Beerfest R

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Beerfest
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DVD Details

  • Rated: R
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 52 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: December 5, 2006
  • Originally Released: 2006
  • Label: Warner Home Video

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Entertainment Reviews:

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Total Count: 107

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 198,846
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. Full Review
Time Out
Sep 23, 2006
Rating: 3/5 -- Five pounds of (funny) stuff in a 12-pound bag. Full Review
DVD Clinic
Jan 23, 2007
Rating: 1/5 -- While we'd probably be exaggerating to claim that Beerfest is the least funny film ever made, it's undoubtedly top ten material. Full Review
BBC.com
Sep 5, 2006
Rating: 2/4 -- The bloated running time (110 minutes!) certainly doesn't do the film any favors... Full Review
Reel Film Reviews
Jul 10, 2007
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 Full Review
Urban Cinefile
Nov 10, 2006
It's R-rated puerility for actual immature grown-ups....Bet on this: These guys did their own stunts. -- Grade: B+
Entertainment Weekly
Sep 1, 2006
Rating: B+ -- 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. Full Review
Entertainment Weekly
Aug 25, 2006

Product Description:

With a title that insures against accusations of false advertising, BEERFEST is a raunchy and genial amalgamation of ANIMAL HOUSE, STRANGE BREW, FIGHT CLUB, and every clichéd sports film ever made. Written by and starring comedy troupe Broken Lizard (SUPER TROOPERS, CLUB DREAD) and directed by Lizard member Jay Chandrasekhar, the film is unapologetically sophomoric, never missing a chance for a belch, flatulence, bared breasts, or Cloris Leachman doing lewd things with a sausage. After the death of their bar-owning German grandfather (Donald Sutherland), Jan (Paul Soter) and Todd (Erik Stolhanske) Wolfhouse must travel to Munich to scatter his ashes. Fortunately for them, it's Oktoberfest, but the brothers aren't there very long before they embarrass themselves at a public celebration and find themselves at Beerfest, an annual international underground beer-guzzling competition. When they compete, they are disgraced by their German cousins, the Von Wolfhausens--headed by father Jurgen Prochnow--who claim that the Wolfhouses' late grandfather stole a beer recipe from them many years before. Jan and Todd return home to train for next year's competition, incorporating into their team a few old college pals--male prostitute Barry (Chandrasekhar), burly Landfill (Kevin Heffernan), and science nerd Fink (Steve Lemme).

For BEERFEST to work, it's imperative that viewers find humor in exaggerated German accents. Cloris Leachman appears to be enjoying throwing all comic caution to the wind, and Prochnow gets to lampoon DAS BOOT in a funny sequence. Big, sloppy, and ridiculous--compliments in this case--all apply to the third Broken Lizard feature, which is sure to burp its way into every fraternity house film library until the world ends.

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  • UPC: 085391117032
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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