Beerfest (2006)
Storyline
During a trip to Germany to scatter their grandfather's ashes, German-American brothers Todd and Jan discover Beerfest, the secret Olympics of downing stout, and want to enter the contest to defend their family's beer-guzzling honor. Their Old Country cousins sneer at the Yanks' chances, prompting the siblings to return to America to prepare for a showdown the following year.
Directors
Cast
Donald Sutherland, Nat Faxon, Cloris Leachman, M.C. Gainey, Allan Graf, Amber Hay, Aaron Hendry, Blanchard Ryan, Jay Chandrasekhar, Jürgen Prochnow, Kevin Heffernan, Paul Soter, Erik Stolhanske, Steve Lemme, Marya Beauvais, Philippe Brenninkmeyer, Ivan Brutsche, Cameron Scher, Chris Moss, Bjorn Johnson, Jessica Williams, Pab Schwendimann, Steven Michael Quezada, Owain Yeoman, Tom Tate, Collin Thornton
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Reviews
75
The A.V. Club
Random silliness rules the day, but the gags are frequently surprising.
67
The guys of the Broken Lizard comedy troupe (of "Super Troopers" fame) are neither subtle nor especially ingenious. But in the age of gross-out gags and high-concept gimmicks, they throw themselves into the raucous, rude style of '70s film comedy with shameless glee.
50
L.A. Weekly
Beerfest bubbles with the cheeky irreverence of early John Landis and David Zucker. Yet, like just about every other American screen comedy of the moment, it's far too long in the tooth, with a scattershot final half-hour that seems the work of an editor battling a bad hangover.
50
Chicago Tribune
Beerfest is one sloppy comedy, but the lads of the comedy troupe Broken Lizard don't know when to say when in their pursuit of the idiotic laugh, and persistence certainly counts for something.
50
Variety
Such fare plays better on DVD, where the best moments can be absorbed in bite-sized bits and the debris easily bypassed.
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