Passionate and saucy comedy.

A politically incorrect but often hilarious jam session, in which men and women trade insults like musical licks.

The movie's a mixed bag, but worth seeing for the good stuff, which is a lesson in how productive it can be to allow characters to say what they might actually say.

The pace is fast, many of the performers are attractive, and even the end-credits montage is zippier than usual.

A lively, affectionate and well-acted romantic comedy, takes a raunchy look at relationships from the black male perspective.

What saves the film is the charm and earthy humor the actors wring from the spectacle of these four guys getting an early jump on their midlife crises.

Overall, The Brothers is glossy fun, but it should have given us more ideas and energy.

A feeling man's buddy story that's user-friendly to men and women alike.

Hughley and Jones have an explosively comic chemistry together; her kooky, open-faced looks are a counterpoint to his whipcrack improvisations.

The psychological and psychoanalytical probes into sexual and emotional problems keep this reasonably lively.

Less like watching a movie than it is like being accosted by one.

While all of the actors are excellent, we sat up whenever Gabrielle Union walked on screen. As the ever-sensible woman who disrupts Jackson's bachelorhood, she projects the pluck, gravitas and beauty of a younger Alfre Woodard.

No matter how quotable the one-liners, the movie remains a far stretch from truth or insight.

Basically a Lifetime movie that somehow found its way into theaters.