Beerfest

MPAA Rating: R for pervasive crude and sexual content, language, nudity and substance abuse
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Primary Audience:
Adults
Genre:
Comedy, Adventure
Length:
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Year of Release:
2006
USA Release:
August 25, 2006 (wide)
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Featuring: Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, Erik Stolhanske, Mo’Nique Imes-Jackson, Cloris Leachman
Director: Jay Chandrasekhar
Producer: Michael Beugg, Thomas Tull, William Fay
Distributor: Warner Bros.

“Prepare for the ultimate chug of war.”

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Producer’s Synopsis:
“When American brothers Todd and Jan Wolfhouse travel to Germany to spread their grandfather’s ashes at Oktoberfest, they stumble upon a super-secret, centuries old, underground beer games competition—‘Beerfest,’ the secret Olympics of beer drinking.

The brothers receive a less than warm welcome from their German cousins, the Von Wolfhausens, who humiliate Todd and Jan, slander their relatives, and finally cast them out of the event. Vowing to return in a year to defend their country and their family’s honor, The Wolfhouse boys assemble a ragtag dream team of beer drinkers and gamers: Barry Badrinath, the consummate skills player with a dark past; Phil Krundle (AKA Landfill), a one-man chugging machine; and Steve ‘Fink’ Finklestein, the lab tech with a PhD in All Things Beer.

This Magnificent Five train relentlessly, using their hearts, minds and livers to drink faster, smarter and harder than they ever have before. But first they must battle their own demons… as well as a bunch of big, blond, German jerks who want to destroy the team before they can even make it back to Munich.

Revenge, like beer, is best served cold.”

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Negative - Beerfest is a pretty vile film, and while it's funny in a juvenile kind of way, it's no Monty Python revival. I was talked into seeing this movie with some friends from work, and, yes, I admit to laughing a lot. The humor was crude, campy and occasionally clever, but overall that the film comes off as kind of an over the top self-parody. Sadly, this movie—released just in time for freshman orientation across the nation—will probably inspire a death or two surrounding the consistent social ill of binge drinking, which this film dismisses by its very release.
My Ratings: Extremely Offensive / 2
—Richard Schmitz, age 50

Negative - I went to see this movie with a group of friends. I was VERY glad my parents didn't come with us. I did get a few laughs from this movie, but wouldn't see it again. The only really good thing I can say about the movie is, the Sons were trying to save their family name, and please their dead father. We all should work hard to keep our family name.
My Ratings: Very Offensive / 2
—Angela Noble, age 23