Strange Brew (1983)

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

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.

Being Canadian, I've grown used to the common stereotypes attributed to Canadians and i can't help but laugh at them myself. To be entirely honest, most stereotypes are true. We drink a lot of beer, we're big hockey fans, our movies are low-budget and we use the word "eh" a lot and we have more Tim Horton's per city than any other place in the world. (for those who don't know what Tim Horton's is, it's a coffee & donut shop named after a famous hockey player from the 1960s, who killed himself drinking and driving in 1974, at the age of 44) but what is certain is that we're not total dummies like Bob & Doug.Bob & Doug are stereotypical Canadians who spend every day doing a TV show called the "Great white north" on SCTV, until they decide to do a movie within a movie, within a movie. (i'll try to explain it) The film you watch is them introducing their movie within their movie. when their movie screws up, the audience watching their movie within a movie gets mad and they all want their money back. then the movie that you at home are watching, begins. the brothers then are thrust into an adventure of their own, which gets them a job working at a brewery, but soon they realize the company they're working for, is plotting to take over the world...with their beer! OK, the plot isn't very original and the humour is mostly appealing to Canadians and fans of SCTV, but for 90 minutes, there is the odd joke everyone can understand. my favourite moment is when Doug asks bob if he notices in movies during driving scenes, the driver isn't concentrating on driving, bob, holding the wheel, turns to look at Doug and agrees with him for a good 15 seconds.If you're interested in Canadian comedy, you might enjoy this classic 1983 film.

Canadian actors Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas made their two alter egos, Bob & Doug McKenzie (two stereotypical, dimwitted Canadian brothers) very popular in "The Great White North", a part of the sketch comedy series, "SCTV". In 1983, after Moranis and Thomas had left "SCTV", audiences got to see the characters in a different format. By this point, Moranis and Thomas had played the McKenzie brothers in comedy sketches, and had made an album, but this time, they brought the two icons to a movie. This was three years before I was born, but I first saw it late in 2004 (I think a couple times), and from what I remember, I loved it! That wasn't quite the case when I watched it again a couple nights ago, but it still definitely wasn't bad.Bob and Doug Mackenzie fail to impress a movie-going crowd with their sci-fi flick (which they weren't totally successful making), so they find themselves having to run from an angry mob! After returning home to their parents, the unemployed brothers are told by their father to go out and get beer the next day, but unfortunately, they are out of money to buy it, so they try to scam free beer by going to the beer store with an Elsinore bottle containing a mouse they put in there, claiming they found it in there. They are told that they will have to take it up at the Elsinore Brewery, so they go there and soon end up with jobs inspecting the beers. So, they have finally found employment and manage to bring lots of beer back home with them, but don't realize that trouble is arising at this brewery! The evil Brewmeister Smith plans to take over the world by putting a drug in Elsinore beer! The McKenzie brothers are both headed for an adventure because of this, and so is Pam Elsinore, the daughter of the recently-deceased founder of the Elsinore Brewery! "The Adventures of Bob & Doug McKenzie: Strange Brew" starts out very well with the brothers' ridiculous sci-fi movie. In fact, this part of the movie is often hilarious, with Bob's opening narration, the "fleshy-headed mutant in the Forbidden Zone" played by Doug, etc. If this were a real movie, and meant to be serious sci-fi effort, I'm sure it would be IMDb bottom 100 material, but it's a movie in a movie, and in reality, it's for laughs. For those like me who tend to like extreme silliness, I would say it works! More extreme silliness follows in the film, but it's not as consistent as you might hope. I found some of the scenes that don't involve the two main characters a tad awkward, especially early in the film. They sometimes don't quite fit in with the scenes that do involve Bob and Doug, and sometimes drag the film along (this isn't always the case, and it doesn't rely ENTIRELY on the main characters for the laughs, though I would say it almost does). Fortunately, this certainly didn't totally ruin the film for me, as I still laughed a lot, sometimes hard (when I wasn't laughing, I was usually probably still smiling), usually due to the brothers, with their stupidity and some bizarre things they do on their adventure towards the end! While they may not be consistently hilarious whenever they're on screen, when they're not hilarious, they're at least mildly amusing most of the time, if not always. The lawyer fighting the press is also a humorous highlight.Bob & Doug McKenzie are the same in this movie as they are in "SCTV" and on their "Great White North" album, meaning they're still incredibly stupid, but funny to many people. If you can't stand the characters, there's obviously no point in trying to endure watching them in the movie format. If you're a fan of they're "Great White North" sketches and/or their album, you may or may not be disappointed by "Strange Brew". Clearly, some have been blown away by this movie, like I once was, while others, some of them McKenzie brothers fans, haven't been so impressed. I'm sure some people prefer Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas' alter egos in smaller doses, so an entire movie with them as the main characters might be too much for you if you're one of those people. Nonetheless, while it is rather polarizing, this 1983 Canadian comedy has appeal, that's for sure. It's obviously too silly/stupid for some people, no doubt about that, but in my opinion, it's a reasonable dose of comedic lunacy for those who want it. It's also interesting how legendary voice actor Mel Blanc, known as the voice of so many cartoon characters, provided the voice of the brothers' father!

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.