If it weren't for the fact that I routinely look up Movie Trailers online, I never would have known that this film was coming out when it was. As there was almost no advertising whatsoever for this film, and I only happened to stumble upon it a mere week or so before it's theatrical release. The film, I Hope they Serve Beer in Hell, was actually a book first. Written by Tucker Max, a character in the actual film, making it semi autobiographical I guess. Though if there really is a person like Tucker Max in the real world, he has to be one of the biggest assholes in the world!
The film is essentially about a group of three seemingly close friends, Tucker, Drew and Dan, though from their interactions on screen you really have no idea why since it doesn't come across as so. The basic plot is that Dan is soon to married, Drew just broke up with a long time girlfriend and it super bitter as a result, and Tucker wants to take them all to some remote town for an impromptu Bachelor Party for Dan. Dan's fiancee stereotypically doesn't want him to attend because of Tucker's history of engaging in less than model behavior and dragging his friends down with him, which leads to Tucker lying to Dan's fiancee about the Bachelor Party trip.
Your usual brand of cinematic, sophomore, drunken, bachelor party hi jinx ensues with some minor boughts of Hilarity. They all get drunk at the strip club, Drew winds up with one of the strippers who happened to have a heart of gold ( and a kid), Dan lands in the poke for the night due to drunk nd disorderly conduct, and Tucker gets to bang a midget stripper...It seems Tucker has a bizarre fetish for screwing handicapped women, and the only reason he chose to have Dan's Bachelor party in (name state/city later) in the first place is because he heard there was a midget stripper there. Eventually his friends find out, as does Dan's fiancee, and Tucker is left to ponder why he is suddenly alone with no one who cares about him.
Unable to see that any of his behavior was having a negative affect on his friends.
Initially when I was viewing this film, I didn't actually see too much wrong with Tucker's behavior. At least so much to label him a total deuschbag. For aside from the fact that he was self centered and a misogynist, he didn't really do anything to anyone. Aside from women that is, as he treated and talked to them ike shit. hence the reason why he was subjected to a little does of "Bartender's Friend." Which for those of you who have never Bar Tended, is when someone put some eye drops into your drink because they don't like you or want you to go away. As the chemicals if ingested give you horrible, uncontrollable and prolonged diarrhea. Leading to one of the film's finniest as well as nastiest scenes in the film where Tucker is roaming the hotel lobby in his underwear looking for a place to go to the bathroom, but ending up shitting his pants and the floor literally! I am not one for bathroom humor on this scale, as I was pretty grossed out, but it was funny to see. Though even if your hotel room bathroom is clogged, I think I would use the shower/bath tub before running around my hotel to find anotehr toilet. But it's a movie and not brain surgery.
Which brings me to the overall look and feel of the film. As I think it showed some promise as a whole, since some of the dialogue was really good, and the characters managed to deliver their lines with a certain amount of skill and poise for the most part, But every once in awhile their lines would fall flat or you would wonder why are these people even hanging out with on another as they don't even seem to like one another, but I assume that was all from the act that this was an independent film. lacking a lot of the star and directional power that bigger scale films have or at least are privy to. All of the actors in teh film were also unknown for the most part, aside from Jesse Bradford playing the super negative Drew. Who you wonder why anyone would want to be around let alone stand for more than 2 minutes at a time.
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