Red Band Trailer for the Ferrell and Reilly in 'Step Brothers'

After the less-than-miraculous box office of Semi-Pro, you have to wonder if Will Ferrell can get it back. Every comic actor has that movie that slumps in the middle of their hot streak (or at the end of their hot streak), but Ferrell has chosen wisely for his follow-up, it appears. He's re-teamed with Adam McKay and John C. Reilly for the first time since Talladega Nights, and that flick made about $150 million. I doubt this will do that well because it doesn't have the NASCAR crowd attached to it, but if it's as funny as the new red band trailer, Step Brothers has a shot. The only thing standing between this and a huge box office is the fact that it's released the week after The Dark Knight - July 25th, to be exact - so it might be forced out of the spotlight a bit. Still, Anchorman is Ferrell's best movie and nobody really had enormous expectations for that back in the summer of 2004, so maybe if nobody's giving this too much hype it just might surprise people. If not, well, at least this trailer's a riot.

Comments

[RK9]

Anchorman came out in the summer of 2004, not the following year...I love lamp!

[Get The Big Picture]

Then I thank you for the timely correction.

[Ironwolf]

I got to see a research screening of this and after the third reel you want to poke your eyes out. Grown men acting like 8 yr olds is great for a two and a half minute trailer but after an hour its VERY over worked.

As a side note, a lot of this trailer wasn't in the version I saw. So maybe they reworked it.