Beerfest

Forget World Trade Center; the most patriotic movie of the summer is Beerfest. Broken Lizard’s tale of two brothers and their three drinking buddies (played by the five Lizards), who compete in an international drinking-games contest in order to defend their family honor and the chugging prowess of all Americans, will surely have you chanting “USA! USA!” between belches. Following the hit-or-miss Super Troopers and Club Dread, Beerfest is easily the funniest movie from Jay Chandrasekhar and Broken Lizards. Invaluable help comes from some outside pros, notably Cloris Leachman in full Frau Blucher mode as the family matriarch. Beerfest will appeal most to a frat crowd still young enough to regard the beer keg as a wondrous novelty. Still, alongside the potty humor and gratuitous nudity, there’s something for everybody. Any movie that casts Jürgen Prochnow as its villain and makes allusions to his role in Das Boot is clearly aiming at more than a lowbrow (or Löwenbräu) audience.

On the Web
Beerfest's official Web site: http://beerfestmovie.warnerbros.com/