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  • 2022
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  • 2022
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  • 2 h 6 m

Summary To show support for his neighborhood friends serving in Vietnam, Chickie Donohue (Zac Efron) decides to do something totally outrageous: travel to the frontline by himself to bring the soldiers a little piece of home — their favorite can of American beer. However, what started as a well-meaning journey quickly turns into the adventure of...

Directed By: Peter Farrelly

Written By: Peter Farrelly, Brian Hayes Currie, Pete Jones, Chick Donohue, J.T. Molloy

  • 2022
  • R
  • Apple TV+
  • 2 h 6 m
  • 2022
  • R
  • Apple TV+
  • 2 h 6 m

The Greatest Beer Run Ever

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 30 Critic Reviews
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Summary To show support for his neighborhood friends serving in Vietnam, Chickie Donohue (Zac Efron) decides to do something totally outrageous: travel to the frontline by himself to bring the soldiers a little piece of home — their favorite can of American beer. However, what started as a well-meaning journey quickly turns into the adventure of...

Directed By: Peter Farrelly

Written By: Peter Farrelly, Brian Hayes Currie, Pete Jones, Chick Donohue, J.T. Molloy

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 30 Critic Reviews
39
13% Positive
4 Reviews
53% Mixed
16 Reviews
33% Negative
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 30 Critic Reviews
39
13% Positive
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53% Mixed
16 Reviews
33% Negative
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75
Sep 15, 2022
Like “Green Book,” The Greatest Beer Run Ever is a broad historical outing based on real people and real events, condensed down into an essence that can only be billed as “crowd-pleasing.” The trick this time: Farrelly seems far more aware of how he’s playing fast and loose with history to offer a zippy feature to a fractured world. Dare we say it: It works far better.
By Kate Erbland FULL REVIEW
60
Sep 30, 2022
Farrelly shows us the formative experience, but only a little of its consequence. Perhaps too much consideration of that would make the whole thing seem something less than great.
By Richard Lawson FULL REVIEW
50
Sep 22, 2022
Depth comes from Efron’s visible difficulty maintaining a smile as he comes to sense that he’s crossed the ocean only to discover a permanent gulf between him and his childhood friends. They’ve endured agonies he’ll never understand — and a barfly like him can’t deliver a cheers that will set things right.
By Amy Nicholson FULL REVIEW
40
Oct 2, 2022
It’s hard to tell if The Greatest Beer Run Ever is a comedy that wants to be a drama or a drama that wants to be a comedy. Of course, a film can be both. This one, alas, is neither.
By Bilge Ebiri FULL REVIEW
40
Sep 14, 2022
[Farrelly's] latest commits itself to regurgitating every Vietnam cliche with the laziest possible visual diction, led by an emotionally overextended Zac Efron.
By Charles Bramesco FULL REVIEW
30
Sep 14, 2022
“The Greatest Beer Run Ever” lumbers and meanders, and not just because the structure isn’t there. What we’re seeing, on a human level, is only half-interesting and rather slipshod. Like “Green Book,” “Greatest Beer Run” is based on a true story, but what Peter Farrelly responded to in that story translates, this time, into a token “relevant” boomer nostalgia that hasn’t been fully thought through.
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW
20
Sep 14, 2022
Feels manipulative and glib ... Farrelly’s tendency toward simplistic bromides in Green Book is even more egregious here.
By Tim Grierson FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Living Films, Skydance Media
Release Date Sep 23, 2022
Duration 2 h 6 m
Rating R
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Tagline Friendship has no last call.
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