Beerfest (Unrated Widescreen Edition) | 
 enlarge | Director: Jay Chandrasekhar
Actors: Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, Erik Stolhanske
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  82 reviews
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Format: Ac-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: Unrated
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 116
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: WARD110207D
UPC: 085391102076
EAN: 0085391102076
ASIN: B000JJ4DNW
Theatrical Release Date: August 25, 2006
Release Date: December 5, 2006
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Product Description
Two brothers travel to germany for oktoberfest only to stumble upon a secret centuries old competition described as a fight club with beer games. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 05/06/2008 Starring: M.c. Gainey Erik Stolhanske Run time: 112 minutes Rating: Nr
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While it didn't quite spark a trend in chug-a-lug brew comedies, Beerfest is the kind of zany time-killer that's a lot funnier if you're within reach of a six-pack and Doritos. In other words, this is yet another low-brow laff-a-thon from the Broken Lizard gang (Super Troopers) that's likely to draw a bigger audience on DVD than it did in theaters, especially since there's a lot of duds (and flat suds) to sit through while waiting for the next big beer-belly-laugh. It's the kind of movie that thinks masturbating frogs are funny (OK, you decide), while serving up a gang of guzzling Americans (the aforementioned Broken Lizard troupe, who also write this stuff with director Jay Chandrasekhar) who compete in an epic beer-drinking contest against the nefarious German challenger Baron Wolfgang Von Wolfhausen (played by German actor Jurgen Prochnow, whose starring role in Das Boot inspires one of this movie's better jokes). When it's not trying to top itself in terms of sheer stupidity and juvenile humor, Beerfest satisfies its target audience (basically, frat-rats and party animals) with some gratuitously bare-breasted babes, rampant consumption of alcohol, and the welcomed appearance of Cloris Leachman, who sort-of reprises her "Frau Blucher" persona from Young Frankenstein. So basically what you've got here is a dim-witted but energetic comedy called Beerfest that delivers exactly what you'd expect from a movie with that title. Who says truth in advertising is dead? --Jeff Shannon
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 Promotes Drunkeness (and the Awesomeness of Alcohol September 6, 2006
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
A priest tries to extort money using violence....a man chugs three beers before killing himself by pulling the plug at his own funeral....women tear off other women's clothes while pouring beer on each other....a kid gets run over by a barrel, and I can't really remember after having a few too many but I believe the meaning of life and the key to enlightenment are revealed...and that's all in the first five freakin' minutes.
Maybe once or twice have I laughed harder at the movies than I did when I saw BEERFEST, which deserves print in ALL capital letters. My only regret was that I didn't smuggle in a sixer of 2 by 4s to drink with the mates. Broken Lizard regains the fine form of SuperTroopers.
As another reviewer put it: "The sage and bountiful Loveables who run Time Warner made this incredibly benign, sagacious and wise movie full of acute acting and takes a hardy approach to drinking, which can make family functions bearable, lives worth living and toasts to one's health. The studio should be commended for making this Oscar caliber film."
I love Beerfest. March 8, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Beerfest is extremely hilarious. Although raunchy and sometimes, downright dirty, the Broken Lizard crew delivers this masterpeice spectacularly.
It's not as easy as calling it a December 6, 2006
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
While it might appear to some that this is just another college frat movie that has a lot of drinking and women (and drinking women) because that's what college guys like and will pay to watch, it's just not that simple. It's like calling South Park just another funny cartoon, or Team America just being a comic version of Thunderbirds.
They don't insult the intelligent viewer's intelligence. The gratuitous elements are clearly just that because they don't try to hide them with some lame excuses - it's all blatantly obvious, the [...], the excessive drinking, the making fun of Germans, etc. Many "standard" jokes are turned around, then enhanced to take it to a level that rivals the South Park crew's. The bad taste jokes are in such bad taste that there's nothing left to doubt that it's for plain fun but in a rather unspeakable way that makes you think twice before you think about talking about it around the water cooler from fear that an HR rep will overhear you.
It's razor sharp in its delivery, and it's as much a parody of regular frat flicks as it is one itself.
So if you think that this is just another Porky's, Old School, Van Wilder or the like, and ready to pass it up because you think you've seen it all before, well, think again.
I laughed until I cried. September 15, 2006
8 out of 11 found this review helpful
Beerfest is the latest project to hit the theaters from the Broken Lizard team who has been responsible for the rip-roaring comedy Super Troopers and the lesser-known, though still funny (to me), Club Dread and Puddle Cruiser.
My expectations were left at the door and all that I sat down with was the hope that it would be better than Club Dread. As the movie started, I had my reservations. I am never one to shy away from gratuitous nudity, but I have often considered it a last-ditch effort to wrench a laugh from the audience. If they were resorting to that in the first few minutes of the movie, things did not look good. Little did I know at the time that there was a necessary set up for the storyline. There had to be some actual time spent on explaining a thing or two before things could progress. The nudity, reminiscent of comedies from nearly a generation ago, was only something to hold your attention while they warmed the engine. It was as if Broken Lizard said, "We apologize that our plot line is a little far-fetched. We have to jump through a few hoops and clear up some red tape before we can get going. Oh, here are some topless girls to help pass the time and make up for any inconvenience we may have caused." And then the movie took off...
This is such a stupid idea -- getting five guys together to compete in a secret beer-drinking competition in Germany -- that the strength had to be in the writing. And it was. The dialogue was great, the sight gags were great.
Paul Soter and Erik Stolhanske are Jan and Todd Wolfhouse, brothers and the descendents of the Germans which lead them to Beerfest. Jay Chandrasekhar plays Barry, a character who was the best at all drinking games in college. Jan and Todd find him a bit down on his luck when they ask him to join the team. Aside from directing the movie, I have to say that Jay is the most talented of the Broken Lizard team. Kevin Heffernan who is most beloved as "Farva" (Super Troopers) plays "Landfill," the team's former competitive eater. (According to the credits, he also painted the portraits of Stolhanske and Soter that appear in the Beerfest arena.) Steve Lemme is single handedly (pun only slightly intended) responsible for the beginning of the hilarity in the movie.
This is the perfect movie for me to want to say, "Hey, remember the part when..." and when you do, we share a laugh. I would love to recite the movie for you quote by quote, but obviously that would ruin it.
The movie was very funny and I loved it. I'm not ashamed to admit when a movie makes me cry. During Beerfest I had tears streaming from my eyes. I have not laughed that hard in a long time. Beerfest had my face contorted in laughter until my cheeks hurt. My hat is off, once again, to the Broken Lizard team. I may have laughed more frequently during Super Troopers, but I laughed harder at Beerfest.
Very funny, another broken lizard classic August 26, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Jan and Todd Wolfhouse are two american boys who are grieving the loss of their beloved grandfather. His dying wish is for them to go to Germany (the old country) and spread his ashes during octoberfest...or so they think. They meet their guide to go to the specific location in Munich to deposit the ashes, and he leads them to a secret location, and to BEERFEST. At that time, they meet thier cousins, the Von Wolfhusen family, and uncover their shameful family secret. Now, for the honor of their family, they must train and win at BEERFEST. Together, with the competative eater "Landfill", The Jock who always "one upped" them in highschool, and the College Boy to understand the science of the games, they set forth to take Germany by storm, with a lot of mayhem along the way.
This movie is clever, whitty, and right along at the same quality as super troopers. The humor is classic, and easilly related to anyone who has lived through highschool and college. The whole concept for this movie is just original and darn funny. If you liked super troopers, they picked right up in it's tradition. Go see this movie. Well worth the price of admission.
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