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How unfortunate
that The Brothers Solomon, an affable comedy about two
brothers trying to make a baby (not together, of course) despite
the fact that they are totally unprepared to be parents, has
been released on the same day that the story of a Cincinnati
woman killing her infant by leaving it in a hot car has broken.
I don’t mean to make light of such a serious issue by comparing
it to such a silly film; in fact, I believe that it is
disgraceful that the woman isn’t going to be prosecuted for her
evil doing. However, it should be noted that the viewer’s
knowledge of the occurrence makes The Brothers Solomon
seem far less humorous than it likely would’ve been a week ago.
During a scene in which stars Will Forte and Will Arnett each
prepare for fatherhood by catching baby-dolls as the other drops
them from stories above, the whole experience has an eerie
quality about it. What might’ve come across as amusing when
The Brothers Solomon was being filmed now just serves as a
reminder of all the idiotic, unfit parents that exist in the
world.
That all being
said, The Brothers Solomon wouldn’t be a comedy worth
writing home about even if it didn’t bear the aforementioned,
strange topicality. A great many passages in the film remain
unaffected by the recent events and nonetheless prove only
intermittently funny. For Forte and Arnett, The Brothers
Solomon represents only a mild (albeit raunchier) step-up
from their regular shtick seen every weekend on “Saturday Night
Live”. Much like recent episodes of that program, the movie was
clearly made with pleasant intentions, but never achieves a
memorable level of laugh-out-loud hilarity. In three or four
months, The Brothers Solomon will make for a perfectly
acceptable rental. Until then, moviegoers’ time is better spent
watching more-inspired material.
-Danny Baldwin,
Bucket Reviews
Review Published
on: 9.7.2007
Screened on:
9.10.2007 at the Krikorian Vista Village Metroplex 15 in Vista,
CA.
The Brothers Solomon is rated R and
runs 93 minutes.
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