.
May 27th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
This looks slightly better than the last preview, but nothing like Pineapple Express.
I’m afraid that comedies are going for the “SuperBad” approach by winning over fans simply by dropping F-Bombs every 20 seconds. SuperBad was outstanding. But I wish comedies would just stick to comedy and use profanity only when necessary. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a hardcore Christian or anything, I swear all the time. But it looks like in this preview they were trying too hard and it was just unnecessary in some scenes.
May 27th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
While I’m sure this movie will probably bomb big time, John C Reilly kills in this trailer. I love him as an actor but always thought he was out of place in the fratpack movies. If I have enough time/weed I’ll probably give this one a go.
May 27th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
good lord, mary steenburgen looks hot as hell. i’ll watch it for her.
May 28th, 2008 at 12:28 am
is it the new studio marketing strategy to show the whole film now before its released, iron man, hulk and now this piace of decroted crap i’ve forgotten already. and what the hell is with clara clayton - work done? she looks more ghastly than nicole kidman
May 28th, 2008 at 2:17 am
The end of that trailer really turned around and kicked ass! Maybe it was helped by LCDS or something.
May 28th, 2008 at 6:20 am
I enjoy movies like Kip does.
May 28th, 2008 at 6:47 am
I’ve been thoroughly unimpressed with Will Ferrell, aside from some of the Funny or Die skits, here as of late.
May 28th, 2008 at 9:29 am
this looks better than i thought. as old as the ferrell style of humor is getting, he’s doing it really well here.
May 28th, 2008 at 9:57 am
I love Gillian Vigman. I think she is funnier than Judd Apatow’s hack wife. I laughed my ass off when John C Reilly peaked his head around Will in the interview. Worst case, DVD rental.
May 28th, 2008 at 9:59 am
If this had been constructed as BIG 2 - with some magical reason two tween boys became MEN overnight, then it would have worked perfectly–
May 28th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
“This house is a prison…on planet bullshit…in the galaxy this sucks big camel dick!”
How could you not want to see that played out on the big screen?
June 21st, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Bunch of naysaying naysayers here. That looked hilarious, and that is my criteria for going to comedies. At least admit it has more potential than Semi-Pro (which still had some great scenes IMO). Or don’t, I don’t care.
June 21st, 2008 at 7:37 pm
this movie is going to rock out loud, some people need to not take things so seriously. it’s obviously not going to be a great movie. but it’ll make you laugh out loud and that’s why you go to comedies.
July 3rd, 2008 at 10:11 pm
Oh boi!! i sure hopewe did not just sea the whooooooole movie thurr, folk. i hate when that happens, so much,. , and plus where did what happen to the other breother that was supposed to play ebert.
July 5th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
what is it rated?
August 15th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
this was by far one of the funniest movies i have ever seen. ive already went and watched it 3 times. my friends and i quote it alllll the time!