Step Brothers director Adam McKay says that the movie’s two main characters are representative of most adults today. After its release in 2008, Step Brothers immediately became a phenomenon and soared stars Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly to new degrees of fame. The monstrously quotable satire features Ferrell and Reilly as Brennan and Dale, individually, two moderately aged men who find themselves trapped under the same roof after their parents get married.
In a new interview with the LA Times, McKay thinks about Step Brothers and claims that, in many ways, it’s the most judicious movie in his filmography. He says that a portion of the things adults are doing today – particularly in response to having to wear a mask out in the open – are significantly more silly than the things done by Brennan and Dale in the film. Look at McKay’s full remark underneath:
“I would say the most prophetic ended up being Step Brothers — that’s the most like the world we’re living in. Step Brothers was a living cartoon when it came out, [and now] it’s literally evident. At the point when you see giant adults screaming and kicking over furniture because they have to wear a mask, that’s actually more ridiculous than Step Brothers.”
While the earlier movies of his career, for example, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Anchorman, and The Other Guys play largely like senseless however entertaining comedies, it turns out to be clear that, as his career continues, McKay is interested in using his work to investigate and investigate social, political, and economic issues. His movies have remained comedic in tone however have, as of late, been leaning all the more heavily into drama based on real-world concerns. While there is a component of metaphor to what McKay is saying as far as Step Brothers being his most prophetic film, there is by all accounts a great deal of truth to the notion that a film about two man-kids throwing tantrums and struggling to get along is representative of the number of adults conduct themselves today.