Strange Brew was basically the "Bob & Doug McKenzie Film". Back then, seeing T.V. characters making the leap to the motion picture format was still rare. Of course today, just about everybody from SNL to Borat to Lizzie McGuire to anybody goes major motion picture if their franchise is a hit.
Strange Brew's thin plot has the brothers trying to stop a madman (Max Von Sydow) from trying to take over the world by drugging all of it's beer. However, the movie works because the McKenzie Brothers were those rare characters who could carry their act for 90 minutes. Yes, they might represent Canadian stereotypes but they are legitimate ones. The obsession with Tim Hortons, hockey, beer, and saying "eh" at the end of sentences never gets old. Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis are comic geniuses who know their craft and their characters never get tiresome or become one-noters. I would put them in the same realm as Sasha Baron Cohen.
The film does have low-budget written all over it but the quality is better than anything coming today. Whether seeing the employees at Elsinore Beer playing hockey while dressed as Star Wars stormtroopers, their antics in the courtroom or hearing them talk tough to inmates it's broad humor that never gets old. Even a teetotaler like myself might want to start chugging beer and getting into the fun.
This is a movie worth seeing and I, too, would like to see a remastered DVD. However, no remakes, please.
Strange Brew's thin plot has the brothers trying to stop a madman (Max Von Sydow) from trying to take over the world by drugging all of it's beer. However, the movie works because the McKenzie Brothers were those rare characters who could carry their act for 90 minutes. Yes, they might represent Canadian stereotypes but they are legitimate ones. The obsession with Tim Hortons, hockey, beer, and saying "eh" at the end of sentences never gets old. Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis are comic geniuses who know their craft and their characters never get tiresome or become one-noters. I would put them in the same realm as Sasha Baron Cohen.
The film does have low-budget written all over it but the quality is better than anything coming today. Whether seeing the employees at Elsinore Beer playing hockey while dressed as Star Wars stormtroopers, their antics in the courtroom or hearing them talk tough to inmates it's broad humor that never gets old. Even a teetotaler like myself might want to start chugging beer and getting into the fun.
This is a movie worth seeing and I, too, would like to see a remastered DVD. However, no remakes, please.