The Brothers Solomon (2007/DVD-Video)

 

Picture: C+     Sound: C+     Extras: C -     Feature: C-

 

 

The cycle of shallow movies based on skits from the somehow still-on-the-air Saturday Night Live has now extended outside of the once great series as Bob Odenkirk’s dreadful The Brothers Solomon (2007) proves you can do the same stupid kind of project without the famous TV show.  That says volumes of bad things about SNL, but boy is this lame.

 

Will Arnett and Will Forte are the title characters, dorks beyond belief who somehow turned out this way despite having Lee Majors (shockingly wasted here) as a father, who go on a mission to bear him grandchildren before he likely dies.  He is already in a coma, but this will not stop them from being stupid and doing everything wrong to achieve this goal.  The joke is they are dorks and it is somehow supposed to be funny as they try in vein.  This fails and though this is not the worst of the dummies cycle, it5 comes close.  Avoid it!

 

The anamorphically enhanced 1.85 X 1 image has all kinds of motion blur and looks like it was shot in high definition, making for a presentation as dull and color-flat as a current bad sitcom, conveniently matching the lousy script.  The Dolby Digital 5.1 mix is also very flat, to the front speakers and rarely has any activity outside of the bad jokes.  Extras include a dull making of piece, boring deleted scenes, a gag featurette with no laughs and audio commentary with the leads that is also a waste of time.

 

 

-   Nicholas Sheffo