#327:
Strange Brew (1983). A couple of
days ago, I went out for a drive and randomly wound up in Canada . You can read about it here. Anyhoo, after enjoying some coffee and a
donut at Tim Horton’s (but sadly, no beer while I was up there – it was late and
I had a long drive), I felt the urge to watch this little classic starring my
boyfriend actor/comedian Rick Moranis and fellow Canadian SCTV comedian
Dave Thomas. Now, I was totally in the
wrong region of Canada ,
but whatever.
The
Players:
Bewmaster
Smith: Played by Max von Sydow. He
owns/runs the local brewery. Also? Evil.
Claude
Elsinore: Played by Paul Dooley. He has
something to do with the brewery.
The
Rundown:
OK,
y’all, really? This is such a bizarre
little movie. It’s pretty much an
extended SCTV Mackenzie Brothers skit, with some fantasy thrown in. Some consider it to be the prelude to Wayne’s
World, which I totally see. Instead
of “Party on!” it’s “Good Day, eh!”
OK,
the story is basically that Bob and Doug drink/break the last of their dad’s
beer bottles, and have to figure out how to get more without any money. So, they attempt this:
and
fail. They’re told to go to the
brewery. So, they go, wind up getting
jobs there, and discover that something’s not quite right. The brewery is haunted, there’s a random
hockey team dressed like storm troopers, and the beer has some sort of mind
control substance in it. So, the
Mackenzie Brothers have to save the day!
Which they do.
The
end. Really. There’s a lot of random shit in this movie,
but it’s also slightly intelligent, in that it borrows from Hamlet in
various ways. But mostly, it’s just Bob
and Doug being… Bob and Doug. I
recommend you check out some of the videos from the SCTV skits, they are a hoot! You should also check out this movie if you
like movies like Wayne’s World or Super Troopers. This is the Grandaddy of them all, and
actually a fun little bit of nonsense.
That’s
a Wrap! Up next: Some more baseball!
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