Review – Strange Brew

It’s Great White North: The Motion Picture. In all honesty, Bob and Doug McKenzie (Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas) were a lot funnier as a skit on SCTV. That isn’t to say that there aren’t entertaining moments here and there. It’s just that mustering a few funny moments works well for a short sketch but not for a feature-length production. And overall the story is much like the jokes: a lot depends on the audience being somewhere in the late teen or early 20’s bracket, and it probably helps to be drunk. Indeed, almost everything here is the sort of thing that seems hilarious when you’re intoxicated but doesn’t make a lick of sense when you’re sober. For example, parts of this are a really strange reworking of Hamlet. They’re just sort of “oh, that’s kind of like Hamlet” if you’re straight, but if you’re wasted then Bob and Doug stumbling around the Elsinore Brewery is a feat of comic genius. So bear that in mind if you decide to take on this experience. Mildly amusing