Not gonna lie, the ratings here may be a little skewed. Broken Lizards tilted the scale in their favor with making a movie about beer, and the festing of it. How can you not go wrong? Well, it can go horribly wrong in a lot of cases, but not in the cases of Schnitzengiggle beer!
Two brothers get caught up in a dark underground scene after the death of their beloved grandfather. It involves beer. It involves Shame. It involves hookin up with some old buddies, drinking or otherwise, to meet the challenge once again and clear the family name. You really don’t know where it’s gonna go. You know why? It involves Beer. And a Fest. That sheiße goes Sideways. Every. Single. Time.
Damn, these guys hit some peak drinking comedy here. The Broken Lizards crew had some good bits in Super Troopers, Club Dread was a fun take on the horror genre, that Dukes of Hazzard one really wasn’t a collective Broken Lizard effort so we will just ignore it except for the funny reaction part of putting the ole Dixie on a car rooftop in 2005, and then this. Beer, Boobs and Hot Cheese! Can’t go wrong with that combo, really. It’s basically the Fight Club of Oktoberfests. Or the Oktoberfest of Fight Clubs? With all the schnitzels and grubens laid out here, it really doesn’t matter. Plus Donald Sutherland, Cloris Leachman AND that Das Boot-starrin Crazyman Jürgen Prochnow, used to the utmost for both comedic and dramatic effects. But mostly comedic. Consistently good funny situations involving a solid core of comedians and good dialogue. Even with the hyperbole of the ratings, it really does come close to that regardless given the fun character development and classic illustration of the defeated hero character arc. Oh to be a drunken 33-year-old college student again!
