Beerfest: This movie is just a lawsuit waiting happen. Something probably involving death by binge drinking. Probably some frat guys. I run hot-cold on the Broken Lizard guys. “Super Troopers” was entertaining and “The Dukes of Hazzard” had its pluses. I wouldn’t say either was high art, but it certainly looked like they wanted to have fun and we’re doing it however they wanted to do it. “Beerfest” is their latest offering, about a secret beer-drinking competition held during Octoberfest in Germany. Americans have historically not been invited to participate. Enter the Wolfhouse brothers who, trying to get the ashes of their grandfather back to Germany, end up in the middle of Beerfest and get thoroughly embarrassed in the process. They decide to put together their own team of drinkers, comprised mostly of some of their old college buddies. They spend a year training to beat the German Beerfest team, helmed by members of the von Wolfhausen family, who blame Grandpa Wolfhouse for stealing their secret beer formula for the greatest German beer ever created and absconding to America. The bulk of the film is about preparing for the games (competitive quarters, you get the idea) and getting the team together. A LOT of alcohol appears to be consumed in this movie (hence, the disclaimer at the beginning of film: “If you try to drink as much as they do in the movie…YOU WILL DIE.” ). I can’t help myself – this movie was funny. Like “Super Troopers” before it, there are some great, great quotes in this film. And I’m continually amazed by the legitimate talents that end up in these films beside Broken Lizard, with this go-round including Donald Sutherland, Cloris Leachman, and Jurgen Prochnow.(playing, you guessed it, an evil German). I wouldn’t own it, but damn it had me laughing a couple of times. Woodchuck sez, “Worth a look.”
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