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Sponsored Links   (2006) ** 1/2 R 110 min. Warner Brothers.
Director: Jay Chandrasekhar. Cast: Paul Soter, Erik Stolhanske,
Steve Lemme, Kevin Heffernan, Jay Chandrasekhar.  The
cacophonous frat fantasy Beerfest certainly isn't going to be
everyone's pitcher of beer. Comedy troupe Broken Lizard—best
known for Super Troopers—wrote and stars in Beerfest, which
includes the usual R-rated comedy elements: gratuitous breasts,
amusing profanity, and general irresponsibility.  "Beerfest"
refers to the super-secret, extreme version of Oktoberfest where
beer-chugging competitions demonstrate supremacy and pride.
After a dispiriting defeat, beer-family brothers Jan and Todd
Wolfhouse (Broken Lizards Paul Soter and Erik Stolhanske) seek
out their college drinking buddies, train for eleven months, and
return to compete again. That's pretty much the long and short
of it, but the troupe uses the basic construction of a sports
movie as an excuse for jokes that emphasi