The Greatest Beer Run Ever

"I started to wonder if this film wasn’t made just so people would be nicer to Farrelly’s last movie by comparison."

"(It) commits itself to regurgitating every Vietnam cliché with the laziest possible visual diction, led by an emotionally overextended Zac Efron."

"The film maintains an ambiguous, seriocomic tone, mingling sombre moments with touches of farce..."

"Shaggily appealing..."

"The intentions and performances are irrefutably sincere and noble. The execution almost always feels a little bit forced and a little bit false."

"(Crowe's) seriousness and professionalism inadvertently play almost as a rebuke of the entire movie."

"(A) half-baked shocker..."

"With such a cliché-laden script, the actors get lost completely."

"(Efron) does bring some dimension to the character, even as the picture fails to live up to his performance."

"The film doesn’t have the detail or imagination to fill in the gaps of a well-worn story with anything convincing."

"(The film is) a little like its protagonist: slightly misguided, but ultimately hard to resent."

"The Greatest Beer Run Ever is at its best early on, buoyed by Chickie’s unbelievable exploits. The truth hurts it."

"Of the locals, only one, a traffic cop played by Kevin Tran, is given even the barest outline of a character."

"The Greatest Beer Run Ever lumbers and meanders... (it) is only half-interesting and rather slipshod."

"The didacticism keeps dragging down whatever energy the movie attempts to muster."