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Beerfest (2006)

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Average Rating: 5/10
Reviews Counted: 104
Fresh: 41 | Rotten: 63

Beerfest features some laugh-inducing gags, but is too long and the pacing too uneven to form a coherent, functioning comedy.

27

Average Rating: 4.4/10
Critic Reviews: 26
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 19

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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Movie Info

Two guys used to drinking beer for fun suddenly become fierce competitors in a sort of Lager Olympics in this over-the-top comedy. Todd Wolfhouse (Erik Stolhanske) and his brother Jan (Paul Soter) are from a German-American family but have never visited the Old Country until their grandfather dies and they fly to Germany to scatter his ashes. Todd and Jan arrive during the annual Oktoberfest celebration and accidentally discover a secret competition, "Beerfest," in which the world's leading beer

Dec 5, 2006

$19.0M

Warner Bros. Pictures

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All Critics (111) | Top Critics (26) | Fresh (44) | Rotten (64) | DVD (10)

Even in a wacky, stupid comedy like this you have to have some thread of a plot.

August 28, 2006 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper | Comment
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I felt oddly respected: Neck-deep in barley and boobs, marinated in urine, Beerfest panders shamelessly to the 15-year-old in this 30-year-old... without assuming he is a 15-year-old.

August 25, 2006 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | Comment
Entertainment Weekly
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My best suggestion for people who insist on going to see this immense waste of time? Go drunk.

August 25, 2006 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Comment
Chicago Sun-Times
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Ok, so maybe you don't absolutely have to have a Y chromosome and be 14 years old (or have the mind of a 14-year-old) to appreciate the freshmanic humor that is Beerfest. But, oh, does it help.

August 25, 2006 Full Review Source: Wall Street Journal | Comment
Wall Street Journal
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Beerfest plays like a party that's gone on too long, when the buzz has worn off and the hangover starts to set in.

August 25, 2006 Full Review Source: USA Today | Comment
USA Today
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A movie that feels as if it was conceived, executed, edited and ultimately released by people in an advanced state of gassy inebriation.

August 25, 2006 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment
Toronto Star
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The bloated running time (110 minutes!) certainly doesn't do the film any favors...

July 10, 2007 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | Comment
Reel Film Reviews

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.

March 15, 2007 Full Review | Comment

Although the best I can say for it is that it did not offend me, two smiles do not a good comedy make. (HD-DVD Edition)

February 5, 2007 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

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

January 23, 2007 Full Review Source: DVD Clinic | Comment
DVD Clinic

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

December 2, 2006 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

Last year, Anna Faris wiped urine over Cloris Leachman's body. This year, the 79-year-old does an amazing thing with a sausage. Someone give this woman another Oscar.

November 25, 2006 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Slant Magazine

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

November 10, 2006 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | Comment
Urban Cinefile

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

September 23, 2006 Full Review Source: ViewLondon | Comment
ViewLondon

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.

September 23, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

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.

September 23, 2006 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | Comment
Empire Magazine
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One of the worst films I have ever seen.

August 10, 2010
SirPant

Super Reviewer

Not as great as Super Troopers, but definitely warrants watching if you're a fan of Jackass or Ashton Kutcher.

July 29, 2010
FrizzDrop

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