Now Playing

Connoisseurs of le cinema de Broken Lizard can take modest consolation that this ode to "cold, fresh joy" marks a distinct rebound for the Colgate University-spawned comedy troupe from the dregs of Club Dread and The Dukes of Hazzard. A pair of brewsky-loving brothers (Paul Soter and Erik Stolhanske) travel to Munich to scatter the ashes of their dear old dad (Donald Sutherland), where they stumble upon the titular Olympiad of inebriation and, after getting their asses whooped, vow revenge. Topped off with politically incorrect potshots at the Fatherland (characters escorted offscreen and shot, a jackboot-shape stein) and an impressively idiotic litany of drinking games (beer pong, trick quarters, the line chug), Beerfest bubbles with the cheeky irreverence of early John Landis and David Zucker. Yet, like almost 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. The Lizards are a likable bunch, but in the pantheon of pilsner-scented comic pleasure, Strange Brew's immortal McKenzie brothers could chug them under the table with one liver tied behind their backs.

Related Content

• Celebrate Oktoberfest With Pop-Up Beer Garden, Munchen Brunching
  August 29, 2012
• Six Florida History Myths That Won't Die: Everglades Suicide, Al Capone and Castro's House
  April 8, 2013
• Beyonce Announces Mrs. Carter Show World Tour 2013, Coming to Miami on July 10
  February 4, 2013
• Richter Redux
  January 10, 2013
• Lanzallamas Monofonica Launches Three-Month European Tour at Tobacco Road
  May 17, 2012

More About

• David Zucker
• Colgate University
• Broken Lizard Comedy Troupe
• The Dukes of Hazzard
• Paul Soter