‘I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell,’ Then Serve Up the Filmmakers

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CHICAGO – The main problem with “I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell,” based on Tucker Max’s memoir about a hard partying, devil-may-care womanizer, is that the screenwriter (Max himself) didn’t have the cojones to go all the way.

Rating: 1.0/5.0

If Max is going to relate this “based-on-fact” story, so awesomely politically incorrect, why not just take it to the limit and make it totally offensive, instead of trying to placate the “audience” with stupid – and unbelievable – happy endings and upper middle class banalities like getting married and celebrating “relationships.”

I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell is the adventurous story of three young lads who set out to have a grand time on friend Dan’s (Geoff Stults) bachelor party, by kidnapping him against the wishes of his intended and going to out-of-town Salem, where apparently they have a strip club where you can touch the girls all you want. That’s called prostitution in most territories, apparently except Salem.

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Boys of Bummer: Geoff Stults as Dan, Jesse Bradford as Drew and Matt Crzuchry as Tucker Max in ‘I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell’ Photo credit: Copyright © Freestyle Releasing, All Rights Reserved

Continue reading for Patrick McDonald’s full review of “I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell”