Strange Brew

Today's movie already has quite a following, but since it was just released on blu ray, I thought I would take a look back at it. One of my favorite comedies, 1983's Strange Brew.

After becoming a hit on SCTV and a smash comedy album, it was time for Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas to bring their characters, Bob and Doug McKenzie, to the big screen. After they give dad's beer money away, the brothers put a mouse in a beer bottle in hopes of getting free beer. They take their bottle to Elsinore Brewery and end up with something better than beer, jobs! Once there, the two unknowingly get involved with a plot to unleash a mind controlling, tainted beer on the world by the evil Brewmeister Smith, Max Von Sydow.

Written and directed by Thomas and Moranis, Strange Brew is a modern take on Hamlet, with Bob and Doug as the Rosencratz and Guildenstern. Most movies based on a sketch have the tendency to really be stretching a five minute bit into 90 minutes, but Strange Brew overcomes that and is funny throughout.

Strange Brew is one of my favorites. It's a beauty, eh.

It's on dvd, and did I mention it's now on blu ray?