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Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

Beerfest (2006): Dir: Jay Chandrasekhar / Cast: Paul Soter, Erik Stolhanske, Kevin Hefferman, Steve Lemme, Jay Chandrasekhar: Satire of attitudes regarding one's love for alcohol or total freedom of responsibility. Paul Soter and Erik Stolhanske play brothers visiting Germany to spread their father's remains only to be humiliated in a beer drinking contest. Shamed they return to America to unite with three friends to form a beer drinking team to challenge the Germans in a year. Setup works due to background information but perhaps the funniest section is the middle act where they go through various training techniques. As expected the jokes are filthy and the climax seems to celebrates drunkenness but director Jay Chandrasekhar brings out the attitude in the subject. He assembles the Broken Lizard comic troop once again. They were in the underrated Club Dread, the overrated Super Troopers, and the downright pathetic car wreck that is The Dukes of Hazzard. Viewers may identify with Soter and Stolhanske as they anticipate redemption after the fall of humiliation. They are back by hilarious performances backed by Kevin Heffernan who we are treated to two sides of, as well as the impressionable Steve Lemme. Jay Chandrasekhar not only directs, but also takes on a role himself. Beer drinking theme used to evoke friendship and is played more as satire. Score: 8 / 10

Ahh, Broken Lizard. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Super Troopers, The Slamming Salmon, Club Dread, and of course their underrated comedic riot Beerfest. The diverse, imaginative troupe of lovable idiots really understand comedy, and have an almost Monty Python style vibe to their work, with a subversive, wonderfully anti PC aesthetic that always generates laughs. The endless string of Apatow/Rogen stuff is a dime a dozen,but a Broken lizard flick is always a unique, memorable experience. The leader of the pack, Barry Badrinath (Jay Chandrasekhar also is the director) is rallied by his old college drinking buddies (Steve Lemme, Eric Stolhanske, Paul Soter) into training for an intense underground, Munich based posse called literally Beerfest. "Oktoberfest is for tosses and shapeshaggers yells a sloshed member of the rowdy UK team. The American troop is spurred by revenge after being humiliated by their distant cousins who head up the demented German team, (Macgruber himself, and Eric Christian Olsen belting out the worst German accents I've heard since the entire cast of Valkyrie). The movie throws laugh after laugh at us, with a really solid hit to miss ratio. The best thing: the broken lizard team just knows how everyday banter works, that in mundane, regular dude hangout sessions there is as world of comedic banter to be unlocked, as opposed to seriously trying to write timed jokes. The movie is filled to the brim with a chaotic, colorful, delightfully raunchy R rated goofball carnival sensibility that is impossible not to love. These films have a tendency to cast serious, often theatrically trained lofty thespians and throw them into the most lewd, self parodying sideshow versions of themselves ( Bill Paxton in Club Dread, Brian Cox in Super Troopers). Here they have Jurgen Prochnow hamming it up as Baron Wolfgang Von Wolfhause, slyly making fun of his iconic Das Boot role, Cloris Leachman in a slutty old grandma turn, and Donald Sutherland in a priceless cameo. This is the flick you see if you have a sense of humour, and aren't offended easily. It's slightly overlooked which is why I'm posting this. So check it out, ya fvkcin Dëutsch- bags.

Unfortunately me and my other half couldn't decide what to see when we got to the cinema. And we ended up seeing this load of tripe! Right from the start I knew I was in for 2 hours of boredom. The "German" spoken in this movie is barely passable. In fact did they even consult anyone who spoke the language when they made the film? Because half of it is made up.The "Das Boot" joke was shocking. Though by that point I had come to expect that type of inane predictability.My boyfriend at least thought it was passable, but only because of all the scantily clad women featured.The best thing about this movie was the outtakes, and they weren't even that good.

"If you attempt to drink this much - YOU WILL DIE!" I knew from that moment in the opening credits that I was in for a real treat.The plot isn't overly sophisticated, but it's above average for the genre. Like all of Broken Lizards work - this IS over-the-top. One thing I can say about this movie is that it is flat-out hilarious if you're not easily offended, or if you like to drink beer. This is also a clear step above Lizards' other work.Beerfest is not ashamed of what it is, and it is, perhaps, the greatest beer drinking movie ever made. Now, that's not a difficult accomplishment, but I would put this movie above 'Strange Brew'. This version of the true beer-party movie gets props for sheer beer-weight, and for the script. Jay Chandrasekhar's mind is seriously twisted, and we're all better for it.Worth repeated viewings. Flat-out side-splitting. The film is chock-full of quotable lines.There's only two reasons that I dropped this from a 10... one is the TOO-over-the-top frog bit at the beginning, and two is the sudden and unnecessary use of CGI in the final competition scene. They hadn't used CGI in the previous beer drinking scenes and I didn't see why they had to ruin it late. Maybe they'll acknowledge this for the sequel - which(serious spoiler alert coming) I seriously hope is just another Beerfest part two, and not a 'Potfest' as they inferred in the end of Beerfest. I want another Beerfest! Pass me a schnitts!