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Beerfest (Unrated Widescreen Edition) | 
 enlarge | Director: Jay Chandrasekhar
Actors: Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, Erik Stolhanske
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  82 reviews
Sales Rank: 5271
Format: Ac-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: Unrated
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 116
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: WARD110207D
UPC: 085391102076
EAN: 0085391102076
ASIN: B000JJ4DNW
Theatrical Release Date: August 25, 2006
Release Date: December 5, 2006
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Product Description
Two brothers travel to germany for oktoberfest only to stumble upon a secret centuries old competition described as a fight club with beer games. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 05/06/2008 Starring: M.c. Gainey Erik Stolhanske Run time: 112 minutes Rating: Nr
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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
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 A Toast to Knuckleheaded Humor December 31, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Dim-witted, locker room humor. Check. Gratuitous nudity. Check. Ribald, sophomoric chicanery. Check. A lame, utterly ridiculous plot. Check. Yet put all of the above into an over-the-top knee-slapper like the audacious BEERFEST, and it's all good.
This is a film that celebrates nonsense. And depravity. And chaos. And celebrate it does--from stimulating frogs (not something you see very often in cinema) to saving one's self while trapped in a tank of beer by drinking said tank dry. And all the zaniness is geared towards Beerfest, an underground international beer-chugging extravaganza, overseen by Wolfgang von Wolfhaus (now THAT'S a name!, played frantically by Jurgen Prochnow). A team of five Americans--after many trials and tribulations during "training"--compete in a wide variety of events, from Beer Pong to Das Boot. And ultimately, it's a hoot.
The movie sports primarily a cast of unknowns (at least, to me), with the exception of the ever-humorous Cloris Leachman. Noteworthy contributors include Jay Chandrasekhar (who also directed) and Kevin Heffernan (the legendary beer-imbibing Landfill). No, you aren't going to be any smarter, or solve quantum physics problems any faster, for having seen the naughty, bawdy BEERFEST. But you are going to have an impish smile on your mug. Pour me a cold one.
--D. Mikels, Author, Walk-On
 A Christmas surprise December 29, 2008
My husband loves these kinds of slap-stick humor, so I thought this would be a great addition to his movie collection. What worked out so great was that while shopping at our mall I was able to find a mock version of "Das Boot" from the movie and give that with the movie as a cute little set. He was pleased with the idea & loved them both!
A NEW COMEDIC CLASSIC!! GREAT CHARACTERS!! November 27, 2008
This movie is great, I couldnt help but laugh at how they tried to be natural with the acting but you just bust out laughing. The best character, well actually my Favorite character in the film is OBVIOUSLY "Landfill". And one thing that remains a mystery about this film is that when Landfill supposedly passes away.. His "Twin" brother Phil that nobody knew he had shows up. Leaving you going "Huh?" for the next 15 minutes until you say "Ohh, okay" .. This movie is filled with crazy Germans who are Beer drinking Gawds!!
At college parties all over you have Students having "Das Boot" Parties, Drinking out of a Glass boot. Any Young Hefty fat guy with a gut will be called Landfill. The Crowd will Root "Land-FILL, Land-FILL, Lanfill, Landfill" Just like you've become him until you down all your beer. Cool
Anyway I feel you should check out this movie, its for some people who have a humour with an actual understanding behind it. SLackers especially need to check this out. A NEW COMDEDY CLASSIC BABY!!! DAS BOOOOT!!!
Hilarious! November 25, 2008
If you love Supertroopers, you will love this movie. Same cast and still funny. I highly recommend this movie
 Return of the Lizards! November 20, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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. ***
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