Beerfest

I think I can start this review of Beerfest off by saying during the commercials for that movie where the critic said, “Turn your brain off,” was an honest warning to all who are about to sit down and watch this movie.
Beerfest is a movie about two brothers from Colorado whose beer loving grandpa dies and as family tradition they need to go spread his ashes at Octoberfest (of course.) While they were there one action leads to a domino effect of angry foreigners, multiple half naked ladies, and the two brothers discovering an underground drinking competition known as ‘Beerfest’ and decide to put a team together to compete the following year in hopes to beat the German team who made fun of their immediate family.
Actually enjoying the last two Broken Lizard movies I was pretty disappointed with how this one turned out. The storyline was pretty ridiculous from the beginning but I’ve seen movies that turn out surprisingly well for such a poorly thought out plot, sadly this was not one of them. During the film I did look past most of the dumb potty joke humor and unnecessary nudity because that is only what you would come to expect from a Broken Lizard movie. Don’t get me wrong, some parts of that movie did get me laughing but not for long, and not enough times to get my $7.50 worth. The majority of the ‘humorous’ parts in the movie were overdone cliché gags such as the ridiculously violent skull bashing fight scene where no one even gets close to being hurt until the end of the scene. I counted one witty joke in that entire movie which was about Germans “having a bad experience with U-Boats before.” Even the way the movie was carried out was very choppy, it jumped from the Americans to the Germans and back in a way that didn’t run very smoothly or help with the plot at all.
It might just be because I’m not a huge fan of this genre of humor but the parts of the movie that I disliked outweighed the parts that I enjoyed, too much so that I would not highly recommend this movie for anyone with a dry sense of humor or someone who is looking for a witty comedy.