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Dale and Brennan decide they need investors for their company and decide to make a music video but Dale tells Brennan he needs to hear him sing to which we get a pretty funny rendition of a Bonnie Raitt song from Brennan, which Dale praises. 

Next we are at a restaurant for Derek’s birthday.  Alice surprises Dale in the bathroom and another awkward but funny moment as the two have sex and then she proceeds to pee standing up in the urinal.  After all of that Dale and Brennan announce their company and show their music video which is a rap called “Boats and Ho’s” (pretty funny).  The whole time Robert notices they are on his sailboat and ask who was driving the boat and at that moment we see the boat crash into some rocks.

On the ride home Robert is furious and pretty much looses it.  Next cut to Christmas Eve, you can tell the family is not happy and Robert goes off to have a drink at the local Cheesecake Factory.  He returns later that night and him and Nancy have a little fight and Dale and Brennan, who are both sleepwalkers (there is another sleepwalking scene earlier in the film with is great) decide in their sleeping state to begin to through around all the presents and even bring the Christmas tree into their parents bedroom.  Robert can’t take it anymore and decides to wake the sleepwalking boys (even though Nancy begs him not to) and in their confusion after being woken up they throw Robert down the stairs. 

The next day at dinner we learn that Nancy and Robert have decided to divorce and move out and Robert tells Dale and Brennan that it is completely their fault to which they begin crying.  The next day Robert and Nancy move out and Dale and Brennan are left at the house with one day to figure out what to do.  That night they go back to hating each other and have another fight which ends with Brennan burying Dale alive (he gets out of the grave) and they roll around fighting and eventually pass out on the lawn.  They wake up and decide to go their separate ways.

Next we see the two trying to get jobs and be grown ups.  Brennan goes to work for his brother and Dale gets a job as a caterer.  Both get apartments and we even see Dale reading a Montell Williams motivational book and going to bed at 8:45pm.  Things seems to be going alright for the two and Brennan even asks Derek if he can take on the task of organizing the Cantina Wine Mixer (a big party to gain new clients for the helicopter company) to which Dale says sure because when he messes up he’ll be able to fire him.

Cut to the Cantina Wine Mixer, which has turned out great.  Brennan has even hired the catering company Dale works for and both Robert and Nancy are there.  Everything seems to be going well.  Horatio Sans heads the band hired for the party and they only sing 80’s Billy Joel songs.  One of Derek’s a-hole friends keeps yelling out for them to play Billy Joel songs from other decades to which Horatio freaks out on him and a fight breaks out and the band leaves and Derek yells at Brennan and fires him for ruining the party.

Robert rushes over to Brennan and Dale and urges them to go up on the stage and start having fun again, he can’t stand seeing them so grown up and miserable.  Dale goes up and starts playing the drums to which the audience starts booing and throwing food.  Brennan eventually joins him and starts singing an opera song (and forgive me I do not know the songs name but it has been sung by both Andrea Bocelli and Josh Groban I believe).  Brennan’s voice and rendition of the song is so apparently touching that the audience loves it, Robert and Nancy fall back in love, Derek remembers when him and Brennan were young and best friends, and both Alice and Brennan’s therapist (who is there) have short and funny fantasies about their respective men, Dale and Brennan. 

The Cantina Wine Mixer is a success.  Robert and Nancy are back together, Derek gives Brennan a half-apology and the two (kinda) hug and Dale tells Alice they can’t be together.  Cut to a few months later the whole family is at dinner and this time Dale and Brennan are the center of attention and telling a story about their new successful karaoke business and even Brennan’s therapist/girlfriend is there.  Robert and Nancy tell Dale and Brennan a surprise waits outside for them and when they go out they see Roberts old sailboat made into a new tree house for them.  Dale and Brennan are overcome with joy and rush to the tree house followed by Derek and his two kids. In the tree house the two find more gifts including pirate hats, nudie magazines, and even Chewbacca masks.  Everyone is laughing and happy.  Brennan’s therapist tells Nancy and Robert that this is totally insane to which they agree and the movie ends.

End Credits

A little after the credits roll there is a short scene where Dale and Brennan return to the playground in a helicopter and proceed, in a fairly funny scene, to beat up the kids who beat them up earlier in the film

 

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