Beerfest (2006)
Average Rating: 5/10
Reviews Counted: 106
Fresh: 43 | Rotten: 63
Beerfest features some laugh-inducing gags, but is too long and the pacing too uneven to form a coherent, functioning comedy.
Average Rating: 4.2/10
Critic Reviews: 29
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 22
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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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
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Cast
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Jay Chandrasekhar
Barry, Blind Sikh -
Steve Lemme
Emcee, Steve 'Fink' Fin... -
Kevin Heffernan
Gil, Landfill, Sausage ... -
Paul Soter
Jan Wolfhouse -
Erik Stolhanske
Todd Wolfhouse, Young B... -
Will Forte
Otto -
Ralf Moeller
Hammacher -
Mo'Nique
Cherry -
Eric Christian Olsen
Gunter -
Jürgen Prochnow
Baron Wolfgang von Wolf... -
Cloris Leachman
Great Gam Gam -
M.C. Gainey
Priest -
Cameron Scher
Helmut -
Owain Yeoman
Aussie Sailor -
Tom Tate
Aussie Sailor -
Allan Graf
Soup Waiter -
Chris Moss
German Producer -
Bjorn Johnson
Mr. Schniedelwichsen -
Collin Thornton
Little Boy -
Pab Schwendimann
Door Bouncer -
Philippe Brenninkmeyer
Herr Referee -
Jessica Williams
Inga -
Steven Michael Quezada
Mexican -
Aaron Hendry
Pim Scutney -
Michael Yurchak
Rog Gobshire -
Nat Faxon
Rolf -
Gunther Schlierkamp
Schlemmer -
Blanchard Ryan
Krista Krundle -
Isaac Kappy
Hustler -
Robert Washington
Viking Master -
Leanna Kristen
Little Tough Chick -
Audrey Marie Anderson
Giddy Girl -
Megan Robinson
Giddy Girl -
Arron Shiver
Strike Out Kid -
Justin Ocksrider
Camera Phone Kid -
Amber Hay
"Cops" Girl -
Galen Hutchison
Wiseass Partygoer -
James Roday
German Messenger -
Anna Lane Tatum
Dancing Girl -
Candace Smith
Naomi -
Brittney Higgins
Todd's Wife -
Sarah Figoten
Young Gam Gam -
Marc Mouchet
Karl Schumacher -
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James Grace
Canadian -
Tom Carver
Canadian -
Ben Zeller
Spectator -
Ivan Brutsche
Spectator -
Sabrina Javor
Rog's Girl -
Rohit Sang
Raj Kuma -
Richard Perello
Bartender Percy -
Gary Kanin
Old Vet -
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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.
Even in a wacky, stupid comedy like this you have to have some thread of a plot.
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.
My best suggestion for people who insist on going to see this immense waste of time? Go drunk.
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.
Beerfest plays like a party that's gone on too long, when the buzz has worn off and the hangover starts to set in.
The bloated running time (110 minutes!) certainly doesn't do the film any favors...
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.
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)
Five pounds of (funny) stuff in a 12-pound bag.
...aggressively, rampantly, jaw-droppingly dull.
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.
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
It's not for everyone, but this delivers pretty much everything you could be expecting from a film called Beerfest.
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.
Audience Reviews for Beerfest
In recent years we've seen dozens of low brow comedies, back in the 90's when they were first arriving into mainstream taste many of them were surprising, shocking but also quite funny. Beerfest makes a fair attempt at achieving this, but from the opening unfolds as an annoying, pointless attempt at lowest common denominator crude humour caught on camera. In fact worse than knowingly low brow, because it actually thinks that it's smart. Honestly explaining the flaws of this film is even easier than the task of watching it the actors have the worst comedic timing imaginable. I ended up begging for something funny to happen. I mean if a film wants to be shamelessly upfront about how witlessly simple minded it is the jokes need to be hilarious and somehow realistic but the plot of Beerfest, just to call it a plot is innappropriate and non existent. It's basically a sequence of unoriginal and unfunny gags that make countless attempts at raunch but end up coming across as urgently vulgar. The excuse for it's existence is for some rudely fun chorkles but it has the nerve to try and engage with us and tug at our heartstrings. That plot device alone takes up absolutely loads of valuable laughing time and extends the whole affair to a whopping and groan inducingly tiresome 110 minutes. The worst part is that the fratboy characters are likable as they need to be, but that alone is not a good enough excuse to enjoy it as a comedy. Personally I don't think it will become the cult adolescent fantasy that it want's to be but as a person who wanted a decent, crazy, madcap, headstrong comedy to kill some of my free time I felt completely bored and very dissapointed. To be frank the actors appeared to be having a much better time in the film then I was having to watch them, the film seemed to have no value whatsoever apart from being their big, uninteresting and stupidly expensive in-joke.
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- Cherry: I'm gonna break your dick off!
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- Pim Scutney: You're all fur coat and no trousers, you are.
- Steve 'Fink' Finklestein: I'm sorry, one more time?
- Rog Gobshire: Shove off! We're gonna put the skitters in your Alan Whickers, you plonker!
- Barry: [looking to Fink] Do you know what he's saying?
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- Landfill: Who's Barry Badrinath?
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Also keep in mind that this was written by Broken Lizard, the team responsible for Super Troopers and Club Dread. Both of those previous movies were incredibly dumb but someone help you if you didn't find them funny. Beerfest is right in the same league.