Review: Zac Efron keeps ‘The Greatest Beer Run Ever’ from crumbling beneath the weight of its clashing tones.
hoped to see racism solved with a road trip. The movie went on to win several Oscars, including best picture, despite a storm of controversy and negative sentiment enshrouding it. For his follow-up film,, Farrelly heads back into the political sphere, but with a more universally acceptable premise: war is bad.
That is, essentially, the lesson learned by the hero of the film, Chickie Donohue , a real-life mook from Inwood in northern Manhattan, who, in 1968, traveled to Vietnam on a merchant marine ship to bring his enlisted buddies some beer. In the film, Donohue and his local cohort are staunchly pro-America, and will not brook any criticism of the war effort nor the politicians who, we now know , lied their way into a bloody, murderous catastrophe.
Hence his rash journey to the front lines, where an amiable what-could-go-wrong attitude gradually hardens into a realization that nothing about this campaign is noble. We’ve seen this framing before, but usually it’s a gung-ho soldier who has the harshest of awakenings about what he once thought would be a righteous adventure. It’s a bit different when viewed through the perspective of this goofy, if surprisingly resourceful, civilian.
At the end of their ordeal, safe haven found in the wreckage of an American military base, Chickie assumes that Arthur will want to return to America with him. But Arthur firmly reminds Chickie that he is in Vietnam for a purpose, and that a dire matter such as this can’t just be fled and forgotten. Chickie has no such mission—all the beer has been delivered—and so he goes home, weary and prickly with new understanding.
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