Laugh at Canucks

Released in 1983, Strange Brew presaged Chuck Norris jokes, dumb-and-dumber buddy comedies and Air Bud-style flying dogs. The only feature film to emerge from the seminal Canadian sketch comedy show SCTV, Strange Brew compares favorably with most Saturday Night Live character vehicles. Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas play brothers Bob and Doug McKenzie, broadly stereotypical Canadian hosers who punctuate almost every sentence with an inquisitive eh? The McKenzies parlay a fraudulent "We found a dead mouse in our beer, eh?" claim into a job as pest inspectors on a brewery assembly line, which they use to chug free product. Unwittingly — which is to say, the only way the McKenzies do anything — they stumble upon a madman's surreal world-domination scheme. Strange Brew screens for free at 6 p.m. at the Kansas City, Kansas, Public Library (625 Minnesota, 913-551-3280).
Tue., Aug. 5, 6 p.m., 2008