Step Brothers Compare And Contrast

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Step Brothers and Dumb and Dumber are both comedies. They have a lot in common but they have very different endings. I will go over the movie plots and show how the movies are similar and different.

In Step Brothers, Brennan and Dale live together because their parents got married. They are full grown adults with no jobs. At first they hate each other but they bond over their mutual dislike of Brennan's younger brother Derek. They are goofballs that like swords, sharks, zombies, Chewbacca, and all sorts of nerdy things. Things were good until they crash their father’s luxury boat. This causes the parents to split up and the man boys to get jobs. Brennan works for his older brother and Dale for a food service. Although they live independent

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