Director – Bob Odenkirk.
Cast – Will Arnett, Will Forte, Chi McBride, Kristen Wiig, Malin Åkerman, Lee Majors, Jenna Fischer.
The Brothers Solomon grossed less than $1.000,000 in the United States so it was somewhat of a surprise that it got a European release at all. This was more than likely down to the fact that it stars Saturday Night Live’s Will Arnett in his first lead role after many supporting roles playing the bad guy.
The basic premise is that of two brothers raised solely by their doting father after their mother’s premature death. Their father’s eagerness to compensate for the absence of their mother by granting them their every wish while remaining zealously optimistic results in the brothers becoming over protected man-children. When their father falls ill and slips into a deep coma the boys are lost until they decide that in order to rouse him the need to provide him with a reason to live which of course (!) is to have a baby.
The socially inept brothers are incapable of finding anyone from the opposite sex that will see them after the first date, let agree to have a baby and so they set about finding a surrogate mother.
This movie was almost universally panned by critics in the U.S. so I was expecting very little but while it won’t change your life I have to say I found myself rooting for the brothers and laughing along throughout. It plays like another Dumb and Dumber and because of this feels a little dated. After years of playing the bad guy it is nearly impossible to believe in Will Arnett as the sweet, innocent John Solomon. The Ronseal Woodstain complexion and frighteningly white teeth don’t help either. Writer and co-star Will Forte is fine as the other brother and Lee “Colt Severs” Majors is wasted as their father spending practically every non-waking moment on screen in a coma.
Malin Åkerman from The Heartbreak Kid features as the brothers beautiful but unattainable neighbour and is involved in one of the best scenes in the movie that is soundtracked by the cheese-tastic classic St. Elmo’s Fire. In fact somebody involved is obviously a fairly huge fan of the song as it is heard throughout the movie. For me St. Elmo’s Fire is a little bit of a guilty pleasure and to a certain extent the same goes for The Brothers Solomon.
The Brothers Solomon grossed less than $1.000,000 in the United States so it was somewhat of a surprise that it got a European release at all. This was more than likely down to the fact that it stars Saturday Night Live’s Will Arnett in his first lead role after many supporting roles playing the bad guy.
The basic premise is that of two brothers raised solely by their doting father after their mother’s premature death. Their father’s eagerness to compensate for the absence of their mother by granting them their every wish while remaining zealously optimistic results in the brothers becoming over protected man-children. When their father falls ill and slips into a deep coma the boys are lost until they decide that in order to rouse him the need to provide him with a reason to live which of course (!) is to have a baby.
The socially inept brothers are incapable of finding anyone from the opposite sex that will see them after the first date, let agree to have a baby and so they set about finding a surrogate mother.
This movie was almost universally panned by critics in the U.S. so I was expecting very little but while it won’t change your life I have to say I found myself rooting for the brothers and laughing along throughout. It plays like another Dumb and Dumber and because of this feels a little dated. After years of playing the bad guy it is nearly impossible to believe in Will Arnett as the sweet, innocent John Solomon. The Ronseal Woodstain complexion and frighteningly white teeth don’t help either. Writer and co-star Will Forte is fine as the other brother and Lee “Colt Severs” Majors is wasted as their father spending practically every non-waking moment on screen in a coma.
Malin Åkerman from The Heartbreak Kid features as the brothers beautiful but unattainable neighbour and is involved in one of the best scenes in the movie that is soundtracked by the cheese-tastic classic St. Elmo’s Fire. In fact somebody involved is obviously a fairly huge fan of the song as it is heard throughout the movie. For me St. Elmo’s Fire is a little bit of a guilty pleasure and to a certain extent the same goes for The Brothers Solomon.
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