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Beerfest
Some comedies are meant to be watched while you’re messed up on your drug of choice, be it alcohol, pot, or in my case chronic insomnia. Holy shit, was Beerfest awesome at 4 a.m. High fives to the Broken Lizard dudes!
Beerfest made me cry with laughter for virtually all of the 110 minutes it graced my fine 36” Sony Wega, that is beautiful, and yet horribly outdated. Now, again, I haven’t been sleeping well and maybe like, the resulting minor brain damage made this movie better to my bloodshot eyes. I don’t care! It was good, and I liked it.
Oh, yeah, what it’s about. Two brothers are sent to Germany with the ashes of their beloved patriarch. Through a rather nice showing of titties at Oktoberfest, they get dragged into a seedy, winner takes all Olympiad of Beer Drinking. Of course, they’re utterly unprepared for this level of beer consumption and are sent home, bruised and humiliated, but not broken. The rest of the movie details their recruitment of America’s finest into a not so-lean, mean, incredibly heavy drinking team of USA USA USA.
The team is composed of the usual suspects. Paul Soter plays the youngest brother and bit of an idiot, Jan Wolfhouse. Erik Stolhanske plays his older brother Todd. The big meathead Landfill is played by Kevin Heffernan and he is, of course, the best. Jay Chandrasekhar is Barry Badrinath as well as the director of this fine feature film. Barry’s the drinking game wizard. Steve Lemme plays Steve ‘Fink’ Finklestein, the Jewish Brain of the group and thus super motivated to fucking wreck zee Germans. Those are the Good guys. Wolfgang von Wolfhaus, as portrayed by Juergen Prochnow, is the head of the Evil Prussian Branch of the Wolfhaus family tree. This is the best movie the poor scarred dude has been in since Das Boot.
What makes this such a great stupid comedy is that it is filled with clever references. For instance, they never actually break out into the “USA! USA! USA!” chant. There’s a great homage to Bond films with a fight between Landfill and a German agent. The timing is just there for every damn joke. I thought it was even better than Super Trooper, and I fucking loved Super Troopers.
Well, I think that’s enough rambling about this laughter and boob filled wunderkind of American film. What? Did I get any sleep last night? Uh... sure I did, at least like three or four hours. Okay, I’ll admit, they weren’t consecutive, but they were there nonetheless and Beerfest is still hella bad ass. Go see it! Preferably not sober!
4.0 / 4.0
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