History Film / StrangeBrew

[[caption-width-right:310:[[CanadaEh Beauty, eh?]]]]

* CanadaEh: EVERYWHERE in the movie. Our heroes use it almost like punctuation, and even one of the characters that's NotTooDeadToSaveTheDay adds "Nice effects, eh?" to his warning.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Claude says he doesn't have the stomach for [[EvenEvilHasStandards murdering his own niece]] even though he aided in helping Smith murder Claude's own brother, which Smith outright states to him.

* SawStarWarsTwentySevenTimes: Bob says that Doug saw [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Jedi]] 17 times.

* StylisticSuck: Bob and Doug's [[ShowWithinAShow Movie Within A Movie]], ''Mutants of 2051 AD'', has supremely cheap costumes, very bad cinematopgraphy, and overwrought narration.

In it, half-wit Canadian brothers Bob and Doug [=McKenzie=] (Moranis and Thomas) plan to obtain free beer by working at the Elsinore Brewery, where Pamela Elsinore (Lynne Griffin), the heiress, is troubled over the death of her father, John Elsinore, the owner of the brewery. Unbeknownst to Bob and Doug, but knownst to Pamela, Brewmeister Smith (Creator/MaxVonSydow) plans to introduce mind controlling drugs into their beer to take over the world.

In it, half-wit Canadian brothers Bob and Doug [=McKenzie=] (Moranis and Thomas) plan to obtain free beer by working at the Elsinore Brewery, where Pamela Elsinore (Lynne Griffin), the heiress, is troubled over the death of her father, John Elsinore, the owner of the brewery. Unbeknownst to Bob and Doug, but knownst to Pamela, Brewmeister Smith (Creator/MaxVonSydow) wants to unleash a hostile takeover to release a hypnosis-laced beer to the world.

* KnightOfCerberus: While he sometimes plays the OnlySaneMan to the oddities of the other character, Mr. Smith himself is a megalomaniacal madman who intends to take over the world by turning his customers into brainwashed slaves and his willingness to kill in cold blood to make sure his plans succeed is played as darkly straight as possible.

* DidNotThinkThingThrough: The crux of Smith's plan revolves around people taking Eisenore Beer in order to be put under MindControl for his world conquest plan to work. However, it has two crucial flaws that are mentioned within the film. First, people would eventually tell the oddities of the taste by comparing it to other beers- eventually putting two and two together that Eisenore Beer is responsible for the potential rise of brainwashed subjects. Secondly and more important, Rosie mentions it wears off over time even if you continue to drink the special brew. Either Smith would eventually work out the kinks or his hubris left him this short-sighted.

* DidNotThinkThingThrough: The crux of Smith's plan revolves around people taking Eisenore Beer in order to be put under MindControl for his world conquest plan to work. However, it has two crucial flaws that are mentioned within the film. First, people would eventually tell the oddities of the taste by comparing it to other beers- eventually putting two and two together that Eisenore Beer is responsible for the potential rise of brainwashed subjects. Secondly and more important, Rosie mentions it wears off over time even if you drew the special brew. Either Smith would eventually work out the kinks or his hubris left him this short-sighted.

* FakedFoodContaminant: Bob and Doug try to obtain free beer by taking a bottle with a mouse in it. ''A live mouse'' they raised inside a beer bottle. Their efforts to scam the brewery kick off the plot.

* GroinAttack: Happens to Doug when he and Bob were playing hockey.

* IKnowMaddenKombat: The asylum inmates are trained through mind control to fight utilizing hockey equipment. Played straight with [=LaRose=] and The Mackenzie Brothers, who do play Hockey.
* InflatingBodyGag: Happens to Bob when he and Pamela were trapped in a tank by Brewmeister Smith. Bob simply drinks all the beer being poured in the tank (off-screen, though) and he swells to about 10 to 20 times his size, saving them both, but he needs to pee badly afterwards.

* KangarooCourt: The whole trial scene, considering the Bob and Doug's so called defence attorney is on the payroll of the MagnificentBastard, and the degree of ineptitude and how easily obviously faked evidence is admitted. The trial is never seen through to its conclusion -- the court adjourns and sends Bob and Doug to the mental institution, but a final verdict is never handed out, nor a sentence.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: A police diver goes down in the lake to find the [=McKenzie=] brothers' van, presumingt hat he's recovering corpses. But not only are the brothers (and the LoveInterest) still alive, they're drinking beer. The scuba cop shows his badge to Doug, who shows the cop his driver's license, thinking he's being pulled over.

* ButtMonkey: Claude Elsinore is bossed around in hilariously abusive ways by Brewmeister Smith.

* ClassicalAntiHero: The crux of the plot is about Bob and Doug getting free beer by working at the brewery. To be fair, Bob does have a higher moral ground than Doug, i.e. giving a refund to an angry man who took his kids to see ''Mutants of 2051 AD'', which kick-started the plot in the first place.
* ComedicHero: The [=MacKenzie=] brothers are the ones who ultimately save the day, but are the butt of many of the jokes.
* ComicallySmallBribe: Bob and Doug bribe an Elsinore receptionist for information with a donut... it works... twice.

* TheFaceless: Bob and Doug's parents. Their dad is voiced by none other than Creator/MelBlanc.
** They're seen in a later scene. The father is played by Dave Thomas and the mother is played by Rick Moranis.

* HeroicDog: Hosehead near the end of the movie.
* IdiotHero: Heroes, in this case, as neither of the brothers comes across as particularly intelligent. They manage to stumble into the plot to TakeOverTheWorld and thwart it [[SpannerInTheWorks entirely by accident]].

* KangarooCourt: The whole trial scene appears to be one considering the Bob and Doug's so called defence attorney is on the payroll of the MagnificentBastard, that and the degree of ineptitude and how easily obviously faked evidence is admitted, though the trial is never seen through to its conclusion (the court adjourns and sends Bob and Doug to the mental institution, but a final verdict is never handed out, nor a sentence).

* MoodWhiplash: Bob and Doug driving into the water at the pier, and subsequent scenes until it turns out that they, and the hockey player/LoveInterest that saved Pamela's life, are still alive.
* NeverGetsDrunk: Bob drinks ''an entire vat's'' worth of beer and is perfectly fine!

* NoNameGiven: Pam's mother is never named by name in the movie, but anyone familiar with the story wouldn't be surprised if it's Gertrude[[note]]Confirmed by the end credits.[[/note]].

* PapaWolf: Pam's father, despite being dead!

* RecycledInSpace: this is Hamlet, IN A BREWERY!

%% * SpoiledSweet: Pam is quite possibly the sweetest multi-million-dollar heiress you'll ever meet.

* StylisticSuck: Bob and Doug's [[ShowWithinAShow Movie Within A Movie]], ''Mutants of 2051 AD''.

* TakeThat: Towards British new wave bands.
* ThemeMusicPowerup: When Doug leads the asylum inmates to attack Claude.

** Smith never learns that the drug in the beer would wear off over time because Rosie continued to pretend to be addicted to it.

* FakedFoodContaminant: Half-wit Canadian brothers Bob and Doug McKenzie try to obtain free beer by taking a bottle with a mouse in it. ''A live mouse'' they raised inside a beer bottle. Their efforts to scam the brewery kick off the plot.

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* DrivingADesk: Parodied and Lampshaded as Bob and Doug discuss the trope during the scene and Bob, the driver, takes his hands off the wheel to lean back and relax.