Sunday, August 06, 2006

Beerfest



Watch the trailer here.

Oh holy God, Broken Lizard is back with a better film than that steaming piece of shit served up on a plate of ass hair known as Club Dread. Super Troopers was a fantastic film for what it was: a frat boy, quotable comedy with nonsense as it's main drive and ridiculousness following close behind (see: Zoolander, Talladega Nights and Anchorman). Jay Chandrasekhar, the chief writer of the Broken Lizard films (and comedy whilst at Colgate College) and many great "Arrested Development" episodes has stuck to what his audience craves - drugs, booze and stupid, stupid actions. Club Dread was a bomb and made me laugh about as much as getting hit in the face with a rusty axe.

The trailer succeeds in many ways. It leaves the audience asking "What the fuck was that?" which is essential for a random comedy like Beerfest. It also has moments that people will talk about even after seeing whatever movie they're at - when Chandrasekhar suavely talks to the woman with a "killer line," and actually just slurs out some typical drunken bullshit. Plus, we've all been there. How many times have you been in a bar talking to a cute girl and realized you just vomited on her and called her friend a "royal fat anus."

Eric Christian Olsen and Will Forte, along with the Broken Lizard team, promise to be great. The trailer is moronic, and I am thoroughly pumped for the film. Well done, boys, well done. In the spirit of the film, I will quote the great philosopher Montaigne from his chapter "On Drunkenness": "The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves." Hell yes, can't wait for two hours of mankind's worst condition.

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