Brother’s Keeper

Few mixed families could be more awkward than one formed with Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly at its outrageous center. The fact is, you’re only young once, but you can be immature for the rest of your life. The Talladega Nights co-stars reunite to prove as much as a couple of underdeveloped man-children whose autumnal parents get married, forcing the two grown men who still live at home to coexist. It’s the kind of dumb-but-smart-in-the-way-it’s-dumb comedy that is right up Ferrell’s wheelhouse. He and Reilly know they have great rapport on screen, and the fraternal glee they create by cutting up actually transfers well to audiences who ease back and allow it. After the lackluster Semi-Pro, Step Brothers could be a return to form for Ferrell and this summer’s hit comedy. The film opens July 25. sonypictures.com/movies/stepbrothers

ALSO IN JULY: Hancock (7/4), Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D (7/11), The Dark Knight (7/18), Mamma Mia! (7/18), The X-Files: I Want to Believe (7/25)