Watching "Beerfest" is like being the designated driver at the most raucous party you can imagine.

		'Beerfest' Rating: R for pervasive crude and sexual content, language, nudity and substance abuse. Starring: Erik Stolhanske, Paul Soter. Director: Jay Chandra-sekhar. Web site: beerfestmovie.warnerbros.com/

Everyone seems to be having a wild, wacky time, and there you sit, stone cold sober. It's as if you wandered in from Brigham Young University and they've just stumbled off the bus from the University of Texas (No. 1 on the Princeton Review party patrol list).

"Beerfest," from the Broken Lizard comedy troupe that made "Super Troopers," is a naked grab for young male moviegoers, with games of quarters, beer pong and chugging and periodic shots of bare-breasted women. "The Devil Wears Prada" it's not.

The comedy opens with brothers Todd and Jan Wolfhouse (Erik Stolhanske and Paul Soter) being dispatched to Germany by their great-grandmother (Cloris Leachman) to scatter their grandfather's ashes. Once there, they stumble into Beerfest, a secret beer-drinking competition that draws contestants from around the world, much like the Olympics.

The brothers not only find their beer-drinking powers put to shame but discover a family dispute besmirching the reputations of their grandfather and great-grandmother. Back home, they decide to put together a team and return to Beerfest so they can compete and restore the family's good name.

They recruit a barrel-chested guy nicknamed Landfill (Kevin Heffernan), a brainiac (Steve Lemme) and a low-rent hustler (Jay Chandrasekhar) and set about training. "Beerfest" takes the conventions of competition -- assembling the team, dealing with old wounds, surmounting a seemingly fatal blow and forging ahead -- and puts a silly, beer-soaked twist on them.

The supporting cast includes Jurgen Prochnow from "Das Boot," Mo'Nique, and Will Forte from "Saturday Night Live."

The actors, an admittedly amiable bunch, seem game for anything, and the movie has a couple of clever moments -- a jerry-rigged bicycle, a last-minute substitution that seems straight out of a soap opera -- but it panders with jokes about prostitutes, sausages, ram urine and a ping-pong paddle used in an unsanctioned way.

Before it even starts its orgy of boozing and burping it flashes a warning that if you attempt to drink as much as the characters, "You will die." The comedy, directed by Chandrasekhar and written by the five stars who comprise the Broken Lizard troupe, runs for nearly two hours.

At 90 minutes, I was ready for "Last call."