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The complete title of this cinematic masterpiece is “The Adventures of Bob and Doug MacKenzie: Strange Brew“, but it is most often simply referred to by “Strange Brew“. 
This strange and wacky and very humorous movie sprung from the minds of Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis who portray the two brothers who are the stories main characters. As you the story introduces you to our “heroes” you may begin to question both their character and intelligence, we are not sure if their lack thereof is due to one or a combination of the following factors; a lack of education, poor genetics, a diet consisting mainly of sugar and carbs, or a continual intake of beer! Needless to say, their choices and motivations are not always the best or to the highest ideals. Which leaves you laughing or shaking your head in amazement that anyone could be so stupid and survive for so long throughout the whole movie!
The movie starts with some scenes reminiscent of some of Thomas and Moranis’s work on SCTV as they try to show the audience a movie they have made. As is normal with most of Bob and Doug’s schemes this too goes awry and they are forced to flee from the angry crowds, but not before handing out the last of their cash as a ticket refund! This sets up the rest of the movie, as the father (note here: the voices of the parents are done by none other than the famous Mel Blanc of Looney Tunes fame!) demands the boys get him some more beer (recognize a theme here?) but since they haven’t got any money, they have to devise another scheme to get Dad’s beer. So off to the beer store with the mouse in the beer bottle routine they go. Handily rejected there, they proceed onto the brewery to get their “free” beer, Elsinore brewery.
Here our “heroes” get caught up in a scheme for world domination, yeah, that’s right, world domination at a beer brewery! We even have a mad scientist! Played by Max Von Sydow (really! I swear!). From this point on the movie is a delight of stupid scenarios and great one liners as our heroes unknowingly get fall prey to the machinations of Brewmeister Smith (Von Sydow) and his accomplices as they try to maintain control of the brewery and proceed with their plan to take over the world! (MMWWAAA HAAA HAAA!!!!)
I simply can not pick out one favorite scene from this movie as there are just too many that make me want to bust out! From the scene in which Bob and Doug bribe the company secretary with doughnuts pulled out of their coat pockets (“It’s a jelly, heh!“), to watching them zap each other on the electroshock therapy room in the insane asylum (“If you’d stick to your 12 point maintenance program we wouldn’t have to jump start you like this.”), to seeing them get involved in the experimental hockey game with the other inmates (“The power of the force stopped you, ya hosers!“). The situations they get themselves in are just too numerous and too hilarious to mention.
If you liked movies that would fit in the same genre as “Stripes”, “Caddyshack”, “Airplane” or other similar comedies you probably will like “Strange Brew“.
Some great examples:
Bob McKenzie: I was the last one left after the nuclear holocaust, eh. The whole world had been destroyed, like U.S. blew up Russia and Russia blew up U.S. Fortunately, I had been offworld at the time. There wasn’t much to do. All the bowling alleys had been wrecked. So’s I spent most of my time looking for beer.
Bob McKenzie: If I didn’t have puke breath, I’d kiss you.
Doug McKenzie: Chip here does the killin’. I don’t like to kill. I’m the brains, eh? Like, we got over five billion dollars in our hideout, only some of the money’s marked, eh, so we’re not spendin’ it. We’s just waitin’.
Bald con: Youse guys like a smoke?
Doug McKenzie: No, eh? We want our lungs to be pink when they fry us. Hey, we told ‘em we didn’t want a lawyer. Chip here probably just kill him anyway.
[scoffs]
Doug McKenzie: Lawyers are for sucks.
Watch it, laugh, enjoy! my prescription for a good movie experience,
Russ
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