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- 1983
- PG
- MGM/UA Entertainment Company
- 1 h 30 m
- 1983
- PG
- MGM/UA Entertainment Company
- 1 h 30 m
Summary Canada's most famous hosers, eh, Bob and Doug McKenzie, get jobs at the Elsinore Brewery, only to learn that something is rotten with the state of it.
Directed By: Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas
Written By: Steve De Jarnatt, Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas
- 1983
- PG
- MGM/UA Entertainment Company
- 1 h 30 m
- 1983
- PG
- MGM/UA Entertainment Company
- 1 h 30 m
Strange Brew
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Summary Canada's most famous hosers, eh, Bob and Doug McKenzie, get jobs at the Elsinore Brewery, only to learn that something is rotten with the state of it.
Directed By: Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas
Written By: Steve De Jarnatt, Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas
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Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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17% Positive
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67% Mixed
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4 Reviews
17% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
50
17% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
67% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
17% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
If you've got the time, we've got the brew--lite, zany and slightly intoxicating...It's a loosely constructed movie, rough and raw, but good for more than a few laughs. After you blow away the foam and discount the wandering, nonessential storyline, you'll find a playful, punful little film with salutes to Steven Spielberg and other recent favorite filmmakers. Sound good? Then this, bud, is for you.
Neither triumph nor fiasco, Strange Brew leaves plenty of room for improvement, but I hope Thomas and Moranis get the chance to demonstrate that they've learned a lot from the mixed assortment of nuttiness in their first movie comedy. [30 Aug 1983, p.B4]
No, there's nothing intelligent here--just a couple of likable fellows trying to stop mad Brewmeister Smith (Max von Sydow) from gaining control of the world.
At several points, Strange Brew is so unhinged that it works -- when it looks as if Hosehead the skunk/dog will be late for Oktoberfest, he jumps into the air and flies there -- but as Bob and Doug seem to concede in the film's opening, they are simply not interesting enough to carry a movie. Neither is anyone else involved, and there you are: small beer. [29 Aug 1983, p.C6]
A movie that's barely there. The McKenzies are genial enough, and once in a while they're vaguely funny. But their film is so ephemeral that you may hardly be aware of watching it, even while it's going on.
Here Von Sydow's a rival beer manufacturer hoping to take over the world by drugging his brew, but the plotline (derived from Hamlet) soon goes flat.
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