‘Rick and Morty’ Fans Just Discovered That ‘Two Brothers’ Is a Real Movie
A number of animated series have introduced entirely fake, yet highly memorable movies into their fictional universes. For example, The Simpsons gave us titles such as The Bloodening, Hail to the Chimp and McBain: Let’s Get Silly. Similarly, Bob’s Burgers debuted the Lone Wolf and Cub-esque samurai film franchise Hawk & Chick. And best of all, South Park depicted a number of depressingly plausible comedies in which Rob Schneider undergoes several dumb transformations.
Then there’s Rick and Morty, which once devoted an entire episode to showcasing fake pop-culture. Season One’s “Rixty Minutes” found Rick tiring of The Bachelor and hooking up a cable box that enables the family to watch TV channels from infinite realities across the universe, including a “movie about a guy eating shit,” an ultra violent Antiques Roadshow and the hit sitcom Schmoo’s the Schmloss.
Not to mention the version of Saturday Night Live that stars a piece of toast, a man painted silver who makes robot noises and Bobby Moynihan.
But the most significant piece of extra-dimensional entertainment to come out of the episode was the increasingly convoluted trailer for the action movie Two Brothers, aka Alien Invasion Tomato Monster Mexican Armada Brothers Who Are Just Regular Brothers Running in A Van From An Asteroid and All Sorts of Things the Movie.
While Two Brothers may have just been an animated translation of disgraced Rick and Morty creator Justin Roiland’s “improv bullshit,” it’s subsequently taken on a life of its own. For one thing, there are, apparently, real posters for this 100 percent fictional movie.
And one YouTuber cut together a live-action version of the trailer, mostly using clips from the Bad Boys movies, and some shots from Team America: World Police.
Recently, though, a Rick and Morty fan on Reddit pointed out that Two Brothers is actually a real movie, as evidenced by a photo of a stack of DVDs.
Sadly, the movie in question (in our reality at least) is not about two brothers who battle giant cats and elderly women, but rather, two brothers who are tigers. It’s a family film that was released in 2004, and its human cast includes Guy Pearce and Freddie Highmore, who, we probably don’t have to tell you don’t play post-apocalyptic badasses dodging tomato cannons.
While the real Two Brothers has little in common with the fake one from Rick and Morty, one element from the ridiculous trailer was turned into a movie. As some fans pointed out at the time, Roland Emmerich’s 2021 disaster flick Moonfall seemingly lifted the whole “moon crashing into the Earth” plot point from Two Brothers.
In retrospect, Moonfall was perhaps a tad less subtle.
