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An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

At Johann von Wolfhause's funeral, his grandsons Jan and Todd are told to travel to Munich and spread his ashes during Oktoberfest. They cause mayhem and lose in an underground drinking tournament called Beerfest run by Baron Wolfgang von Wolfhausen (Jürgen Prochnow). They are told that Johann stole the recipe of the greatest beer and their Gam Gam was a prostitute. They go home vowing revenge by recruiting their college friends Landfill, Barry and Fink for an American Beerfest team.There is the general silliness from the Broken Lizard crew. It's got a few chuckles in a lot of stupidity. Everybody is mugging for the camera and nobody is playing the straight man. It's a functional comedy until a likable lead character gets killed. It's a real buzz-kill and the rest of the movie feels like a hangover. For me, it's a 6 until the death.

'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?!"

Beerfest by Broken Lizard is just not funny material. Every aspect is over-blown and most jokes are the easiest and most obvious. They then repeat every obvious joke over and over and over again. The story isn't a necessarily bad one, it allows for a lot of potential fun and parody. The comedy troupe simply never seems interested in thinking about it, settling for tired, overused stereotypes without adding anything fresh or new. I was surprised at how poorly constructed the film was and how awful the two lead actors were (they weren't this bad in Super Troopers by any means). Beerfest, from the jokes, acting, and directing just felt like a lazy exercise.

I don't want to be another person who tries to criticize other people's opinions but seriously if one of your example's of why this was a bad movie is 'the German wasn't correct' or 'there accents weren't believable' then you have absolutely no idea what kind of movie this is. They weren't supposed to be accurate, they were supposed to be exaggerated takes on the stereotyped idea of what German's sound/act like...D'uh, just like all the other countries they portrayed in the show. I know I am being aggressive but it is annoying to see people complain about the accents (and then coming to the conclusion only ignorant people like this movie because they don't know any better)when they don't even grasp that it might have been on purpose.It is obviously meant for the younger generation because a lot of this stuff does actually happen when I go out clubbing or to a party. This is exactly the kind of movie that you watch while drinking with mates on the weekend (it is a whole lot better than a movie like avatar from that perspective) and yet it does have some underlying sophistication. I like the deep, thought provoking movies as much as the next intelligent person but YOU ARE ignorant if you can't see why this movie can be funny to a large number of people without automatically meaning they are 'lowbrow'.I think a lot of you need to get off your high horse. Just because you don't understand this kind of humour does not mean it isn't funny. Like the beer goggles scene, that was classic because I know the experience. Just like most guys my age could probably sympathize with.