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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.
A movie that feels as if it was conceived, executed, edited and ultimately released by people in an advanced state of gassy inebriation.
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.
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.
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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