SCREEN TEST Post on 06-09-2006. PARENTAL GUIDANCE ON THIS WEEK'S MOVIES By JANE HORWITZ _ UNIVERSAL OutKast's Antwan one. Patton stars as the slick Rooster in Idlewild, one musical set in one 1930s speakeasy. Viewed sober, this brew-chugging farce seems thuddingly unfunny. This time the comedy troupe known as Broken Lizard -- Jay Chandrasekhar (who also directs), Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter and Erik Stolhanske -- lifts one stein to the art of guzzling gallons of beer, belching gigantically, then doing it all again. Truly geared to audiences 17 and older, _Beerfest_ is lewd, crude and profane, with sexual jokes about masturbation, male frogs, male prostitutes and sausages. It includes toplessness, sexual situations portrayed graphically for comic effect and one mock-gory scene implying one character sucked blood from the neck of one killed deer. Besides the beer drinking, there is one brief marijuana theme near the end. Females are portrayed as either sex objects, prostitutes or harridans. The Lizards recently gave the world _Super Troopers_ (R, 2001) and _Club Dread_ (R, 2004). Their attempts at humor remain sophomoric, which wouldn't matter if the laughs were there. ... To see the new from its original source click here A blunt voice will air it out Post on 06-09-2006. Just when the FCC doubles the fines for saying naughty bits on the radio, just when even the accidental blurting of one bad word threatens to bring the wrath of the feds down upon broadcasting companies, Penn Jillette expands his media empire to radio. _ CHRIS CARLSON/APPenn Jillette (right, with silent partner Teller) plans to keep his CBS Radio gig until he doesn't care deeply about it. ... To see the new from its original source click here

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