Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

ShangLuda Admirable film.

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Justina The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Mihai Toma 4* Ned is a person who avoids using his mind very often but besides that he's a good man. After being sent to jail for selling weed to a police officer, he's rejected by his ex-girlfriend so he seeks refuge from his mom and three sisters.The girls never loved him, mostly because he is an idiot, so Ned is not very welcome in their homes. They start using him with different task, trying to make him work for a living but all he does is to constantly get into trouble.I didn't understand what this movie was all about. As a comedy, it wasn't actually funny, and as a drama, you can't actually feel sorry for someone who does stupid things to himself. I really can't recommend this movie as its story was as stupid as the main character and the funny part was little or none at all. A bad movie in my opinion.

morrison-dylan-fan With having seen Paul Rudd recently star in David Gordon Green's Prince Avalanche,I was pleased to get told by a family friend that he had recently picked up another title starring Rudd,which led to me getting ready to find out how idiotic this brother could be.The plot:Released from jail after serving time for supplying a cop with marijuana,Ned Rochlin heads back to the farm,where he lives with his girlfriend Janet and their dog Willie Nelson. Receiving a slightly different reaction to the one he expected,Ned is told by Janet that a she now has a new boyfriend,and that he needs to get off her land.Meeting his family for the first time in months,Ned is disappointed to find each family member (his mum and 3 sisters called Miranda, Natalie and Liz) being unable to get on with each other.Pressing on her daughter Liz and her film maker husband Dylan,Ned's mum gets Liz & Dylan to grudgingly offer him a job of helping them around the house.Initially wanting to keep their "odd" brother out of their lives,Ned soon begins to completely change his sisters lives.View on the film:Giving the film a kooky indie vibe,the gorgeous trio of Elizabeth Banks, Emily Mortimer & Zooey Deschanel each give splendid performances,with Banks showing a real relish in using Ned to get her first scoop,whilst Deschanel shows Natalie to be dazed over committing to a relationship,as Emily Mortimer gradually forces Liz out of her self-confined shell.Joining the gals,Steve Coogan gives an excellent slime-ball performance as Liz's husband Dylan.Countering Coogan's slimy performance,Paul Rudd brilliantly makes sure that Ned never becomes sappy,thanks to Rudd giving Ned a warm sincerity in improving his family members lives.Keeping away from giving the title a bad bone in its body,co-writer/ (along with Evgenia Peretz and David Schisgall) director Jesse Peretz uses Ned naivety to give the film a sweet natured innocence which allow for the hilariously seedy & peculiar aspects of Ned's family members to really shine,as they each discover that Ned is far from an idiotic brother.

jfgibson73 I feel like this movie was marketed as a more traditional big-budget comedy. The tone is more like an indie drama; I felt like I was watching Lovely And Amazing. This is not how I want to watch Paul Rudd. I will admit he inhabited the role, but my preference is to watch him play guys with the acerbic wit like in Role Models. So in this movie, he's a laid back hippie dude who bumbles through life, contrasted by his ambitious sisters, all career-driven with no time for his antics. As I said, doesn't at all feel like a Hollywood comedy; it is paced like and has the tone of a small budget character study. Ned's motivation is to get a job to earn enough money to rent a room on his ex-girlfriend's organic farm and reunite with his dog. He just wants to spend time with his family and enjoy life. As he floats between his three sisters' homes, he fouls up each of their lives with his bumbling, clueless honesty. In the end he finds happiness running a homemade candle shop and meets a nice lady. I wasn't that into it.

zardoz-13 Paul Rudd is the whole show in "Our Idiot Brother." This fish-out-of-water comedy about a hippie who gets busted for selling marijuana to a uniformed cop is hilarious. Essentially, this 90-minute laffer is a character study. Rudd is cast as Ned, a twentysomething dude with a beard and long hair. Indeed, he smokes pot and has a problem embellishing the truth. He cannot lie. He always tells the truth. Sometimes, the truth comes back to haunt Ned. For example, after he is paroled from prison, Ned tells his probation officer Omar that he smoked a joint. Omar is a starched collar kind of guy who plans to never make an indiscretion. Omar sends him back behind bars. Just before he confesses his crime to Omar, Ned summaries his frailty: "I swear, I try and do good, but I just screw up." The truth becomes a successive ripples of consequences. At one point, the naïve Ned tells one of his sisters, Miranda (Elizabeth Banks), that Liz—his other sister—is married to a filmmaker who likes to interview celebrities in the nude. Immediately, Miranda knows that Dylan (Steve Coogan) is having sex with the celebrity. Director Jamie Peretz foreshadowed this scene with an earlier one when Liz (Emily Mortimer) parades naked in front of Dylan but exerts no effect on him, except for him to comment about how bizarre her vagina appears. This leads to Liz separating from Dylan. Throughout the remainder of "Our Idiot Brother," Liz complains that letting Ned live in their house with him sabotaged her marriage with Dylan. Ned affects everybody in "Our Idiot Brother." He constitutes somewhat of a memorable film character. He is not an action hero. Neither is he an idiot savant, such as Forrest Gump. Rudd doesn't emphasize any stereotype and plays it as straight as he can without consciously behaving like an idiot.Freshman scribes Evgenia Peretz & David Schisgall have crafted a compelling low-key comedy with director Jesse Peretz about a closely knit New York state family without a father. As the protagonist, Ned brings disruption to everybody's life and he finds himself handed around from one sister to the other until the finale. Ned allows himself to be busted by Officer Washburn (Bob Stephenson) who makes Ned feel sympathetic enough toward him to overcome any sense of paranoia. Unfortunately, this separates our protagonist not only from his girlfriend Janet (Kathryn Hahn of "We're The Millers") but also from his canine pal Willie Nelson. Losing Willie Nelson has a terrible impact on Ned. Janet refuses to turn him loose and accuses Ned of animal abuse. Of course, Ned would never abuse Willie Nelson. The love that Ned and Willie share is a thing of beauty. Ned spends the entire movie struggling to reconnect with his pet pooch. Meanwhile, the lives of his sisters fall apart. Liz endures a divorce and discovers what her son, River, is interested in. Director Jesse Peretz doesn't let the storyline elude him. Comedy dominates but never in a way that tips everything into farce. He maintains a light-hearted spirit without sacrificing an indie film appeal of "Our Idiot Brother." The irony is that Ned is the least idiotic of his family. To say that Paul Rudd is the centrifugal force that holds the film together is not to denigrate Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel, and Steve Coogan. Everybody holds their own, but Rudd is the hubs rather they are the spokes.