Strange Brew (also known as The Adventures of Bob & Doug McKenzie: Strange Brew) is a 1983 Canadian comedy film starring the popular SCTV characters Bob and Doug McKenzie, portrayed by Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis, who also served as co-directors. Co-stars include Max von Sydow, Paul Dooley, Lynne Griffin and Angus MacInnes.
In 1981, Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas recorded a Bob and Doug McKenzie comedy album, The Great White North, which sold a million copies.[4] Based on this success, they thought about parlaying that into a feature film.[5] After fellow SCTV cast member John Candy got an offer from Universal Pictures to do a film called Going Berserk, Moranis and Thomas started talking about writing a screenplay for a Bob and Doug film. Andrew Alexander, executive producer for SCTV reminded them that he had exclusive contracts with the two men and if they wrote a script he would sue them.[5] Moranis and Thomas soon found themselves faced with the challenge of expanding their improvisations on SCTV from “two guys talking about how hard it was to get parking spaces in donut shops to a full-length story”, Thomas said in an interview.[4]

They hired Steve De Jarnatt to write the first draft.[5] Initially, Thomas told De Jarnatt that he wanted to base the film’s story around Hamlet but he ended up being too faithful to the play and was told be more creative with the parallels to it. Moranis and Thomas’ agents sent the script to various Hollywood studios and a few days later they had a deal with MGM based not on the script but on record sales, “the breakout potential, and the fact that it was being advertised on a television show”,
Originally, Moranis and Thomas were not going to direct or write the film but ended up doing both with the guidance of executive producer Jack Grossberg, who had produced films by Mel Brooks and Woody Allen. They were subsequently given a budget of $5 million.[4] Before filming, all of the major breweries wanted the McKenzie brothers to appear in beer advertisements. The filmmakers had the promise of Molson’s Brewery, but once the brewery found out that there was a joke in the film about putting a mouse in a beer bottle so that a complaint can be made in order to get free beer, they distanced themselves from the film. The filmmakers were also banned from filming in a Brewers Retail store, and from using the name “Brewers Retail”. The exterior shots of the store (now a Tim Hortons/Pizza Pizza) were shot in Scarborough, Ontario at the corner of Eglinton Ave and Midland Ave. The KFC and Petro-Canada gas station seen in the background still exist. They ended up building a replica of the store at a cost of more than $45,000, and calling it “The Beer Store”. Ironically, Brewers Retail later changed the name of its stores to “The Beer Store”, and they continue to operate under that name. Filming also took place at the Old Fort Brewing Co. in Prince George, British Columbia.[4] The emergency vehicles used during filming were all real Metropolitan Toronto Police squad cars. The Ambulances used briefly were on loan from Metropolitan Toronto Ambulance
Strange Brew currently holds a 70% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with a 79% rating from users of the site.[6] In her review for The New York Times, Janet Maslin wrote, “Anyone who’s partial to the McKenzies’ humor doubtless has a fondness for beer. The price of a ticket could buy enough beer for an experience at least as memorable as this one”.[7] Gary Arnold, in his review for the Washington Post, wrote, “Neither triumph nor fiasco, Strange Brew leaves plenty of room for improvement, but I hope Thomas and Moranis get the chance to demonstrate that they’ve learned a lot from the mixed assortment of nuttiness in their first movie comedy”.[8] In his review for the Globe and Mail, Jay Scott wrote, “What’s terrific about the McKenzie Brothers is their offhand depiction of two English-Canadian working-class dimwits … and what’s terrific about the movie is its equally offhand surrealism”.

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