THE GREATEST BEER RUN EVER

Based on true events, Zac Efron stars as Chickie Donohue, unemployed and living with his parents who sleeps all day and drinks all night. When a group of his friends from his Manhattan neighborhood all ship out to Vietnam, and with anti-war protests happening around the country, Chickie decides to bring a little Americana to his boys overseas in the form of 12 ounce cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer. Not being taken seriously at first as Chickie has a tendency to not follow through on things he previously said he was going to. Feeling like a mockery is being made at his expense, he psyches himself up and gets on a cargo ship to do what he said he was going to do. Being the idea is so preposterous, it's hard to decipher fact from fiction but it's still an initially interesting premise. However, once the novelty wears off the film drags and I quickly lost interest thereafter. Efron is noble in his performance but the main star for me was former WWII soldier and Irish pub owner, The Colonel (played by Bill Murray). At first the film isn't preachy in its stance on war as both sides are given opportunities to state their case. Chickie is pro-troops while his sister, Christine (Ruby Ashbourne Serkis) is anti-war. But, once Efron gets a taste of action and witnesses the horrors of war up close and personal, the film then drifts into an anti-war stance that is further promoted by war correspondent Arthur Coates (Russell Crowe) whom assists Efron during his journey. A disappointing film on director Peter Farrelly's resume as he's shown he's capable of much more. 4.5/10