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Memorable, crazy movie

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Comedy legends Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis bring their lovable, beer-guzzling, very Canadian dolts to the big screen in this very funny vehicle for Bob & Doug. They were riding high after the success of the characters on the 'SCTV' show and the Great White North album, and devised this very amusing script, which they devised with future director Steve De Jarnatt ("Cherry 2000", "Miracle Mile"), a fairly subtle goof on "Hamlet", of all things. Ultimately, they decided on directing the movie themselves.Bob & Doug manage to get jobs at Elsinore brewery, and don't let their lack of wits stop them from trying to save the day when diabolical brewmeister Smith (the great Max von Sydow, in the mightiest role of his career) intends to manipulate scores of beer drinkers by putting a drug in the brew. They encounter former hockey player Jean LaRose (Canadian character actor Angus MacInnes, who played Gold Leader in "Star Wars"), who falls in love with Pam Elsinore (lovely Lynne Griffin of "Black Christmas" fame), the young lady who's legally inherited the brewery.Yes, "Strange Brew" does lag at times, but the good news is that there is always another inspired bit of lunacy around the corner, as Thomas and Moranis gleefully leave reality FAR behind and turn the adventures of Bob & Doug into a sort of live action cartoon. In addition to von Sydow, they also enlisted the services of another legend, voice-over artist Mel Blanc, who provides the voice of Bob & Doug's dad. The excellent Paul Dooley ("Breaking Away") rounds out the main players as Pam's nefarious but bumbling uncle Claude.This picture really is a beauty, eh. You can't get more Canadian than having hockey, toques, beer, back bacon, and a dog named Hosehead in your story. It gets off to a wonderful start by putting a fresh spin on MGM's famous logo sequence, and having Bob & Doug premiere their micro budget end of the world saga in a theatre to a flurry of negative responses. The effects are often quite cheesy, but in a largely harmless lark like this, that hardly matters.Are you still reading this, hosehead? Take off! Go see the movie, eh.Eight out of 10.

This is a weird analogy comparing two Canadian stereotypes to a 500-year-old play. Well, it's true. I thought it was coincidence, but I checked it out and it was deliberate.SCTV was the Canadian version of Saturday Night Live, minus famous celebrity guests and famous musical acts. Actually, SCTV was better than SNL during its run. That's right, from 1976- 1983 SCTV was the better product. SCTV was cancelled was cancelled because they wanted to be on for just a few years. SCTV was cancelled around the time of SNL's dark days. What really outs SCTV on the map was Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas playing Bob and Doug Mackenzie hosting "The Great White North." The whole idea came up as an accident (says Thomas): he claims that they needed an extra segment for time purposes and that he heard people talking about having a more Canadian-based segment and he sarcastically said "What? Do you want guys wearing toques, drinking beer and saying 'eh?'?" Rick Moranis was the new guy and Dave Thomas came up with the concept, and the greatest characters to grace Canada were born. Before Wayne's World and Trailer Park Boys, there was Bob and Doug.Bob and Doug exploded into worldwide fame, so it was only natural that they would get their own movie. This is one of the few little segments that transitioned well to the big screen. I loved this movie, but I noticed just lukewarm reviews on different sites. Those people just don't understand Canadian humour. I'm not just saying this because I am Canadian, it's just like anybody that doesn't get British humour. Bob and Doug are clean, so that plays a huge factor. People love profanity and violence--things Bob and Doug have almost none of.The movie starts out with Bob and Doug attending the premiere event of their new movie. Pandemonium erupts with angry fans because of how bad the movie is. Bob gives some money to an angry family before taking off, not knowing it was beer money. In this first bit, we get vintage Bob and Doug as well as how they are outside of the SCTV studio. They live with their parents in a normal-sized house in suburban-Toronto. The plot then furthers by them trying to get free beer by saying they got ripped off by having a mouse in a bottle. Anybody that knows Bob and Doug know their segment on the show when they talk about getting a mouse into a bottle to get free beer. Taking a segment out of the show and into the big screen was genius. Even though it was brief. They present it to the Elsinore Brewery where they are unintentionally hired and get lots of beer. Here is where the Hamlet plot ties in: Claude Elsinore (Paul Dooley) kills his brother and marries his sister-in-law to inherit the brewery and tries to get the legal heir (Lynne Griffin) out of the picture so he can do evil plans to it with his assistant (Max Von Sydow). The MacKenzie brothers find themselves in the middle of the conspiracy where they become the primary targets. Their stereotypical Canadian...everything, can be fun to all. The writing is fantastic and the humour is awesome. Adding Hamlet to the mix may sound weird, but it totally works here. I highly recommend this to anybody that gets Shakespeare and Canadian humour.

Once in a while, a comedy comes along that is so funny and so ridiculous at the same time that it's automatically destined for cult status. In 1983, "Strange Brew" was that comedy.Spinning off from Canada's comedy variety show "SCTV," "Strange Brew" follows the escapades of Bob and Doug McKenzie (Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas) following a failed venture at making a hysterically intentionally cheesy movie. In their unending quest for beer that follows, they eventually get a job at a brewery, where they drink beer, woo the young new owner, drink more beer, discover a plot for world domination orchestrated by Max von Sydow (yes, THAT Max von Sydow), and drink more beer. What follows is a cornucopia of hilarity that can only be explained if you watch it.Decades after its release, "Strange Brew" continues to induce guffaws in young and old people alike. It's the perfect screwball comedy to watch with a bunch of friends. So's all you hosers grab yourselves a beer and doughnut and enjoy the movie, eh!

Hilarious. Great one liners throughout. The low-budget production value and 'canadian' look and feel only add to this quirky beer drinkin fare. For me it's Rick Moranis that steals the show..'Sorry about that breakdown and all', 'if I didn't have puke breath', 'I've gotta take a pi$$', 'he likes jelly', 'good thing I wore that jock', Etc, etc, etc,...... I'm getting thirsty just thinking about it... Definitely the cult classic of beer drinkin flicks....and probably the funniest. Hosehead is my hero. This is the one that started it all. Seems almost like one of those stupid 'home movies'....if it wasn't for the two leads hilarity, this would probably be one of the worst films of all time. As it stands...a personal favorite. 79/100A very disjointed plot seems to fit the stupidity and hilarity of the whole thing. It's probably the most ridiculous of any highly viewed film ever made, and it is quite possibly the best "one-liner" comedy of all-time. It will certainly divide audiences. People who like to have fun will enjoy it - stiffs will hate it. I'm tempted to give this a ten because this might be the funniest movie ever made.You'll like this if you liked: Beerfest, Anchorman, Up the Creek, or Ski School.