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Beerfest (2006)

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Reviews Counted: 102 Fresh: 40  Rotten:62 Average Rating: 5/10
 
Consensus: Beerfest features some laugh-inducing gags, but is too long and the pacing too uneven to form a coherent, functioning comedy.
 

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Runtime: 1 hr 56 mins

Theatrical Release: Aug 25, 2006 Wide

Box Office: $19,037,418

Synopsis: With a title that insures against accusations of false advertising, BEERFEST is a raunchy and genial amalgamation of ANIMAL HOUSE, STRANGE BREW, FIGHT CLUB, and every clichéd sports film ever made. Written by and starring comedy troupe Broken Lizard (SUPER TROOPERS, CLUB DREAD) and... With a title that insures against accusations of false advertising, BEERFEST is a raunchy and genial amalgamation of ANIMAL HOUSE, STRANGE BREW, FIGHT CLUB, and every clichéd sports film ever made. Written by and starring comedy troupe Broken Lizard (SUPER TROOPERS, CLUB DREAD) and directed by Lizard member Jay Chandrasekhar, the film is unapologetically sophomoric, never missing a chance for a belch, flatulence, bared breasts, or Cloris Leachman doing lewd things with a sausage. After the death of their bar-owning German grandfather (Donald Sutherland), Jan (Paul Soter) and Todd (Erik Stolhanske) Wolfhouse must travel to Munich to scatter his ashes. Fortunately for them, it's Oktoberfest, but the brothers aren't there very long before they embarrass themselves at a public celebration and find themselves at Beerfest, an annual international underground beer-guzzling competition. When they compete, they are disgraced by their German cousins, the Von Wolfhausens--headed by father Jurgen Prochnow--who claim that the Wolfhouses' late grandfather stole a beer recipe from them many years before. Jan and Todd return home to train for next year's competition, incorporating into their team a few old college pals--male prostitute Barry (Chandrasekhar), burly Landfill (Kevin Heffernan), and science nerd Fink (Steve Lemme). For BEERFEST to work, it's imperative that viewers find humor in exaggerated German accents. Cloris Leachman appears to be enjoying throwing all comic caution to the wind, and Prochnow gets to lampoon DAS BOOT in a funny sequence. Big, sloppy, and ridiculous--compliments in this case--all apply to the third Broken Lizard feature, which is sure to burp its way into every fraternity house film library until the world ends. [More]

Genre: Comedies

Starring: Erik Stolhanske, Paul Soter, Will Forte, Ralf Mueller, Eric Christian Olsen

Director: Jay Chandrasekhar
Screenwriter: Kevin Heffernan, Erik Stolhanske
Producer: Bill Gerber, Richard Perello
Composer: Nathan Barr

DVD Info

Release:

Jan 30, 2007

[DVD Details]
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  • Widescreen - 2.35
  • Audio:

    • Dolby Surround 5.1 English
    • Dolby Surround 5.1 French

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    2/4

    The bloated running time (110 minutes!) certainly doesn't do the film any favors...

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    07/10/07
    David Nusair
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    The Broken Lizard crew amuse each other with enough banal antics (can anything else account for this film running nearly two hours?) that the sober viewer suffers enormous gaps of boredom between good jokes.

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    03/15/07
    Mark Palermo
    Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
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    3/5

    Five pounds of (funny) stuff in a 12-pound bag.

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    01/23/07
    Scott Weinberg
    DVD Clinic
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    3/10

    ...aggressively, rampantly, jaw-droppingly dull.

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    12/02/06
    John J. Puccio
    DVDTown.com
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    Broad strokes comedy in which fat characters are hot dog eating champions and Germans are a beer-chugging cross between Captain von Trapp, Hitler and Heidi

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    11/10/06
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    Beerfest is a film that appears to have been conceived on the back of a beermat and its trashy direction, nonexistent plot and dismal comic mugging would seem to suggest that preparations progressed no further.

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    09/23/06
    David Jenkins
    Time Out
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    3/5

    It's not for everyone, but this delivers pretty much everything you could be expecting from a film called Beerfest.

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    09/23/06
    Matthew Turner
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    09/23/06
    Xan Brooks
    Guardian [UK]
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    09/23/06
    David Edwards
    Daily Mirror [UK]
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    3/5

    Fans of Broken Lizard’s previous work will enjoy this beer-fuddled effort; for anyone else it has its moments, but is best watched through beer-goggles.

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    09/23/06
    James Swanwick
    Empire Magazine
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    7/10

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    09/22/06
    JoBlo
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    2.5/5

    Like a bad batch of homebrew - all the ingredients are there for a fun comedy, but it's just a bit off.

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    09/12/06
    Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
    TheMovieChicks.com
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    Possibly the most irresponsible movie ever made and also one of the worst.

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    09/08/06
    Boo Allen
    Denton Record Chronicle (TX)
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    3/10

    This tepid celebration of binge drinking goes flat fast.

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    09/08/06
    Susan Granger
    Modamag.com
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    1/5

    While we'd probably be exaggerating to claim that Beerfest is the least funny film ever made, it's undoubtedly top ten material.

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    09/05/06
    Paul Arendt
    BBC
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    2/4

    If belching and beer games make you laugh, Beerfest should be on your A-list. But don't see it sobe

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    09/04/06
    Michael Szymanski
    Hollywood.com
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    "Beerfest" doesn't offer much more than a keg of cheap laughs %u2014 but that's something worth drinking to.

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    09/02/06
    Angela Baldassarre
    Sympatico.ca
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    1/5

    When the movie ended, I needed a drink, but not for the reasons that the movie intended.

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    09/02/06
    Toddy Burton
    Austin Chronicle
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    2/4

    "Beerfest" has its moments. But essentially it's all foam and no body.

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    09/01/06
    Linda Cook
    Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
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    6/10

    Beerfest is what it is, silliness that entertains at its own lowbrow level.

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    09/01/06
    John Wirt
    Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
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