The Brothers Solomon

Two brothers (Will Arnett, Will Forte), socially inept after being home-schooled above the Arctic Circle by their rugged father (Lee Majors), hope to reverse Dad’s terminal coma by giving him a grandchild—if they can overcome their dimwit naïvete and figure out how to do it. The script (by Forte) is one joke, and a pretty lame one at that; Bob Odenkirk’s direction is ploddingly lowbrow, and while the laughs are never as big as everybody seems to think they are, there are more of them—or at least good hearty chuckles—than you might expect. Better yet, Arnett and Forte, for all their borderline-creepy carrying on, have a kind of dorky sweetness to them that is oddly winning; when their hired surrogate mother (Kristen Wiig) says, “They’re not so bad once you get to know them,” you believe her.