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After a humiliating false start in Germany's super-secret underground beer competition, America's unlikely team vows to risk life, limb and liver to dominate the ultimate chug-a-lug championship. The laughs are on the haus!

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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

Rating : - Return of the Lizards!
Beerfest (Jay Chandresakhar, 2006)

First off, so you don't have to read the rest of this review: if you've never been fond of Broken Lizard's movies, then by all means, skip this one. It's everything that makes Broken Lizard great condensed.

Okay, now that the rest of them are gone and I'm preaching to the choir, it's everything that makes Broken Lizard great condensed. There's intensely stupid humor, consumption of mass quantities of alcohol (to the point where a disclaimer is attached to the beginning of the movie), gratuitous nudity, no small amount of toilet humor, and major stars whose appearances will leave you wondering "how on Earth did he get roped into being in this piece of crap?". Ah, Broken Lizard, how we love you.

In this most recent (as I write this) offering from the Lizards, Todd (Erik Stolhanske) and Jan (Pete Soter) Wolfhouse travel to Germany to inter their grandfather's ashes in the family crypt. While there, they discover that their grandfather's family, from whom he fled as a young man (carrying the secret family beer recipe), are the driving force behind Beerfest, an underground Oktoberfest version of Fight Club. The brothers, prodigious drinkers both, enter the contest and are humbled by their German cousins, who laugh them out of the competition hall. Suitably fired up, the two vow to put together an American drinking team and return the next year to claim the title that is rightfully theirs. (Not surprisingly, the team is composed of the rest of the Lizard crew--Jay Chandresakhar, Kevin Heffernan, and Steve Lemme.) Meanwhile, the Germans have waited decades to get the secret family recipe back, and will do so at any cost.

At heart, Beerfest is every dumb, inspirational sports movie you've ever seen, and the Lizards know how to both parody the tropes and use them to great effect. (Given the choice between this and Talladega Nights? Well, there is no choice, really.) And that's what Broken Lizard do best, the same way they did it to the slasher genre in Club Dread. And if you like that sort of parody, this should be right up your alley. *** ½