Strange Brew

“Take off, eh!” Canada’s favorite beer-swilling brothers, Bob and Doug McKenzie (Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas), make their leap from SCTV to the silver screen in this hilariously low-brow reimagining of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. When the brothers attempt to scam a local brewery out of free beer by putting a mouse in a bottle, they accidentally stumble into a sinister corporate conspiracy at Elsinore Brewery. The villainous Brewmaster, Smith (Max von Sydow), is using a secret additive in the beer to mind-control the masses via musical signals. Packed with “hoser” wit, steamrolling hockey themes, and a flying dog, Strange Brew is a cult classic of 80s Canadian comedy that’s as refreshing as an ice-cold two-four. It’s a dizzying, beer-soaked adventure that proves you don’t need a high IQ to save the world—just a copper kettle and a lot of luck. Co-starring the legendary Paul Dooley and Lynne Griffin, it’s a masterpiece of the “idiot-hero” genre that’s still a beauty, eh!