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Best movie of this year hands down!

How sad is this?

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

I truly do believe this was a very average film. Very original gags and a film improvised nicely. Acting was actually very good. The stunt with the flyover message... Simply wonderful. OK now for the bad news. Aside from the flyover gag, the film was just not funny. Lee Majors lying around as the comatose dad, nice touch , but still not funny. The film crew from top to bottom worked hard to put out a credible film. It was not a cheap ripoff or one of those dollar 99 sequel specials. The movie was simply a bad film. I am being overly generous in my rating because the acting was good and as I have mentioned original gags. Good plot- 2 dumb and dumber bros trying to adopt a kid for their dying dad, but just not funny. Oh well, better luck next time Will and Will.

This was kind of a test watch, the first film I watched through Netflix's instant watch option. I didn't expect this film to be that good, and I didn't want to waste a place in my queue for it. My instincts were correct about the film's quality. Bob Odenkirk, one of the funniest men who ever lived, hasn't had great success as a director. This film is unbelievably sloppy in both its script and its editing. I rarely notice editing mistakes, but they're rampant here. Everything would be forgiven, of course, if the film were funny. The Brothers Solomon has its moments, but, in general, it's lame. Will Arnet and Will Forte play too socially stunted brothers who want to have a baby before their coma-afflicted father passes. After failing to land women who would willingly have their children, they find a woman (Kristen Wiig) who is willing to do it for money. I can come up with a lot of things wrong with this picture. For example, Will Arnet is too much of an alpha male type to play a hopeless loser. Plus, as that alpha male type, he's better suited to jerk roles. It can be hard, if not impossible, to root for him. And Forte is funny enough on Saturday Night Live, but he never stood out. He comes off as weaker than Arnet, and, even if I'm not laughing at Arnet, he ends up burying Forte. Wiig is usually a pretty funny gal, but she's cast here as the straight man. The only actor who consistently gets laughs is Chi McBride as Wiig's enormous African American boyfriend with a foul mouth. Swears may be cheap laughs, but when watching a comedy with a dearth of laughs, I'll take the cheap ones.

A popular comedy formula is to replace the expected tone of a story with another one. The Monty Python Troupe excelled at this by making everyday mundane situation outrageously ridiculous or vice versa or pretty much any other bizarre switcheroo that you can think of. "The Brothers Solomon" takes anxiety from one of the big steps on life, having a baby, and replaces it with some serious awkwardness.The titular characters, two brothers who were raised in the North Pole away from civilization and are therefore socially inept try to find a surrogate mother and give their father his last wish: a grandchild. The father is in a coma so the two bumbling brothers, John and Dean, are out in their own. The result is wonderfully... well, awkward. From finding the woman to be their surrogate mother to figuring out how to impregnate her, from arguments at the sperm bank to all the way to baby training and every step in between is hilariously quirky - "Should we put locks on the locks in case the baby learns the combinations?" It is a sense of humor that will not please everyone, since the protagonists are funny not because they snap funny lines and manage to do impossible things (like Bugs Bunny surviving a long fall) but because they can't do anything right. Yet this redundancy of wrong doing is never redundant here, but rather it becomes the movie's very enjoyable quirky theme. And that's what a good comedy needs. --- 8/10BsCDb Classification: 13+ --- profanity, crude content

Will Forte and Will Arnett make for a duo of blubbering idiots. These two go out of their way to make things as crazy and difficult as possible. Who ever heard of going to Craigslist and hiring somebody to have your baby? Well, maybe you have but I have not.The 'boys' go all out and I mean all out. The hospital equipment in the apartment, the over-done baby's room, the super-long skywriting. All of it was original and somewhat funny.Its not a bad movie. But a third Will, Will Ferrell, would have made it 10X better. Heck, even adding Bill Cosby would have made it better. But I doubt he would have allowed himself to be in this after Leonard Part 6. Overall, slightly above average. "C+"