By the time a movie ends, I usually know how I feel about it.

But The Brothers Solomon left me a bit perplexed.

The film is about two brothers who, for the sake of their dying father, do everything they can to have a baby. The doctor tells the brothers that before he slipped into a coma, only minutes before they arrived, he had said he always wanted to have a grandchild.

In order to complete their mission, they go on dates, consider adoption and eventually settle on a surrogate mother.

I really hated the two main characters, John and Dean Solomon, played by Will Arnett and Will Forte, respectively. They were annoying and borderline eerie. From paying for a stranger’s groceries and then blocking her from leaving before she agrees to a date, to stalking a school playground, luring little girls into their car, these two brothers are truly creepy people.

But I found myself laughing. A lot.

Throughout it, I kept thinking to myself “This movie is so stupid,” but then something would happen and I would find myself laughing, and realized I was enjoying myself.

Arnett (from Arrested Development) and Forte (from Saturday Night Live) try too hard to be funny. With an ‘80s/’90s pop soundtrack playing in the background, they act almost like caricatures and do things that in the real world would be considered despicable, such as stop at the video store to contest late charges on an emergency rush to visit their ailing father at the hospital.

Not only that, they’re trying to have a baby for all the wrong reasons. Do they care about bringing a new life into the world and caring for it? No, they just want to please dear old Dad.

And the beautiful neighbor, played by Swedish beauty Malin Akerman, who rejects the advances of John, is seen as cold and unfriendly – but any woman in her right mind would be creeped out by such advances as constantly knocking on her door, invading her personal space, and inviting her for dinner-for-two in the middle of the hallway.

The bottom line is that this movie is funny despite the two brothers. The action, the gags and jokes are all hilarious.

I just wish the brothers of The Brothers Solomon were as funny.