elvis316 With so much fantastic talent in this movie, it is very difficult to believe how bad this is. The actors and the director in this production are among the funniest in the business. Amazingly, the movie is not very funny.There ARE a couple of good bits--namely the plane banner message--but overall a waste of time. Just one bad joke carried out to a sublimely ridiculous extreme. I have to believe that there was a better film on paper than ended up on the screen. I look forward to much better work from everyone involved in this, and I guess since this is seven years old by now? They have done much better! They can't all be great movies, I guess, but don't waste your time on this dog.

elshikh4 After the financial success of Dumb & Dumber (1994) as if a branch in the buddy comedy has been established. A branch where the comedy centers on not Mickey and Goofy, but 2 goofy goofs. Aside from growing as easy and tacky formula, I see that more than one goofy isn't a good idea in the first place. So in general those movies don't interest me. The Brothers Solomon though did interest me yet for not the right reasons ! Here's a possible nominee for the worst comedy ever. It has a real sick sense of humor (cutting off the electricity so the dad might die, imagining accidents for the baby, killing the fiancée by a bus, etc all of that made me disgusted and horrified), some of the most unfunny but noxious lines ever written ("when you poop that child", "enter a woman" ??!), and it's starring the silliest man in the universe : Will Arnett. Well, I can stand Steven Seagal in a comedy, but Arnett ? NOOOOOOOOOOOO !By the way during all the time Will Arnett and Will Forte look, especially Arnett, so gay. Enough to say that when I watched the channel's trailer for the movie I thought it's a comedy about 2 gay men who want to adopt a child to win something. Maybe that look was intended for them as ironic; while portraying 2 desperate-to-get-marry men. However it didn't make me laugh !Just look at the opening credits. It's all about the 2 leads' smiling faces ?!!! When you make an intro like this it mirrors an excessive confidence, not to mention being so boring and a prophecy of ridiculousness. In that campy manner the movie walks. It thinks itself so comic, with talented charismatic stars, that anything they may do would hit rightly, while it's a wrong thinking form the start !The only survivor is – strangely – one heck of a scene. Yes, as you have guessed earlier I'm sure, it's the message by the plane. So finally this movie "knows" about comedy. The real cleverness and originality of that part must make you ask why the rest of the movie looked the way it was ?!! In the Dumb & Dumber movies lately, The Brothers Solomon is the most ugly and tormenting. It's rather made by the Dumb & Dumber of the movie-makers. I hated watching it. It's not about being unlaughable comedy, it's about being unbearable movie ! P.S : Did you notice the movie's characters' love for going to the bathroom ? In any case, don't ask why !

moselekm I usually don't write reviews for comedies, because they usually don't deserve one. These days, we know our actors and can say, "Yea, it's going to contain this sort of comedy, if I liked what he (or they) did last year, I will love this," and that isn't to put down comedies at all, they are made that way and they're hilarious (as most comedians usually write or co-write and produce their films these days). This film, which I never even heard whimpered or scoffed of anywhere, deserves a review, because I don't think many people paid it any mind.The film was written by Forte (Dean Solomon), a recent SNL personality (I never watch it personally). I never knew his comedy style, but the two brothers, (John Solomon played by Arnett) both have symmetrical characters who play off each other as pretty much two men who were raised in a sheltered home and pretty much see everything in a very positive light.Their own characters weren't even that annoying, as one might think, and I am easily annoyed by characters. They were straight forward guys who would ball-bust people with a smile on their face. The comedy is situational to them pretty much completing scenes with their personalities (playful 'burning' of each other with wise cracks or situations that happened to them and getting by spotty and racy situations by their pure ignorance to their offenses).Simply put, if you like comedy, you will like this movie. It has a very good modern plot with a twist and two characters who are hilarious. If you liked Dumb and Dumber you should be reminded of the quaint quirky humor back in the 90's, with this new fresh look at situational comedy.The plot also keeps moving, unlike some comedies that catch a snag. This movie is continuously in motion with pretty much trial and error scenes that are all a laugh.

zetes 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.