Review: What Idiots Messed Up a Promising ‘Our Idiot Brother’?

Great cast and occasional laughs aren’t enough to save a comedy that veers from sweet to mean-spirited — especially when it comes to the female characters

From the poster, you might think “Our Idiot Brother” has all the elements for a great comedy — Paul Rudd starring as a sweet, stoned doofus, opposite a cast of hilarious heavyweights like Elizabeth Banks, Emily Mortimer, Steve Coogan, Zooey Deschanel, Rashida Jones and Adam Scott.

But something went wrong along the way — while the film does offer its share of zingy one-liners and entertaining character moments, the final result is a movie that can’t decide if it wants to be snarkily sweet or mean and misanthropic.

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