I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
Tags: comedy

Plot synopsis:
Two police officers are called to report to a domestic disturbance, with the possibility of a severe case of animal abuse. Neighbors are reporting noises which sound like an animal being cruelly abused. The police barge into the apartment and find Tucker Max (Matt Czuchry) having rough sex with a girl doggy style. The girl is screaming like an animal. The officers, assuming that Tucker is raping her, throw him onto the floor. The girl, who was just denied her orgasm, yells at the cops who shake their heads in disgust when they realize that she was making the noise because she was deaf and cannot hear her own voice.The next day, Tucker arrives at his college and meets his friend Dan (Geoff Stills) in their law class. Dan is getting married next weekend and Tucker will be throwing Dan's bachelor party along with their friend Drew. He tells Dan about how the cops burst in and interrupted the sex, while Dan notes that since Tucker screwed a mute girl last semester, he is one disabled person away from a 'Helen Keller'. Tucker laughs at that and his law professor calls him out on the fact that he isn't paying attention. Tucker boldly states to his professor (and the class) that he wasn't since he was telling his friend about how he slept with a deaf girl. The professor thinks he's joking and then begins to grill him about whether or not people suffering from dwarfism should be protected by law. Tucker easily counters the professor's argument by pointing out that midgets already have protected status. The professor then mentions a midget stripper he represent pro bono to illustrate a further point, but once Tucker hears about the midget stripper he begins making arrangements. Tucker immediately leaves to go to Drew.Meanwhile, Drew (Jesse Bradford) is in his room playing the video game 'Halo' online in his special chair when Tucker calls him. Drew continues to play, barely reacting to the fact that Tucker is coming over. Tucker arrives at Drew's door and sees a box with his ex-fiancé's belongings with the label "Take what you wish since her box is open to all." Drew was recently dumped by his slut of a fiancée, whom he walked in on "giving a blow job to Paul Wall, the Grillionaire". As such, Drew has become embittered and spiteful toward women. Tucker tells Drew to come out with Dan for his bachelor party, and Drew reluctantly agrees.At a local bar, the 'Loathsome Lothario' Tucker hits on an attractive waitress and she flirts with him back. When Dan arrives, Tucker smacks the waitress' butt and rudely tells her to leave for he says that its time for man talk. The bartender is disgusted by this and tries to cut Tucker off, but Tucker just uses the waitress to get more booze. He insults the bartender, and when the bartender tries to go and beat him up, Dan steps up and intimidates the bartender with his imposing figure. Tucker then starts to persuade his friends to change the venue of the bachelor party. He wants to go to a strip club where "there are no limits, and you're allowed to touch the strippers". Tucker tells them that it is in Salem, a town three hours away from where they are. Dan is reluctant but Tucker talks both Dan and Drew to go through with it. As they leave the bar, Tucker gloats to the bartender and yells that he fingered the waitress.Tucker drives Dan to his house where Dan's fiancée Kristy (Keri Lynn Pratt) is going through the seating chart. Kristy mentions that her mother is coming in that night which upsets Dan because Dan thinks that Kristy's parents make everything incredibly lame and wouldn't allow him to have a bouncy castle at their engagement party. He then packs to go to Salem for the bachelor party, which upsets Kristy. She asks why he always puts Tucker in front of her, which Dan points out is untrue. He lists all the things he sacrificed to be with Kristy and that he wants to have fun for once. The situation gets tense, and Tucker decides to go into the house. He notices the couple fighting and times his entrance. He makes it sound like Dan was lying about going to Salem and then promises Kristy that they wouldn't be going. He promises to have her back before she wakes up. However, as soon as they leave the house, Tucker starts driving to Salem.As they drive, Dan expresses the fact that he is uncomfortable lying to Kristy. Tucker dismisses it and the trio continues their drive. As they randomly converse, Drew starts to complain about his hunger and demands a pancake-wich. Tucker scoffs at Drew and Drew delivers a rant about how tasty the 'Pancake-wich' is. They stop and get them and continue off to Salem.When they arrive, Tucker's first attempt at finding the strip club takes them to a crappy bar. Tucker shrugs off asking for directions by stating he was drunk the last time he visited the strip club. This assuages Dan's discomfort and the trio goes to a different bar. They quickly find another bar where a bachelorette party is being held. The trio makes friends with the group of ladies, but an uptight prude consistently annoys Tucker. Tucker insults her to the point where the other ladies become offended. That, combined with Drew's constantly misogynistic remarks, drives the girls away.After leaving the bar, the trio finds the strip club. A stripper goes over to Drew, but Drew easily scares her away with his casual comments about rape, murder and child abuse. As the trio drinks and engages in debauchery, one stripper named Lara (Marika Dominczyk) impresses Dan and Tucker by not only keeping up with Drew but brutally trumping Drews misogynistic insults with her own. Dan and Tucker are so impressed they pay her $200 to keep insulting Drew. After further rounds of insults, Lara challenges Drew to Halo, and goads him into leaving the bar with her. As Drew is preparing to leave, Kristy calls Dan. She and her mother are shopping for a bouncy castle and Kristy wants to know how the bachelor party is going. As they are talking, the announcer introduces the best stripper in Salem which Kristy hears and alarms her. She asks where they are and when Dan lies, he asks Tucker to back him up. Tucker instead has Drew take the phone and Drew flat out tells Kristy they went to Salem before leaving. Dan tries to do damage control, but it is clear Kristy is pissed off.Dan starts drinking out of anger with Tucker doing nothing to help. Tucker sees a girl and goes to hit on her, leaving Dan alone. Dan starts drinking when the proprietors of the club call him over since he is the bachelor of the night. Dan drunkenly stumbles over to the stage and a bunch of girls are about to give him a special dance. They grab his pants and Dan, shocked, elbows a girl in the nose. She bleeds and pushes him off the stage and he lands on a table with glasses. The bouncers throw him out of the club and Dan walks around in a drunken stupor. He eventually gets arrested for peeing on a dumpster and mocking a policeman.Meanwhile, Lara drives Drew to her place. Before they go inside, she tells them that she has a kid. They continue to trade insults, but Drew is visibly moved when he meets Lara's 10-year-old son, Jack. He teaches him how to set an L shaped ambush and the two bond. After Jack goes to bed, Lara beats Drew thoroughly at Halo. Drew tells her that she's doing a good job raising her kid by herself. Drew explains that as a child he was sent to his room and ignored by his parents. They come to understand one another and end up having sex.Dan, in the drunk tank, rants and raves about how he shouldnt be there. In his drunken state, he tries to organize a prison riot with the pendejos. Two cops enter the drunk tank and knock him out (giving him two black eyes to match his cut face). When Dan comes to, he has crusty vomit in his hair and most of the pendejos are gone. He tries calling Drew and Tucker, but they are both sleeping after getting laid. Dan calls Kristy, but Kristy's mother picks up and when he tells her that he is in jail, she just hangs up on him without telling Kristy what happened.The next day, Tucker picks up Drew and both find voicemails from Dan. They bail him out of jail and take him to get breakfast at a local diner where Tucker regales them with the tail of how he seduced the midget stripper and went to her place and had sex with her. When Tucker lets it slip that he had never been to the strip club before, Dan loses it. He expresses the fact that he may not even be engaged anymore because of Tuckers desire to sleep with a midget. Dan attacks Tucker, but Drew breaks up the fight. Dan takes a bus back to Kristy while Drew and Tucker drive back themselves.Dan begs Kristy for forgiveness and tells her that he's sorry. She takes him back and helps him clean up, but when her mother expresses disapproval, Kristy takes a stand and dismisses her mother. With the wedding a week away, the two get right down the business. Drew asks Tucker if he has apologized yet, but Tucker says that he will do it at the hotel before the wedding.One week later. Tucker, Drew, and Dan all prepare for the wedding separately and fly out to an Embassy Suites hotel before the wedding. Drew brings Lara and Jack as his guests. Tucker goes stag.. hoping to pick up and have sex at the wedding. Tucker goes to Dan and Kristy's room to apologize but Dan doesn't think its sincere. Dan shrugs it off with a whatever and leaves the hotel room. Kristy scolds Tucker and tells him that the apology wasn't sincere and that's why he was uninvited from the wedding. Tucker asks why she's uninviting him, but she makes it clear that she doesnt care if he's invited or not. This makes it clear that Dan is the one who doesn't want him at the wedding for what happened in Salem.Tucker, clearly a bit down, calls Drew to ask to go out drinking but Drew declines in order to see if his relationship with Lara can last. Tucker goes to a bar to drown his misery. He goes to a bar where he sees a young woman talking to a turtle. He asks if it is telling her to kill the fat girl by the bar, but when she gets upset, he says: "why are you angry, fat girls arent real people?" The girl by the bar hears that and Tucker and her get into an argument. When Tucker turns his back on her and places his drink on the bar, she puts eye drops into his drink (a la 'Wedding Crashers'). The fat girl and her companion leave, while Tucker takes his drink and heads to the bathroom.While waiting in line, he notices a very attractive woman in a red dress who introduces herself as Connie (Traci Lords). They flirt and she mentions that she is married, but Tucker doesn't care and lets her drink some of his beer. They hook up in the bathroom and Tucker takes her back to his hotel room. However, before they can have sex the tainted beer takes hold. Connie goes into the bathroom and clogs the toilet with her massive diarrhea. She abruptly leaves, leaving Tucker with a desperate need to take a dump of his own.Tucker takes the elevator to the lobby and asks the manager for the bathroom. He runs in the large lobby and can't see where the bathroom is. He runs to what looks like the mens room door and sees the janitor in her office. She points him in the direction of the bathroom. He waddles toward it but only makes it half way as he starts to crap himself. He craps all over the floor until he makes it to the bathroom and clogs the first toilet. Once he moves over to the next stall, he sees that there is no toilet paper, so he uses his shirt to wipe himself. He leaves the bathroom naked and sees the janitor with tears in her eyes, looking at the crap spread all over the floor. Tucker then goes to the elevator and stares at his reflection, hoping that they serve beer in hell.The next morning, Dan gets married to Kristy. At the ceremony Dan's brother (played by the real Tucker Max), Dan's best man, gives a speech congratulating Dan. Tucker listens and then goes over and takes the mike from him and delivers a speech. He recounts the events in the lobby, and tells the crowd that he realized then that he never cleaned up his own shit before until the night before, when the maid went upstairs and made Tucker literally clean his own shit. He tells the crowd that Dan was his best friend and that he had been cleaning up Tucker's shit for a long time. He apologizes and brings the wedding parties outside to look at the large bouncy castle he ordered for Dan.Dan accepts Tucker's apology and he, Tucker and Drew jump into the bouncy castle. Afterwards, Drew calls "bullshit" on Tucker's story and Tucker tells his friends the real short story which is that instead of helping the janitor clean his shit, he just gave her money instead. Tucker then sees a hot blind girl and goes to seduce her and attain the Helen Keller. Dan says "That's my cousin" and he and Drew follow him.

Review: Having read the book a couple of years ago, I followed the movie's production blog with great excitement.Tucker mentioned possible Oscar nomination for the script, more than $200M at the box office and revolutionizing Hollywood.I walked into the theater with 2 other male friends in late 20s - both lawyers, one of whom actually went to Duke.
It hints at redemption but instead sees the opportunity as a chance for another half-wit joke.On the plus side, a movie like this can serve as a useful metric for people you know and/or have just met- If they like this movie, or Tucker Max, then you'll know said person is a douche-bag..
I had a chance to hear Tucker Max talk about the movie at a screening and he seemed quite confident that it would surpass Wedding Crashers as the highest grossing comedy of all time.
If you are a huge Tucker Max fan and feel the urge to see the movie, just re-read the book.
All the clever diatribes and snipes one after another just seem like things you wish you'd said after the fact.Movies are supposed to be about escape and I just couldn't relax into a world where this guy gets away with so much crap and basically walks away unscathed, having learned nothing..
"I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell" is a poorly scripted R-rated fratboy comedy based on Tucker Max's book of the same name.
The movie is based on the so-called "true" stories of Tucker Max's book.
The problem is that it is now coming out that these stories are likely not that true (and heavily exaggerated) and cinema exposes the weak storytelling of mishmashed comedic moments shoehorned into a script that is designed to glorify Tucker Max - the character and the author - at the expense of drama, comedy and internal logic.The one positive note would be the quality of the acting.
Having personally only had the "benefit" of skimming the book picked up from a bookstore clearance table, I can only judge this product as a standalone product: and it's awful.I'm tempted to blame the actors, but it's only because almost every character in the movie is just so unlikeable.
I have never seen a movie where anyone that has an ounce of integrity or shows a sign of a moral compass is depicted as the bad guy and gets brutally shot down every time.I can appreciate a good antihero; it's just that even the "worst" of them usually have some kind of vulnerability or we at least understand their motivation or there is a foil to their character to show them the way or there is a "real" bad guy to root against.
Unfortunately, the Tucker Max character is so irredeemable that by the end of the movie there is nothing he can reveal about himself that justifies his malice.This is in addition to the fact that the movie is ugly to look at, lacking the production values of most straight-to-DVD movies (which I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell should have been)..
Remember when Alan accidentally gave his friends roofies thinking it was Ecstasyoh Sorry about that, I was accidentally reviewing "The Hangover," which is what "I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell" is without the funny, wit, good writing, and personality.
I read somewhere that the writer of the screenplay of this movie (and author of the book on which it was based) claimed that this film was going to be better than "The Hangover." That made me laugh more than any part of this movie did!
I have to wonder though how some guy that looks and acts like he just rolled out of bed thinks he knows how to become a screenwriter after reading books for 6 months.
My one friend who came with me to the movie said, "It wasn't as good as I thought it was going to be." I would be embarrassed recommending this film to anyone.
I still think Tucker's web site and book are pretty funny, but if you want to be entertained, don't bother with the movie version of I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell..
I thought Dan's character was spot on and well drawn, while Drew's attitude may have been a little extreme, and Tucker just seemed slightly "off" somehow but overall a good representation.
If I was the director I would have spent more time telling other stories from the book to help establish the characters, and then move into a condensed version of the film as it is for the second half.
I enjoyed "The Hangover" very much and thought it was funny, but some of things that happened in it really took me out of the movie.
The story was pretty good, although I can see where people are saying it was like the hangover -- but what I don't agree with is when they said it wasn't funny.
This is not a terrible movie, but it's not very good either.I have not read the book but I have read and enjoyed the stories from Tucker's website in the past.That said I was expecting more from this movie.
I honestly think this could have been made better but cutting about 15-20 minutes out of the film - of course by then the whole thing would have been about 45 minutes long.There are some funny scenes but the rest just seems to be filler material.
The guy who plays Tucker does a great job, he's very likable and a very good actor.If you like your movies a little more intelligent than The Hangover, then see this one, it doesn't disappoint.
I read the book and was slightly more than pleased of what I had read, all while thinking "what a great movie this could be" and "maybe if a movie comes out, it may end up being one of those extremely popular, high grossing cult films that every college kid has in their DVD collection!" Pleased, the movie comes out and I have a beer in hand and ready to watch what could be the best comedy ever.
If the movie character Tucker Max is a reflection of the author then he really should get into therapy - not funny, nor a good writer.
The lighting or some of the acting may come off as very cheesy, but the exchanges between Tucker Max and people that stand in his way are quite funny.
"I hope they serve beer in hell" portrays Tucker Max the way he was meant to be portrayed ignoring what a Rotten Tomato reviewer may find funny.
Despite the guy who played Tucker being a seemingly likable guy in reality, he is so utterly repulsive in this movie (due to the script and the things he's forced to do in it) that about a quarter of the way in you don't even want to follow him around anymore.
I could go on forever about all of the reasons why this movie was terrible and simply didn't work on any level, but for the sake of the 1,000 word limit, I'll just say that by the time I was done watching this movie I actually felt bad for Tucker Max-- And then I read his last post on his blog in which he sourly admitted that the movie was not financially successful at the box office but then turned around and said that it's going to become a classic on DVD, make tons of money and "spawn sequels".
The acting is solid, nothing spectacular but the actors did a great job portraying regular characters in crazy situations.Those who disparage the movie most likely hate Tucker Max and either did not see the movie or are completely blind to a smart humor.
Even though in reality Tucker Max may be a pretentious git and 'I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell' is by no means among the best in comedy, I actually enjoyed the film.
For me the best scenes were with Drew and I enjoyed watching his love story with Lara unfold.The acting is quite good.
From Tucker Max's website; he gets excessively drunk at inappropriate times, disregards social norms, indulges every whim, ignores the consequences of his actions, mocks idiots and posers, sleeps with more women than is safe or reasonable, and just generally acts like a raging d*ck-head, and I loved every second of it.This movie should be compared with The Hangover.
I've seen Judi Dench movies that were funnier than this.I wanted to walk out but the flight attendant wouldn't let meObnoxious, unlikeable characters with a stale, unoriginal thin plot line, and a lot of alcohol does not make a comedy.
'I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, based on the "fratire" books by Tucker Max is a parody of douchebags: the tall, good-looking, tanned meatheads who assumes every girl wants them and acts without consequence.Tucker is such a person: a self-centered idiot who uses his friends to fulfill his desires.
When Tucker abandons his friends for his own selfish needs, he is finally forced to evaluate his true nature.While 'Hell' is a fairly conventional take on the books, it's the characterisation which makes it worth watching.
This along, with the angst wit and angry humor that is often shown in the book, makes him the unintended focal character of the film.But seriously, I feel that everyone must see this movie.
Even if I ignored the horrible production values, the characters were totally unlikeable and the jokes were either out-of-date, fell flat or were just crude shock talk someone tried to pass off as envelope-pushing edginess.I loved the book, and I really wasn't expecting this film to be even half has good.
What bothers me about a well-crafted film such as this one is that audience members are so caught up in their sheltered, private worlds that they are not able to comprehend the difference between "mainstream" characters and characters that are actually realistic in their depiction.Though Tucker's character was slightly over-played, I've known quite a few people like him.
His two friends, their lives, and their attitudes also closely resemble people I have known throughout my life.Though I didn't receive consistent laughs from this film, I ended up watching it as a simple drama, and on that note, I enjoyed it quite a bit.There is a lot of attention to detail that will simply fly right over the head of the average viewer.
Everything that came out of Drew's mouth and his later love interest absolutely shocked me - I never thought a movie would actually get the real-world "geek lingo" right on the money.Of course, the average person would not understand such a fine touch as Lara saying "fear the pink mist", or Drew's use of the incredibly vulgar REAL underground slang "c**dumpster".Long story short, this was one of the best and most accurate portrayals of the real-world people it was alluding to I have ever seen.
Well I can only assume that the people who bash this movie and any other stupid humor flick are ones that can't pull themselves out of their mothers basements long enough to cry at the outside world how stupid everyone is and then directly step down off of their self righteous pedestal, and return to their self-loathing positions as the trolls guarding their morbidly obese, over protective mothers bed pan.Get off it douches, is it that hard to enjoy something without having to justify the worth of the person who's work you obviously don't and will never like.
Considering the script was written by Tucker Max, that's not right.Jesse Bradford's Drew is the highlight of the movie.
It's so hard to praise a movie that is shamelessly sexist and gratuitously dirty in its content, but somehow, some conceivable way, I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell is very funny.
It works on a level almost not possible because every character is fully developed, packs in urgency, and is heavy on their wit because of the great writing put behind them.The novel of the same name was written by Tucker Max, who serves as the main writer on the film.
That makes it somewhat acceptable.The story is centered around Tucker Max and his quest to give his pal Dan (Stults) a great bachelor party by going to a strip club in Salem where the "no touch" rule is not enforced.
It was as if the movie had been butchered.Loosely adapted from "The Austin Road Trip Story" in Tucker Max's book I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, the movie centers on Tucker Max (Matt Czuchry) and his buddies Dan (Geoff Stults) and Drew (Jesse Bradford).
Tucker must work to make things right with his friends so he can attend the wedding.The movie was unfunny, disgusting, bland, and overall extremely bad.
Basically I liked it all around and can't really think of a worth while fault.It's good if you want an easy going laugh, if you're going to compare it to other movies, and constantly critique every scene, then you probably won't enjoy it.
I am a big fan of the American Pie movies and while this is not up to the standard of the first 3 of those it is still worth watching.Like one of the previous reviewers I cannot understand why this has such a low rating and like her, I now rarely trust the IMDb ratings anymore.A good movie that made me laugh and I recommend it to others who want something that takes no brain power but still entertains.I found this much funnier than almost all of Will Ferrell's movies..
For many guys (especially those of college age), Tucker Max's book, "I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell" is something of a Holy Bible.
I had read a few of Tucker Max's writings and, whilst funny, I couldn't imagine a movie being made.The minute the character Drew opened his mouth, I knew I was going to love the movie.
I had never heard of Tucker Max when I watched this movie OnDemand.
This is basically a shock comedy with a lot of crude humor, which is fine but the dialogue is poor although it tries way too hard to be witty, although ain't going to really complain about the plot for these types of film, just wasn't good, the acting is mediocre and none of the three main characters were likable.
I do not want to give away the whole film, only suffice to say Tucker was not a good friend or even human being for that matter.
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell is one of the worst movies I've seen in a long time.
As a big fan of Tucker Max's bestseller of the same name, I decided to throw caution (a 4.8 rating on IMDb) to the wind and went to see the movie adaptation of I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell this afternoon.
I figured that the movie probably was not as bad as people were saying, and that the rating on that site was probably inaccurate between the many Tucker haters/fanboys who voted (which is definitely the case, over 50% of the votes on that site are either a 1 or a 10).However, I was pleasantly surprised by what I saw.The movie does not do anything groundbreaking with the storyline, Tucker (Matt Czuchry) drags his best friends Dan (based on book Character Goldenboy, played by Geoff Stults) who is getting married, and Drew (based on character SlingBlade, played by Jesse Bradford) 3.5 hours away to a strip club in Salem the night that Dan's devoutly baptist mother-in-law is coming into town to finalize the last of the wedding plans, for the event that is only a week away.
I actually think he overacts at spots that makes the delivery of some of the jokes a tad awkward (an example of this is his line in the trailer where he says "if it doesn't have a price, it's probably worthless"), but most of the time he's spot on.Geoff Stults is probably the most consistent actor of the three, as Dan. He is very solid throughout, and his seen inside the jail is very, very funny.The two lead actresses, Keri Lynn Pratt as Kristy, Dan's fiancée, and Marika Dominczyk as Lara (a stripper who ironically develops into Drew's love interest) both play strong roles and help balance out the male leads, and reel in their personalities.The movie is definitely not flawless by any means.
Max's co-writer, Nils Parker, also makes a long cameo as the strip club's emcee.Overall the movie might not be the best comedy of the year, I thought that The Hangover was better, and I laughed more as I watched Transformers 2, both about how bad the movie in front of me was, and at myself for actually paying to see that pile of crap, but it was definitely worth the price of admission.
The reviews are severely underrating I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, the movie deserves much better rating as well as ticket sales compared to what it is getting.7/10..
I haven't seen a good comedy(laughing movie) in a long time.
As in reality, it takes some time to understand these kinds of people and get to know them (due to their inability to open up and make themselves vulnerable to others) - but the characters do develop and we learn a great deal about their pasts and who these people really are.You will pick out characters in this movie as people you know in your own life - the three main gents are very stereotypically boxed in their personality flaws - the intellectual too smart for his own good that can't relate to anyone - the misogynist that isn't, but can't communicate his real feelings - the narcissist that can't think of anyone but himself.
I thought was great cause I know a few people that could of been in that movie in real life.i liked the Drew characters intelligent comedy.