Fresh and Exciting

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

The vast majority of the humour is just plain childish or crude. The stereotyping of the people from countries other than the US is not funny but rather insulting and offensive.

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

How can you not like this movie,huh? It is what is a movie about drinking and fun..and more drinking.The start of it seems silly but as the movie went on I thought that there were some pretty good scenes and the actors were hilarious.Trying to enter a competition and keep their A-game alive as well.I liked this movie for the fact that is was all silly fun,the characters made it believable and adding that Monique had a cameo was a plus.The scene with her and Jay are too funny.If liked movies like Animal House and Old School you will like this one.

This is just plain and simple not a good movie, but I can't help liking it. Perhaps I'm just a sucker for that whole good guys make bad guys get their comeuppance plot, even if it's done by a bunch of B-actors and worse. Are the jokes really any good? Mostly it's just vulgarities and lame slapstick, but there's nothing wrong with that. I didn't want to make that sound negative. I even laughed at the frog scenes for some reason. The way they handled the Landfill character was pretty goddamn funny too, they occasionally tried go for a full-blown parody but then bailed out on that again. This script is really just writing whatever you feel like which, again, is not really a bad thing as long as it's funny. The only bothering parts are the first fifteen minutes (plot is set up, jokes are not funny) and that stupid last bit with Willie Nelson. Talk about not quitting while you're ahead. It's a fun movie to watch and then forget almost instantly.