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I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell

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If I had to choose between watching this movie again and getting kicked in the nuts I'd take a swift shot to my nads. The pain wouldn't last as long as this crappy movie did.

The book was great. This movie is an hour and a half of crap. It's basically a chick flick with a couple lines from the book thrown into the dialog. Over half of the movie is his friends telling him to grow up and him trying to change to become a better person so his friends will talk to him again. It's just one long disappointing chick flick that didn't contain a single funny moment. The plot and story line suck, the acting sucks, and the camera work sucks. This movie didn't have one redeemable quality.

I can't figure out how they could take such a great and hilarious book and make a heaping pile of crap that's suppose to be based on it. If someone knows please tell me. And I'd love to hear from tucker about this, I have now doubt that both he and his publicist read all these reviews. And here's a little piece of info for tucker, the movie didn't do poorly because of poor advertisement. It bombed because it SUCKED!!! Just like the new book.

Based on a bestseller that had a few chapters that were screaming funny. Somehow, this just did not translate into a great comedy movie. I consider myself right in the wheelhouse of the target market too; loved The Hangover (R-Rated Single-Disc Edition), Naked Gun, Monty Python movies, Jim Carrey fan, Animal House, etc.

I found myself in scene after scene trying to like this because of the book. That should never happen, and did not bode well. To be polite, this movie had a few moments. To be honest, it was sophomoric and forced, and painfully unfunny. Not even a grin. Not once. Fast forwarded through more than a few scenes. May have to retaliate next year for getting this as a Xmas present.

I read the book and thought it was funny. I'm not a Tucker Max fanboy or hater, but this movie was painful to sit through. It even made the book lose some of the humor in it because it felt so fake. If your a fan of the straight to DVD American Pie films then you may find a few laughs in this, otherwise save your time and money. The characters in this aren't interesting, the acting is bad, the plot is unoriginal and meaningless, and there just aren't many laughs. Every once in a while it will make you smirk but by the end of the movie you will have forgotten why. This is one film to avoid...

I got ten minutes or so into this movie and just had to stop. The movie looks like it was shot in a world that has given up on electric lighting its so dark. The camera work is awful and just adds to the mess.

The acting is just terrible. It looks like these guys are just reading off cue-cards with no feeling whatsoever. Furthermore, the voices just don't match what you are seeing on the screen its like a Japanese B-movie.

On to the content: in the ten minutes there were at least 40 one-liners that were supposed to get laughs. I did not laugh at one of them, not a chuckle. Not even an internal thought of "that was funny".

Maybe the movie picks up after the first ten minutes or so, but after witnessing what I did there was no way I was going to take the risk that the rest would be just as awful.

I'm a woman and I loved the first book. I expected a funny, sharp movie. Instead I got a movie with horrible lighting and production, characters I hated, and just general grossness. I loved Slingblade in the book--and I just finished AFF and I loved his Mr. Peepers routine...but in the movie he sounded like a serial killer, and frankly I just don't like serial killers. I guess I don't have a good sense of humor.

A very boring movie based on a very funny book. This movie is not funny and actually a snooze; I had to literally force myself to pay attention to it. The story is so cliched and just not humorous. The characters are unimaginative & uninteresting. I didn't care about a single character in this movie. The Drew character was horribly acted. The movie itself looks like amateur hour - I've seen better production on Youtube & Funny or Die. I would not tell anyone to waste their time on this flick.

To truly appreciate the phenom that is Tucker Max...you will have to read the book.

The book is hilarious. Chapter after chapter, young master Max hits and quits girl after girl. He's a genuinely funny narrator, even if you can't really feel any sympathy for him or his plight (even his humiliation at wildly defecating across a hotel lobby). He's a cad. And proud of it.

So now they tried to adapt this master work of hedonism to film.

The first thing I notice: the women are human. They're even smart and capable of taking on Tucker and his jibes and ruses. This was not in the book. He goes through woman after woman and they all appear to be suckers for his scams. So when one of the strippers becomes a quick-witted single mom I was falling in love with...I forgot where this movie came from. The movie forgot where it came from.

But it does make nice points and ties things up rather tidily, something I wondered how they could do with this wild man's life.

(The hotel lobby scene--featuring Traci Lords!--is, for me, the funniest part of the movie and I laughed so hard, I cried. The rest...not so much. Check out the book for the real deal!)

First of all, I highly recommend that ALL women avoid I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell. The entire first 30 minutes of storytelling is devoted to nothing but the meanest, most offensive and obnoxious jokes targeted towards women you can possibly imagine. We're talking a *highly* disrespectful movie here, folks.

If you're a guy who acts this way towards women... I sure hope you have somebody forcing bars of soap down your throat.

If that's not enough, the ignorant jokes keep on coming without any purpose or any desire to even create a storyline. The jokes are also said in a quick-witted and creative way, and none of it is even remotely funny. Sorry, but there comes a point where it's obvious a line has been crossed, and this movie is a perfect example of line crossing in its most brutal form. Ugh.

However, there IS a saving grace. Since the storyline is about a group of young men going around strip joints and humiliating women with clever intelligent wording, it's the way the storyline unfolds and gradually improves (and most importantly, the message BEHIND the storyline and how it's totally wrong to disrespect women to this extent) that actually makes the film not a complete disaster, and even allows it to approach "good" in a few spots towards the conclusion.

The final 45 minutes of storytelling involving a toilet/wedding incident really does save the movie from an easy 1-star rating.

However, there's no denying that the first 30 minutes were designed with the intention of just completely making women look like horrible human beings in every conceivable way with no storyline to speak of, and it's completely unacceptable in my book.

I really hope women despise this movie, and I hope most men out there hate it just as much. Thank God the moral of the story saves it somewhat. Besides that, the storyline itself barely qualifies as good and the acting is secondrate at best.

If you are at the time in your life where you don't want to give up the bathroom humor, but you like to drink in excess and have sex with strangers, then this film is for you. Tucker was hoping to make some sequels to this film, thanks to this film bombimg, they will never get made.

I reasonably enjoyed the book, up until the end when it started getting a little tedious. Most of the stories were pretty outrageous, if somewhat repetitive.

This movie, however, has almost nothing in common with the book. It's loosely based on one story in the whole collection. A better platform might have been a series of shorts or something, but trying to tie it all in with the crappiest, lamest story arc I have ever seen was a pretty horrible move. The casting was awful, especially in the part of Drew, the smart-ass, gynophobic, comic-book inclined friend of Tucker. The movie did nothing to capture the essence of the book, which was essentially a huge recollection of drunken rampages. The production values are non-existent. The actors exude no charisma. The characters in the book were somewhat conflicted and always interesting, except for Tucker. The characters in the movie are one-dimensional cardboard cutouts.

I watched this out of sheer horror, like watching an asteroid smash into a playground, or watching a semi-truck carrying litters of puppies burst into flame on the interstate. The whole time I was asking myself: how bad can a movie truly get? I can definitely see why this went straight to DVD.

The saddest part of this sordid affair is Tucker Max himself defending this movie, saying that it has the potential to become a cult classic. If by cult classic he means misunderstood during it's time, or so bad it's great, it's not quite at that level. Expect this at the bargain bin at K-Mart sometime in the near future.