JamieWJackson
"Super Troopers" made me laugh a lot. I had to force myself just to get halfway through this snoozer before giving up. Maybe it's funny if you get -- or, better, are -- drunk; as a non-drinker, I just didn't find much of this material amusing. I will say that, for a comedy, it was done reasonably well, so there's that. Maybe ST2 will be better.
NateWatchesCoolMovies
Ahh, Broken Lizard. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Super Troopers, The Slamming Salmon, Club Dread, and of course their underrated comedic riot Beerfest. The diverse, imaginative troupe of lovable idiots really understand comedy, and have an almost Monty Python style vibe to their work, with a subversive, wonderfully anti PC aesthetic that always generates laughs. The endless string of Apatow/Rogen stuff is a dime a dozen,but a Broken lizard flick is always a unique, memorable experience. The leader of the pack, Barry Badrinath (Jay Chandrasekhar also is the director) is rallied by his old college drinking buddies (Steve Lemme, Eric Stolhanske, Paul Soter) into training for an intense underground, Munich based posse called literally Beerfest. "Oktoberfest is for tosses and shapeshaggers yells a sloshed member of the rowdy UK team. The American troop is spurred by revenge after being humiliated by their distant cousins who head up the demented German team, (Macgruber himself, and Eric Christian Olsen belting out the worst German accents I've heard since the entire cast of Valkyrie). The movie throws laugh after laugh at us, with a really solid hit to miss ratio. The best thing: the broken lizard team just knows how everyday banter works, that in mundane, regular dude hangout sessions there is as world of comedic banter to be unlocked, as opposed to seriously trying to write timed jokes. The movie is filled to the brim with a chaotic, colorful, delightfully raunchy R rated goofball carnival sensibility that is impossible not to love. These films have a tendency to cast serious, often theatrically trained lofty thespians and throw them into the most lewd, self parodying sideshow versions of themselves ( Bill Paxton in Club Dread, Brian Cox in Super Troopers). Here they have Jurgen Prochnow hamming it up as Baron Wolfgang Von Wolfhause, slyly making fun of his iconic Das Boot role, Cloris Leachman in a slutty old grandma turn, and Donald Sutherland in a priceless cameo. This is the flick you see if you have a sense of humour, and aren't offended easily. It's slightly overlooked which is why I'm posting this. So check it out, ya fvkcin Dëutsch- bags.
The-Plague
'Beerfest' is the fourth movie made by the writing/acting group Broken Lizard consisting of Paul Soter, Erik Stolhanske, Kevin Heffernan, and Jay Chan,,,uh Chan
Chandrasekhar (Yeah, that's it!). After the death of their grandfather, Todd and Jan Wolfhouse set off to Germany during Oktoberfest to deliver his ashes. Although they do become a tad sidetracked with the festivities, they eventually meet the man that will take them to their grandfather's final resting place, which just so happens to be the site of a worldwide beer drinking tournament.'Beerfest,' like the other movies made by the Broken Lizard crew is not only hilarious, but just so well put together. The characters are genuine, the writing fantastic, the acting amazing, and the beer
oh the beer! This movie, while completely enjoyable sober, is certainly enhanced by a few cervezas (as our neighbors to the south would say). 'Beerfest' actually happens to be number one on my list of the best movies to watch when you are drinking, which can be viewed at http://www.imdb.com/list/ls000527140/. I have read many negative critic reviews for this movie, and I must say to those critics, "with all due respect, are you on crack?!"
Brandon Raheja
Unfortunately me and my other half couldn't decide what to see when we got to the cinema. And we ended up seeing this load of tripe! Right from the start I knew I was in for 2 hours of boredom. The "German" spoken in this movie is barely passable. In fact did they even consult anyone who spoke the language when they made the film? Because half of it is made up.The "Das Boot" joke was shocking. Though by that point I had come to expect that type of inane predictability.My boyfriend at least thought it was passable, but only because of all the scantily clad women featured.The best thing about this movie was the outtakes, and they weren't even that good.
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