Co-stars include Max von Sydow, Paul Dooley, Lynne Griffin and Angus MacInnes.

Two unemployed brothers, Bob and Doug McKenzie (Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas), screen a poorly made film they have produced to a theatre audience.

Smith tests this spiked beer on patients of the neighbouring Royal Canadian Institute for the Mentally Insane, which is connected to the brewery by tunnels.

While exploring the massive complex, they find a shuttered cafeteria containing an old Galactic Border Patrol video game, which supernaturally reveals that Brewmeister Smith murdered John Elsinore and that Pam's bumbling Uncle Claude (Paul Dooley) was involved.

Bob recognizes a brewery employee as former hockey great Jean "Rosie" LaRose (Angus MacInnes), who suffered a career-ending nervous breakdown and has fallen under Smith's control.

The brothers' bizarre antics at their trial cause the judge to declare them insane and put them under Brewmeister Smith's care at the asylum.

The spirit of John Elsinore, possessing the brewery's electrical system, electrocutes Smith when he is shoved against his light-up world map.

In December 1981, Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas released a Bob and Doug McKenzie comedy album, The Great White North, which sold a million copies.

[1] The success of the McKenzie brothers led the SCTV show to center an entire 90-minute episode around the characters, "The Great White North Palace", which aired in April 1982.

Andrew Alexander, executive producer for SCTV, reminded them that he had exclusive contracts with the two men and that if they wrote a script, he would sue them.

The site's critical consensus reads: "Though lowbrow in intent and outcome, Strange Brew effectively mines laughs from its unique premise and likeable stars.

[4] In her review for The New York Times, Janet Maslin wrote: "Anyone who's partial to the McKenzies' humor doubtless has a fondness for beer.

"[5] Gary Arnold, in his review for The Washington Post, wrote: "Neither triumph nor fiasco, Strange Brew leaves plenty of room for improvement, but I hope Thomas and Moranis get the chance to demonstrate that they've learned a lot from the mixed assortment of nuttiness in their first movie comedy.

(Full title: The Adventures of Bob and Doug McKenzie: Strange Brew - Excerpts from the Original Soundtrack).

Most of the album consisted of comedy sketches and film dialogue, while the music sampling was usually accompanied by the characters' commentary.

[15] The plot, according to a Maple Palm (Dave Thomas's production company) release, would feature Bob and Doug, now working as garbage men, being convinced by a fast-talking insurance salesman (Aykroyd) to get into the microbrewing business.