During a trip to Germany to scatter their grandfather's ashes, German-American brothers Todd and Jan discover Beerfest, the secret Olympics of downing stout, and want to enter the contest to defend their family's beer-guzzling honor. Their Old Country cousins sneer at the Yanks' chances, prompting the siblings to return to America to prepare for a showdown the following year.
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.
– Joanne Kaufman,
Wall Street Journal,
25 Aug 2006
rotten:
My best suggestion for people who insist on going to see this immense waste of time? Go drunk.
– Bill Zwecker,
Chicago Sun-Times,
25 Aug 2006
fresh:
I felt oddly respected: Neck-deep in barley and boobs, marinated in urine, Beerfest panders shamelessly to the 15-year-old in this 30-year-old... without assuming he is a 15-year-old.
– Scott Brown,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 Aug 2006
rotten:
Even in a wacky, stupid comedy like this you have to have some thread of a plot.
– Richard Roeper,
Ebert & Roeper,
28 Aug 2006
rotten:
Beerfest is a film that appears to have been conceived on the back of a beermat and its trashy direction, nonexistent plot and dismal comic mugging would seem to suggest that preparations progressed no further.