Python Hyena 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

The-Plague 'Beerfest' is the fourth movie made by the writing/acting group Broken Lizard consisting of Paul Soter, Erik Stolhanske, Kevin Heffernan, and Jay Chan,,,uh Chan…Chandrasekhar (Yeah, that's it!). After the death of their grandfather, Todd and Jan Wolfhouse set off to Germany during Oktoberfest to deliver his ashes. Although they do become a tad sidetracked with the festivities, they eventually meet the man that will take them to their grandfather's final resting place, which just so happens to be the site of a worldwide beer drinking tournament.'Beerfest,' like the other movies made by the Broken Lizard crew is not only hilarious, but just so well put together. The characters are genuine, the writing fantastic, the acting amazing, and the beer…oh the beer! This movie, while completely enjoyable sober, is certainly enhanced by a few cervezas (as our neighbors to the south would say). 'Beerfest' actually happens to be number one on my list of the best movies to watch when you are drinking, which can be viewed at http://www.imdb.com/list/ls000527140/. I have read many negative critic reviews for this movie, and I must say to those critics, "with all due respect, are you on crack?!"

Jason Daniel Baker Two American brothers in Germany to spread their dead father's ashes encounter an ancient drinking contest and round up their old college buddies to compete. This is the latest in the series of movies produced by the Broken Lizards comedy troop.Some movies are critic proof. That does not necessarily mean that they are so bizarre that critics can't figure them out. Sometimes it means that the flick in question is geared specifically towards an audience that never reads movie reviews. This is the same audience that went to see Dukes Of Hazzard (same director who made it too).The question every film critic is offered by a movie like Beerfest is why even bother to review it? You'd have to sit through almost 2 hours of crass humor about power drinking, frog masturbation and barmaid cleavage then write a review no one will likely read. The question is somewhat akin to that whole "if a tree falls in the forest..." philosophical query.Another question. How did cinematic greats like Donald Sutherland, Jurgen Prochnow and Cloris Leachman get in this movie? Talk about slumming. Sutherland at least had the good sense to go uncredited.Sadly some of us have our masochistic streak and do not let years of being scarred by seeing awful movies stop us from seeing more awful movies. Some of us go in and watch as our suspicions are confirmed. Sometimes...in fact quite often, it is agonizing to be proved right.In the case of sophomoric comedies like this one I can tell you that I started cringing at this type of humour well before I was twenty and I loathe it even more that I am past 30.Stupid, crass, lewd, childish...shall I continue? I don't think I need to...sheesh!

nicky_hansard I don't want to be another person who tries to criticize other people's opinions but seriously if one of your example's of why this was a bad movie is 'the German wasn't correct' or 'there accents weren't believable' then you have absolutely no idea what kind of movie this is. They weren't supposed to be accurate, they were supposed to be exaggerated takes on the stereotyped idea of what German's sound/act like...D'uh, just like all the other countries they portrayed in the show. I know I am being aggressive but it is annoying to see people complain about the accents (and then coming to the conclusion only ignorant people like this movie because they don't know any better)when they don't even grasp that it might have been on purpose.It is obviously meant for the younger generation because a lot of this stuff does actually happen when I go out clubbing or to a party. This is exactly the kind of movie that you watch while drinking with mates on the weekend (it is a whole lot better than a movie like avatar from that perspective) and yet it does have some underlying sophistication. I like the deep, thought provoking movies as much as the next intelligent person but YOU ARE ignorant if you can't see why this movie can be funny to a large number of people without automatically meaning they are 'lowbrow'.I think a lot of you need to get off your high horse. Just because you don't understand this kind of humour does not mean it isn't funny. Like the beer goggles scene, that was classic because I know the experience. Just like most guys my age could probably sympathize with.