Canadian Jedi eh?

[kivaanzion]

Not too sure where I would put this...

In 1983 there was a comedy film called "Strange Brew" about two Canadian bumbling idiots who help stop a plot to take over the world (or at least Canada) by putting a mind control drug in a popular beer.

The main characters Bob Mackenzie and his brother Doug (played by Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas), also happened to be huge Star Wars fans. Strange Brew starts out with Bob and Doug making their own short fan film (I think called "Beer Wars").

While surfing I found a couple of QT wav files from the movie.

"Darth Doug attempts to lure Luke to the Darkside..."
www.alicia-logic.com/dflysounds/007_ImYourFather.WAV

"Doug explains to the bad guys why they lost..."
www.alicia-logic.com/dflysounds/008_PowerOfTheForce.WAV

Coincidently, the movie also stars Angus McInnis who played Gold Leader in ANH.

[lazlototh]

I love that movie!

"Go to the Dark Side of the Force, you nob!"

Oh yeah!!!

[Ani-Chay Pinn]

I saw Strange Brew in the theater when it came out. Very funny, but sort of a niche kind of humor, I think. I'd forgotten about the McKenzie brother's "fan film".

[kivaanzion]

I was so excited by the QT files I bought the dvd yesterday.

I haven't watched this film in years (maybe decades). Man this movie made me laugh out loud a lot!

A few inside jokes for us Canucks. Geez! Did we really talk like that in the 80's? LOL!

The Mackenzie "fan film" wasn't a Star Wars spoof at all. More of an Omega Man flavour to it.

I knew Angus played an ex-hockey player, but I had forgotten he was playing a French-Canadian 'ockey player eh? He had the accent down pat!

Another thing I learned this time around: in one cliffhanger scene, the Mackenzie brothers drive off the end of a pier after the brakes of their van are sabotaged. When police divers find the sunken van, Bob, Doug and Angus are inside still alive. The back of the van was filled with hundreds of empty beer bottles- all with a small supply of air that our heroes were using to stay alive. I always thought they were just drinking beer to stay alive (I was 13 when I first saw the film). LOL!