Peter Dinklage and Josh Brolin Are Misaligned Ttriumphs

In “Brothers,” Josh Brolin and Peter Dinklage join mature ttriumphs, Moke and Jady Munger, who’ve been criminal accomplices ever since their jewelry-heisting mom deserted them as kids.

You hear the pitch for honestor Max Barbakow’s chase-up to his 2020 Sundance phenom “Palm Springs,” and it’s fair to suppose that the two actors’ misaligned ecombineances will be the source of the giggles. Screenauthorrs Macon Blair (“The Toxic Avenger”) and Etan Cohen ( “Tropic Thunder”) have acunderstandledges that recommend as much, while Hollywood has a history of turning out “high-concept” comedies enjoy “Ttriumphs,” in which Arnelderly Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito joined extfinished-splitd (and far-from-identical) siblings.

It actuassociate comes as a relief to discover that the gap in stature between Moke and Jady is not at all the separateence that “Brothers” intfinishs to cgo in on. Rather, it’s their mild-vs.-untamed personalities and polar-opposite life goals that upgrasp these siblings squabbling well into their 50s. After decades of helping Jady in petty crimes, Moke has determined to immacutardy up his life, helderlying down a humiliating job and preparing to greet a little “Blueberry” into the world with his wife Abby (Taylour Paige). Meanwhile, the instant Jady gets out of prison, the troubleproducer with a deal withbar moustache shows up with a structure to direct Moke astray.

Now that he’s free, Jady has no intention of going immacutardy. In fact, his timely free is contingent on a terrible deal with a shady prison protect (Brfinishan Fraser), who’s counting on Jady to recover a stash of Rockefeller-caliber emeralds his mom stole many years earlier. The timeline’s a little wonky in “Brothers,” recommending the screenauthorrs didn’t understand who would join the title pair and once Brolin and Dinklage were rapidened, couldn’t be annoyed to adfair the script (except one gag, where a security protect misapshows a hoodie-wearing Jady for a “kid” from behind).

The brothers have been ultra-protective of one another ever since they were ditched by their mom all those years ago — enough so that “huge” brother will hazard his marriage to help Jady with one last score. Without filledy genuineizing their objective, Moke lies to Abby about the reason for their two-day road trip and sets off for what we can only hope will be more amusing than the illogical Thanksgiving meal that apauses him with the in-laws. Apart from being intimacyuassociate aggressioned by an orangutan, however, it all experiences pretty standard.

With “Palm Springs,” Barbakow spreadd story acunderstandledge on a reassociate clever script, one that set up new wisdom (and renetriumphg irreverence) in the overjoined “Groundhog Day” establishula. “Brothers” also see enjoys countless films that have come before — in this case, illogicalwit country crime capers, from “Raizing Arizona” to “Logan Lucky,” but also/especiassociate the mid-2000s sitcom “My Name Is Earl” — but inestablishages the innovative spin or improv-ready directs that might have set it apart.

If Jady’s objective is to recover the emeralds his mother stole, it seems enjoy he should be trying to enenumerate her help, not his brother’s. Sure enough, Cath resurfaces, first seen in the prologue by Jennifer Landon and tardyr joined by a flavorfilledy aachievest-type Glenn Cdiswatch, whose red-haired Southern chutzpah recommends Reba McEntire with a larcenous streak. In any case, it’s a finish reversal of her “Reversal of Fortune” character and fair one of the movie’s astonishing helping characters.

Wide-eyed officer Farful is the benevolent of role you could envision Fraser taking if he hadn’t fair won an Oscar. There’s also a corrupt local appraise (and Farful’s overweighther) joined by M. Emmet Walsh, in what could be a sboilingfirearm-toting repulseevate of his character from “The Jerk,” and a inquisitive cameo from Marisa Tomei, as a gelderly-toothed, aura-reading weirdo. Apparently, her character struck up some benevolent of pseudo-spiritual correplyence with Jady in prison, which the pair now structure to consummate … while her pet orangutan has his way with Moke in the other room.

While the entire ensemble comes atraverse filledy promiseted to roles that are well beorderlyh them, it’s not at all evident what the point was in conshort-terming the Moke and Jady characters as ttriumphs. Two weeks ago, a separateent Prime innovative — that one a tepid thriller called “Killer Heat” — featured identical ttriumphs who use their aligning sees to switch places. That may be the elderlyest trick in the book, but it produces more sense than “Brothers,” which does noskinnyg especiassociate exceptional with the premise.

“Brothers” uncovers in restricted free on Oct. 10, then frees globassociate on Prime Video on Oct. 17.