So last night, as I had said on the main page of the site, I was planning on watching Tucker Max's "I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell", and this is what I have to say about it: It's a mediocre attempt at a comedy. That's the short answer. Let's get into an actual review.

The movie started off with some very bad camera work and a very intro at that. The lighting was terrible and the introduction joke was terribly played off as well, with Tucker fucking a deaf girl. Okay, so he tried and I'm sure some people will get a chuckle out of it, but it got a mere snort and a roll of the eyes from me. TheWife wasn't entertained. After that, the movie just got worse, especially with the poorly portrayed characters created by Tucker and Nils Parker.

The character Drew (played by Jesse Bradford - Hackers, Swimfan) was one of the most annoying characters in any movie I had ever seen. His side story of how he gets over his ex-cheating-fiance who blew some piss poor rapper was really just filler to the movie. In fact, if the Drew character didn't exist, it would have made the movie a lot more enjoyable and would receive a much better rating in my book. Let's begin with how much of a buzz-kill he is. I swear, if I, or any of my friends, acted close to the way he acted, we'd all be left with no friends. He's a miserable prick for the first half of the movie (maybe a little longer) until he hooks up with a stripper and falls for her and her child. Cliche? Sounds like a ripoff of "Pretty Woman" to me. No, he doesn't pay her to live with him or whatever, but up until some girl busts his balls because of his attitude, he's a douche bag. Every time he spoke, I was close to getting up and chucking the DVD out of the window. Luckily for Tucker, I was giving his movie an actual attempt at being decent.

The character Dan (played by Geoff Stults) was actually an alright character. He starts off being what seemed a domesticated guy who's settling down for the rest of his life with the one he loves, but is also a pussy when it comes to both his fiance and Tucker Max. He lets Tucker walk all over him and doesn't stand up to his fiance. Halfway through the movie, he does stand up for himself to Tucker and shows some spine, though it might have been a bit late for him at that point. Over all though, he was a decent character and I believe Geoff Stults just ran into some bad luck with being in this movie because he seems like a decent unknown actor.

The character Kristy (played by Keri Lynn Pratt - Drive Me Crazy) was about as entertaining as her other appearances in those C rated movies such as Cruel Intentions 2 and, albeit a Hollywood release, Drive Me Crazy. She sucks. Her voice is annoying, her character has no dimensions, and she just annoys me.

Tucker Max, played by Matt Czuchry, was the worst character out of them all. The fact that if he did portray Max to a "T" as Max is in real life, then Czuchry got the short end of the stick because he either sucks that bad at acting, or...well... he sucks at acting. There was no redeeming quality of this character. While he didn't annoy me as much as Drew, I believe I would've rather been annoyed for 2 hours by Drew than watch this sad attempt of a character trying to be funny and smooth.

The plot to the movie should already be known to everyone by now that has heard of this movie, but if you still have no idea, don't worry - you're not missing much. For this movie being classified as a comedy, I laughed only at 2 parts in the movie. The first was when the stripper fell. It looked like it was unintentional, and it fit in at the right time. The second is when Drew was having a visual of him telling Tucker about his night with the stripper and her son, when he kicked the son in the stomach or nuts...or something...the point is he kicked the kid, and it was random, unexpected, and funny. But even while I found these 2 scenes funny, I barely laughed at them. It was more than a slight chuckle, but nowhere near a gut busting laugh.

The script: I've read all of Tucker's stories on his website, and he's a pretty decent writer. He knows how to put words together that leads up to some comical relief, though I wouldn't say he's an award winning writer. I did give him the benefit of the doubt that he would be able to play off the script better and that it would be more entertaining that it actually was. Now, Nils Parker helped cowrite the screenplay, and I do believe that was a big reason why the script sucked so bad. You can tell it had fat kid written all over it when you had a scene with an athletically built character drooling over a "pancakewich", with the entire concocked pancakewich montage that you would see in a fat kids dream. Seriously...I hope Nils stops writing screenplays, short stories, or anything that involves creative thought because his idea of a good script is the McDonald's big mac theme song.

I tried to watch this movie with an open mindset, even after reading the horrible reviews, because I know how much people hate Tucker Max. Sure, his stories might be all fabricated and never occurred, but they made me laugh and a lot of other people. Also, who cares what he does anyways? If he wants to be an internet asshat who claims he's 100% truthful and can't back himself up, who cares? As for the movie - it was below mediocre. His dreams of it being a cult classic are far from ever happening. If I had to give it a rating out of 5 stars, it would be 1 and a half. Good try Tucker. At least you can say you made a movie.

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