ThiefHott Too much of everything

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Crwthod A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

tower3492 I have nothing to say about this Movie, except that it is just a junk of unending senseless and totally insane plot to be ever brought on the screen. Comedy (if there was some)was Just for the laughs of Actors (if we can call them)casted in the Movie.The amount of beer the actors consume can very well kill an elephant. Revolving around the same irreversible plot, you don't know when this endless insanity will stop. I watched the whole movie because i rented the DVD, and also hoping some dramatic changes or some comedy till the End.If there is a thing to see in this movie, is "i don't remember anything" even not a beautiful face......Watch this movie if u really don't love your time and life.

Jason Daniel Baker Two American brothers in Germany to spread their dead father's ashes encounter an ancient drinking contest and round up their old college buddies to compete. This is the latest in the series of movies produced by the Broken Lizards comedy troop.Some movies are critic proof. That does not necessarily mean that they are so bizarre that critics can't figure them out. Sometimes it means that the flick in question is geared specifically towards an audience that never reads movie reviews. This is the same audience that went to see Dukes Of Hazzard (same director who made it too).The question every film critic is offered by a movie like Beerfest is why even bother to review it? You'd have to sit through almost 2 hours of crass humor about power drinking, frog masturbation and barmaid cleavage then write a review no one will likely read. The question is somewhat akin to that whole "if a tree falls in the forest..." philosophical query.Another question. How did cinematic greats like Donald Sutherland, Jurgen Prochnow and Cloris Leachman get in this movie? Talk about slumming. Sutherland at least had the good sense to go uncredited.Sadly some of us have our masochistic streak and do not let years of being scarred by seeing awful movies stop us from seeing more awful movies. Some of us go in and watch as our suspicions are confirmed. Sometimes...in fact quite often, it is agonizing to be proved right.In the case of sophomoric comedies like this one I can tell you that I started cringing at this type of humour well before I was twenty and I loathe it even more that I am past 30.Stupid, crass, lewd, childish...shall I continue? I don't think I need to...sheesh!

Jackson Booth-Millard I had heard a little about this film when it was released in cinemas, I assumed it was a little independent comedy, I'm not sure if that is the case, but it's one I wanted to see. Basically brothers Jan (Paul Soter)and Todd (Erik Stolhanske) travel to Munich, Germany after the death of their German father Johann Von Wolfhouse (Donald Sutherland) dies, they are going to spread his ashes during the traditional time of Oktoberfest. Their journey takes them to a secret bar where they hold the annual "Beerfest", a huge drinking game tournament, and they make an enemy with Baron Wolfgang Von Wolfhausen (Jürgen Prochnow). He accuses their father of stealing the recipe for "the greatest beer in all the world", and their great-grandmother Great Gam Gam (The Iron Giant's Cloris Leachman) of being a prostitute. Jan and Todd return to the USA humiliated and wanting to get their own back on the Germans at the next Beerfest, so they plan to get their old drinking chums back to join them. They get competitive eater and drinker Phil 'Landfill' Krundle (Kevin Heffernan), frequent drinking game winner Barry (Jay Chandrasekhar) and Jewish nerdy chemistry scientist with a high knowledge of beer Fink (Steve Lemme) involved. They have a year to train for all beer related activities and games ready to participate in the competition, and they also happen upon the stolen recipe. Jan and Todd's father did indeed steal the recipe and hide it in their doll left in the will, they make the beer for themselves to test it out and train themselves, and they make a little money for it as well. Wolfhausen and his clan hear about the brothers training and the secret recipe found, mostly with the help of Cherry (Mo'Nique), who is also a little responsible for the death of Landfill. After the usual feeling of doubt and despair, Jan, Todd, Barry and Fink get back on their feet ready to go back to Germany, and they are joined by Landfill's twin brother Gil (still Hefferman) who taught him all the skills for drinking. The gang arrive at the event for the Beerfest and are faced with their rivals, and over a few stages with other countries being eliminated, it is indeed US vs. Germany. The score is eventually tied, and the Germans look like they have won, but they propose a final deciding drinking game, drink in a row and don't miss a drop. If the Germans win they get to keep the recipe and do with it what they will, and if the Americans win they get to take back their Bavarian bar like their father intended, and thankfully, the good guys win. Also starring Will Forte as Otto, Lost's M.C. Gainey as Priest and Willie Nelson. The frog milking and Grandma being slutty are really funny, and some of the drinking activities are good fun to watch, it is a simple premise of drinks and a tiny bit of nudity, but that is what makes it not bad to watch. Okay!

johnnyboyz I try to go into every film I see with a sense of optimism and an open minded approach but films like Beerfest make this really quite difficult. Beerfest is a cynical attempt at a film, a film that, I think, quietly acknowledges how bad it really is but through having no shame whatsoever carries on down its route. But perhaps the makers have an alibi - perhaps they were drunk when they came up with the idea because that would explain the mass inclusion of beer, women and general themes of masculinity and proving oneself through the amount of alcohol one can consume.The film isn't really about anything as much as it is a piece that promotes things like alcoholism and sexism. Beerfest exists purely within the universe of a young, ill-educated and naïve American mind who still thinks getting drunk, girls with big chests (among other things) and funny accents are hilarious – it is Kevin Smith-lite and I don't even like Kevin Smith. The film is a bad advert for American cinema and it is a bad advert for America's wholly view on the rest of the world, particularly Europeans. This is at a time, given the global climate in which we live, in which America need all the friends in the West they can get. People of a European descent are dying in far off lands because of conflicts the Americans have had a hand in kicking off, and the best we can all do is make a film that demonises and humiliates them? How unfortunate.Like I said, Beerfest isn't really about anything more than it is a proving of one's self in an environment naturally hostile through discrimination. It's here that Beerfest advances into whatever little theory it has in the first place. Various Europeans and people of other nations are located at a beer festival in Germany. Americans Jan (Soter) and Todd (Stolhanske) are completely outperformed by some Germans at a drinking contest and are then publicly humiliated by the hating crowd as their dead grandfather's ashes (Donald Sutherland, in a performance that will haunt whatever legacy he'll leave behind) spill all over them. I think it's here the film-makers are trying to get across a statement to do with how they think Europeans see Americans; as these daft and ill-minded youngsters who think they can beat anyone, on any patch and at any game.Humiliated and beaten, they are sent home to lick their wounds. But they aren't finished and propose a 'Team U.S.A.' to compete at the beer festival and win back their pride. Needless to say, the film enters underdog mode. I love the way the American kids attempt to come up with their own reasons for doing what they're doing, apart from the humiliation. It's something to do with Europe and the world's love of football (soccer) and there's a line of dialogue revolving around football and how it acts as a parallel to how Americans are excluded from competition in general, echoing their inability to compete in the drinking contest amongst the world's elite.From here, Jan and Todd recruit Phil Krundle (Heffernan) whose nickname is landfill because of his ability to consume so much food; Barry Badrinath (Chandrasekhar), a male prostitute down on his luck and Charlie Finklestein (Lemme), the stereotypical geek complete with glasses and extensive knowledge in science. Finklestein also adopts the role of the clown in the group, he is the Jew that gives up the respect of his peers and relinquishes the grip on his steady life in scientific study purely so he can compete in a beer drinking contest, additionally, the 'eye of the Jew' sequence when it arrives is done in pretty poor taste.So these guys get their team together in an attempt to win over the beer drinking contest held every year in what the film likes to think as a 'Fight Club with beer games' although to call it that is just an insult to Fight Club. Then again, the film is an insult to a lot of things; particularly common sense. Beerfest is an exercise in wrong doing and ill judged jokes; a glorification of the silly, petty and juvenile humor one hopes people will grow out of when they get to a certain age. Beerfest tries to tackle the results of sex whilst under the influence of alcohol in a manner that has its character see and hear things differently to what's real, but the whole thing is unfortunately played for laughs – how many equally absent minded people will see the film and think 'that looks like fun' more so than 'that looks dodgy' and 'I won't be trying that in a hurry'.The film is an exercise in tedium. It's the sort of film that has its central characters turn down half a million in currency for exchange of a daft beer recipe. Others will try to explain to you the principal of it all but perhaps they should give the rest of the film a watch if they want to give a lecture on principals, rights and common sense. Every single scene in Beerfest is a crummy and distasteful display of unfunny humour, poorly placed racism and blatant sexism and that's not including the frog semen gags; the obese jokes and the anti-Semitism all of which was written and performed by people approaching their forties; which is just utterly, utterly frightening.