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Genres:
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Comedy
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Director:
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Jay Chandrasekhar
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Actors:
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Jay Chandrasekhar,
Kevin Heffernan,
Paul Soter,
Erik Stolhanske,
Steve Lemme,
Allan Graf,
Owain Yeoman,
Tom Tate,
Bjorn Johnson,
Cameron Scher,
Chris Moss,
Collin Thornton,
M.C. Gainey,
Cloris Leachman,
Jürgen Prochnow
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Duration:
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116 min.
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Rating:
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(6.2/10)114.5
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Plot Summary:
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After the death of their grandfather Johann von Wolfhause, the brothers Jan and Todd Wolfhouse travel to Munich to fulfill a family form, spreading the ashes of Johann during the Oktoberfest. Their contact brings them to a secret beer tournament, the Beerfest", where they are offended by Baron Wolfgang von Wolfhausen and the German division of their family that accuse their great-grandmother of being a prostitute and their grandfather of robbery an valued recipe of the conquer beer in Germany. Jan and Todd returns to USA humiliated and decide to organize a beer team to differ on the next Beer... fest. They join Landfill, Barry and Fink and suite wish the year to participate in the competition. When they find the lost procedure hidden in a imitation, they fondle that their German relatives told the reality. But the conspire is gracious in behalf of the durable discuss.
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gak
Utter cliched yankyy yak sputum. Do not waste your time renting this filth out. I repeat, leave it alone.
Beerfest
Michael PhillipsBeerfest is one sloppy comedy, but the lads of the troupe Broken Lizard don't know when to say when in their pursuit of the idiotic laugh, and persistence certainly counts for something. The result is the opposite of a microbrew. It's more of a "Half Off All Pitchers!" special.
In honor of their late grandfather, played by Donald "Cash the Check" Sutherland, brothers Todd and Jan Wolfhouse travel to Germany to scatter the old man's ashes at Oktoberfest. There they stumble upon the top-secret, Fight Clubby phenomenon Beerfest, featuring the most punishing chugging competitions known to humankind. After getting out-drunk by their German cousins, who taunt the residents of the U.S. of A. for "your strip malls and your Zimas," the boys vow to return the f...
Beerfest
Comedy troupe Broken Lizard bring us a film about drinking beer competitively. Lots of beer, not many laughs
"No matter what happens, drinking beer with you guys is just plain old-fashioned fun," says Fink (Lemme), the boozing PhD who's part of the team played by the members of comedy troupe Broken Lizard. Presumably, that's how they - Lemme, Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Paul Soter and Erik Stolhanske - felt when they sat around penning Beerfest. It's just a pity their fun doesn't translate to the screen.
Like Broken Lizard's Super Troopers (2001) and Club Dread (2004), Beerfest makes a schoolboy error for a film sold as a comedy - it's just not very funny. How these guys keep on turning out films is a myster...
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