Will Ferrell's high-concept comedies almost always rake in the dough, but overall they're pretty inconsistent. But if one director can bring out Ferrell's broadly comic side while making films of a fairly high caliber, it's Adam McKay. And pairing him once again with John C. Reilly, with whom he had real comic chemistry in Talladega Nights, is a wise decision. Which is why I was a little disappointed that this trailer wasn't funnier. Part of the problem is that the first minute or so feels pretty forced — the concept of the movie is funny, with Ferrell and Reilly as grown men who nonetheless experience the antipathy many young boys feel when they suddenly become part of the same family. But a lot of the gags don't quite work. It's not until they start getting along — "did we just become best friends?" — that it starts getting laughs. Not all of the subsequent gags work either (the brawl with the kids feels too much like a nod to the newscasters' rumble in Anchorman), but these guys work much better together as buddies than as rivals. Besides, it's entirely possible that half the jokes in the trailer won't make it into the movie, considering how much footage ends up getting cut on its way to the theatrical release.