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From: grw@fortune.UUCP (Glenn Wichman)
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Subject: Strange Brew Review
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Date: Wed, 31-Aug-83 12:36:16 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 31 12:36:16 1983
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	The "McKenzie Brothers" exhibit in this movie the strange
    art once monopolized by Mel Brooks:  Making movies which combine
    "Low-brow" and "High-Brow" humor.  Mel Brooks had movies, in my
    opinion, which appealed to "intellectuals", and threw in some
    burping jokes to satisfy "non-intellectuals".
	Strange Brew comes at it from the other side.  It definitely
    bills itself as "Low-Brow" humor -- Three Stooges style physical
    comedy and lots of gags about bodily functions -- but then it
    keeps cropping up with subtle & very sophisticated jokes.  If
    you see Strange Brew, and you know Hamlet real well, you will see
    what I mean.
	Also, the movie has a \real/ plot.  Aside from the sillyness,
    there is actual intrigue, suspense, etc.
	In case you haven't gathered by now, I liked the movie, and
    I definitely recommend it.  (I also get off on the Canadian scenery,
    I admit it.)
	P.s. I paid $5.00 for the film, and didn't mind.

					-Glenn R. Wichman