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Beerfest
- Review Date: December 4, 2006
- R
- Genre: Comedy
- 2006
Common Sense Media says
Beer and burps; only for Broken Lizard fans.
Parents say
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Kids say
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What parents need to know
Parents need to know that this intentionally stupid, vulgar comedy features incessant beer drinking. Characters are frequently drunk, hung over, throwing up, burping, and peeing in public urinals. Most scenes are set in bars, at parties, or at drinking competitions. Several scenes feature topless women and/or women engaged in sexual activity with lusty or drunken men. Crude humor and language are featured throughout the film, including verbal and visual references to sex/ejaculation, prostitution, Jewishness, obesity, masturbation, flatulence, funerals, social expectations, and boundaries. Characters also smoke cigarettes, cigars, and pot.
What's the story?
Purposefully vulgar, ridiculous, and repetitive, BEERFEST is, predictably, all about beer-drinking. The minimal plot focuses on brothers Todd (Erik Stolhanske) and Jan Wolfhouse (Paul Soter), who go to Germany to scatter their father's (Donald Sutherland) ashes in his beloved homeland. In Munich, the German branch of the family, the Wolfhausens, accuse their American relatives of stealing a precious beer recipe and retaliate by abusing and humiliating the Wolfhouses at Beerfest. Determined to restore their good name, Todd and Jan assemble of team of former drinking buddies to best their German counterparts. The crew includes Todd and Jan's disturbingly oversexed Great Gam Gam (Cloris Leachman).
Is it any good?
Mostly, Beerfest consists of training montages (drinking), boy bonding montages (more drinking), and occasional references to other movies (Wolf, Das Boot, Witness for the Prosecution, any film that includes recruiting an elite squad). As it goes about broadly satirizing sports movie cliches, the movie also provides bouts of drama: All of the guys end up having some kind of personal trauma to deal with or get over.
Beerfest delivers exactly what you might expect from the five-member Broken Lizard sketch comedy team (Super Troopers, Club Dread): scatological, gross-out sex and jokes; physical hi-jinks, and endless yukking it up over drinking and drunkenness. Fans of the group will appreciate the obnoxiousness, but all the audacity is less "transgressive" of social norms than conventional.
What families can talk about
Families can talk about stupid comedies. What's the appeal? Who's the intended audience? How do these types of movies represent women? Is there any part of this movie that's meant to be taken seriously? What messages does it send about drinking and sex?
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Beerfest
Funny movie, crude humor but worth the watch. I dont think there is really anything wrong with the movie. I mean the name itself should be a sign for parents to not let their kids watch it until they reach the age of reason.
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Amazing movie!
i love the broken lizard guys and this is one of the best movies! not only is it funny, and appeals to many audiences, but it is not that bad for kids, say over 13 to watch as long as parents explain the bad language and excessive drinking to their kids, there is nothing really bad about this movie.
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MAN this movie is stupid!
I got the TV-edited version, but still the language was relentless, it practically worshiped beer and had side effects that were reviewed as comical! But all aside, I'm a sucker for dumb comedies, and this gives you a good chuckle at the pure stupidity of it.
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| Studio: | Warner Bros. |
| Director: | Jay Chandrasekhar |
| Cast: | Erik Stolhanske, Kevin Heffernan, Paul Soter |
| Genre: | Comedy |
| Run time: | 110 minutes |
| Theatrical release date: | August 25, 2006 |
| DVD release date: | December 5, 2006 |
| MPAA rating: | R |
| MPAA explanation: | pervasive crude and sexual content, language, nudity, and substance abuse. |
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