I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell (movie)

This is a difficult movie to review objectively because it's largely based around the allegedly true stories which can read on tuckermax.com which despite their vulgarity and offensive nature never fail to be funny.
Overall it's not a terrible movie and sits somewhere between The Hangover (released the same year), American Pie and Animal House. It's particularly hard not to compare it to the Hangover simply because it feels like it was rushed out when the buzz surrounding The Hangover was at its peak and as a result it feels only half finished.
When it's done right the dialogue is delivered perfectly but there are some throw away lines that just don't work outwith the context of the original stories or are just delivered badly and this is most evident when Matt Czuchry who plays Tucker delivers his lines with virtually no emotion behind them apart from one scene near the end which seems strangely out of place with everything else we have learned about the character up to now.  While Jesse Bradford who plays Drew delivers his lines with a perfect blend of cynicism, emotional withdrawal and heart break.

The stories themselves are a fairly mixed bag with two scenes standing out - the jail scene with Geoff Stults as Dan and the hotel recounting of the aftermath of the hotel lobby scene.

The main problem though is that the quality of the writing simply does not measure up to the writing on the website and in the actual book of I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell both of which have more material and are far funnier than the movie and give the stories context where the movie just comes across as a collection of skits with a paper thin story to tie them together.
Altogether it's not much worse than The Hangover but the former was helped a lot by a much stronger cast and going for all out slapstick while IHTSBiH just feels like a frat movie from the 80s without the charm or anarchy.

As an aside, if you're a fan of the Tucker Max website you'll probably get a bit more enjoyment out of this due to some lines and references that will go over the heads of the average viewer such as "Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke." and the Slingblade reference.