‘The Greatest Beer Run Ever’ Film Review: Zac Efron Guzzles Down a Flat Brew

thewrap.com:

could he? And even if he can sign on with a freighter taking cargo to Southeast Asia, what can he do when he gets to Saigon?He embarks on the trip at least partly because nobody he knows thinks he’ll actually do it, and he bumbles his way around Vietnam with a bag full of beer that dispenses so many cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon it starts to feel like a cross between a clown car and Jesus’s loaves and fishes. (Chickie and his pals, Catholics all, would either appreciate or be offended by the Jesus comparison.)The point of the movie, of course, is what Chickie learns in Vietnam — that it’s a quagmire, that the good guys and bad guys aren’t as clear-cut as they might have seemed back at the bar, and that Americans are being lied to about what’s happening by their government.

But to learn his lessons, he’s got to find his way around a good chunk of Vietnam, hitching rides on military helicopters because the top brass figures that he must be CIA, since a civilian can’t really be wandering around in country. (If this wasn’t based on a true story, nobody would ever believe it – and even knowing that the real Chickie actually did this, you have to wonder about a few details.)To their credit, most of Chickie’s army buddies aren’t particularly thrilled when he shows up with that bag o’ brew; the usual reaction is more along the lines of “why the hell are you risking your life to bring me a can of warm beer, you idiot?”Farrelly pulls off some decent action scenes, though Chickie apparently showed up on a day when all of the Viet Cong snipers who could actually hit what they were aiming at were on holiday.

Or maybe one of his pal’s fellow soldiers gets it right when he says, “Every once in a while you run into a guy who’s too dumb to.