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Entertainment Weekly
Scott Brown
Beerfest panders shamelessly to the 15-year-old in this 30-year-old... without assuming he is a 15-year-old. It's R-rated puerility for actual immature grown-ups.
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| 75 |
Portland Oregonian
M. E. Russell
It's fun-dumb and definitely not everyone's cup of tea -- I don't want to oversell it -- but Broken Lizard keeps it interesting by refusing to color inside the lines, creating their own silly little universe.
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The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
Random silliness rules the day, but the gags are frequently surprising.
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| 67 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
The guys of the Broken Lizard comedy troupe (of "Super Troopers" fame) are neither subtle nor especially ingenious. But in the age of gross-out gags and high-concept gimmicks, they throw themselves into the raucous, rude style of '70s film comedy with shameless glee.
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| 63 |
TV Guide
Ken Fox
Funnier than you might imagine.
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| 63 |
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Ach, Klaus, das ist funny! But Beerfest goes on too long. Take out 20 minutes of nonfunctioning jokes, and it would have given you a comedy buzz like four tankards of Lowenbrau.
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| 60 |
Empire
James Swanwick
Fans of Broken Lizard's previous work will enjoy this beer-fuddled effort; for anyone else it has its moments, but is best watched through beer-goggles.
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Film Threat
Pete Vonder Haar
Granted, you'e going to enjoy it a lot more if you spent a healthy chunk of your late teens/early 20s playing Bullshit and doing keg stands, but it's far from the worst comedy of the year.
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| 50 |
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Among the cast, Chandrasekhar is easily the funniest of the Lizards, though in fairness, each has his moments. The movie does, too; just expect them to shrink exponentially depending on your level of sobriety.
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Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
This gets off to a pretty good start, with most of the laughs coming from beefy Kevin Heffernan and nerdy Steve Lemme. But at 111 minutes, the movie is too slackly paced to build up enough momentum; like the characters they play, these guys don't know when to call it a night.
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Wall Street Journal
Joanne Kaufman
Ok, so maybe you don't absolutely have to have a Y chromosome and be 14 years old (or have the mind of a 14-year-old) to appreciate the freshmanic humor that is Beerfest. But, oh, does it help.
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The New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
The five comedians known collectively as Broken Lizard have created a frat-house staple for the ages.
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Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Beerfest is one sloppy comedy, but the lads of the comedy troupe Broken Lizard don't know when to say when in their pursuit of the idiotic laugh, and persistence certainly counts for something.
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Variety
Brian Lowry
Such fare plays better on DVD, where the best moments can be absorbed in bite-sized bits and the debris easily bypassed.
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Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
Mediocre raunchy comedy.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
To enjoy it you almost have to be stoned on marijuana.
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LA Weekly
Scott Foundas
Beerfest bubbles with the cheeky irreverence of early John Landis and David Zucker. Yet, like just about every other American screen comedy of the moment, it's far too long in the tooth, with a scattershot final half-hour that seems the work of an editor battling a bad hangover.
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| 40 |
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
What's funny to Broken Lizard? Let's try: What's not funny? The answers are, everything and nothing. They'll do anything for a laugh, no matter how puerile, silly or offensive.
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| 38 |
USA Today
Scott Bowles
Ultimately, Beerfest plays like a party that's gone on too long, when the buzz has worn off and the hangover starts to set in.
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| 38 |
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Jennie Punter
Beerfest is safety-by-numbers comedy. A troupe, as opposed to a single comic star like Adam Sandler, shares the comic load and, well, at least the film is funnier than "Click."
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The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
Beerfest is tedious and, at 112 minutes, too long to sustain a sophomoric, one-joke comedy even for the presumed target audience of older male teens and the college-age crowd.
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| 25 |
Miami Herald
Peter Debruge
Sober, this kind of material is an acquired taste at best and downright unbearable in stretches. And yet, the movie has the makings of an instant cult classic, sure to grow funnier among its devoted fans with each successive viewing.
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| 25 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
David Hiltbrand
The script is a stupid mix of Teutonic tongue twisters (say hello to Herr Schniedelwichsen), hoary German cliches (from phallic sausages to U-boat spoofs), and bad slapstick.
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| 25 |
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Making a comedy that celebrates binge drinking and cretinous behavior isn't a crime against nature. Making one that's as brutally unfunny as Beerfest is.
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| 20 |
Austin Chronicle
Toddy Burton
The vulgarity is so over-the-top and the decent jokes too few and far between.
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