Sunday, April 24, 2016

Beer for My Horses (2008)

How bad is it? It's probably the worst film of 2008.
Should you see it? Only if you know all the lyrics to every Toby Keith song and you haven't already.

This is one of those (thankfully) rare films based on a popular song; it's also a road movie in the vein of "Smokey and the Bandit." A cop seeks his girlfriend, who's been kidnapped by the bad guy (always called "The Mexican") whose own girlfriend the cop put behind bars. He has two others join him on his journey that has "amusing" incidents. The film has Toby Keith, Ted Nugent, Tom Skerritt, Barry Corbin, Willie Nelson, Gina Gershon, Mel Tillis and Mac Davis. It also has stereotypes, a farting dog, a pig hunt, a circus, a restroom sing-along, a man on fire and a lot of product placements. The plot, such as it is, doesn't even start until midway through a series of pointless scenes. Never having heard the song from which the film gets its title, I listened to it and found it has no connection to the film - so it doesn't even have that.


  1. Gina Gershon would seem slightly out of place in that cast list.

    1. She is. Her appearance is minimal in length.