Perfect cast and a good story

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Our Idiot Brother (2011): Dir: Jesse Peretz / Cast: Paul Rudd, Emily Mortimer, Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel, Rashida Jones: Here is a comedy that aims accusation back at the accuser. Paul Rudd plays a hippie like character named Ned who goes to jail after selling dope to a uniformed cop. He is released from jail on good behaviour and arrives on the home front only to learn that his ex-girlfriend has taken it over and will not even allow him to have his beloved dog. He goes home where he drives all three of his sisters bonkers turning their lives upside down. Emily Mortimer plays a housewife whose documentary filmmaker husband is cheating on her. Elizabeth Banks plays a snide journalist whose feelings for a male colleague are concealed. She is set to do a story for which she attempts to expose personal elements of her subject that was believed to be rendered off topic. Zooey Deschanel plays a lesbian comedian who ends up having an affair with a male and ends up pregnant. Director Jesse Peretz might have aided with inspiration from The Big Lebowski but its soft humour does give it charm. Rudd is charming in his sincerity who brings havoc everywhere he goes. Mortimer, Banks and Deschanel plays fairly unlikable sisters whose appeal comes at the expense of their lives being overturned through Ned's innocent meddling. Colorful supporting characters arise including Rashida Jones who plays a woman involved with Deschannel. The ending delivers a bogus giddy happy outcome that comes off as false but it also represents the theme where finding flaws in others is reversed into self examination. Score: 8 / 10

After Our Idiot Brother was over, I appreciated it the same way I did Identity Thief. Both movies were marketed as comedies... Yet, I didn't laugh very much. What I DID like though, was the way the characters were written in the two films. In Identity Thief, the jerk criminal played by Melissa McCarthy goes through a great personality transformation over the course of the movie, which is surprising, convincing and very sweet. If I ever watch it again, it's that I'd concentrate on... Not the negligible attempts at humour.In Our Idiot Brother, the chap mentioned in the title as portrayed by Paul Rudd is a fool, yes... In his very first scene he sells cannabis to a police officer. IN UNIFORM. After his prison sentence has elapsed, he suffers the humiliation of losing his girlfriend and dog, before being forced to move in with his mother. At this point, observing his general idiocy and habit of letting people walk all over him, my empathy level for this guy stood at absolutely zero. Then, his three sisters enter stage left.ALL of them have problems. One is a lesbian who's just fallen pregnant from a fling with a man. Another is married to Alan Partridge, who's banging a ballerina. The last one either gets a HOT story for her work as a journalist, or she might face the sack. Yep, it's yet ANOTHER dysfunctional All-American family (Still, watching a feature length flick about The Waltons would be rather dull, wouldn't you agree?)Despite their own mounting difficulties, each one's opinion of their dopey brother range from tolerance to outright embarrassment. Yet, due to his happy-go-lucky attitude and general earnestness, he somehow helps each one out (albeit unintentionally for the most part) by just being his goofy, charming self. Not that they recognise this, though... And he eventually becomes a conduit for their own insecurities and frustrations, until it looks like the entire family might break up.With a superb cast and witty, truthful dialogue, Our Idiot Brother, in it's quite short running length barely puts a foot wrong, in giving us a bunch of people who's lives we care about and proving that sometimes the idiot of the family can be the smartest one. I must say that being around someone like this all the time in real life would drive me CRAZY... I like those who are a little more confrontational and a little less eager to please. But you can't deny the impact he has on changing the lives of his siblings for the better... And for that alone, he earns my respect.Very well done... 7/10

This film tells how a man who is so kind and honest that he manages to mess everyone's life up, including his own.Ned is a young man with three sisters, and he goes to jail because he gave marijuana to a policeman who asks for it. He might appear very stupid to people, and indeed he is portrayed to be an idiot. However, it does beg the question whether an honest existence and a simplistic life is an undesirable or even a wrong life. I also had the thought that Ned in fact is living happily, unlike his three sisters who think he is stupid. The ending is a sweet and touching one, even though it is rather poorly developed and it feels like a very sudden paradigm shift for the characters involved. Overall, "Our Idiot Brother" is quite enjoyable as it is funny throughout, and is touching in the end.

it is very Casual , Lite and Warm hearted movie. i loved it .Story is Nice and very causal . It is a fresh new story i seen so far .It's not like a Idiot Brother but a innocent , honest Brother facing difficult situation in this Cunning world.But at end it taught the real way to live the life , with truth, honest and with full of love It also tells about much more about family , as it says family always stands with each other in NEED.I really like the movie Screen play and story writing as it was practical and does not let me Bore any moments.it is one time good watch.