| | | No Gut, No Glory.
Features: DVD, Widescreen
Beer, broads and softball combine with hilarious results in Artie Lange's Beer League, an over-the-top comedy about a group of misfits whose weekly softball games descend more into fights for macho dominance than making home runs. When love (Cara Buono) enters Artie's life, it unexpectedly alters his low self-esteem; and the odds for winning - not only the league trophy, but a new life - are considerably amped along with the comedy and chaos!
"It's a terrific movie! We laughed our asses off!" Howard Stern
"A welcome return to the raunchy hey-day of comedy, a true guy's film." Mark Bell, Film Threat
"A raunchy, raucous frat party!" Tony Macklin, Las Vegas Weekly
Editor's Note
Artie DeVanzo (Artie Lange) is a loveable loser whose New Jersey softball team is about to be expelled from the league. One too many on-field fights has alerted the authorities to DeVanzo and his boozy ways, and the team must put a winning streak together to salvage their status. Meanwhile, DeVanzo's off-field life starts to improve after he meets and falls in love with a local girl, who is attracted to him despite the fact that he still lives with his parents and is a hopeless alcoholic. The film builds to an amusing climax as the members of the softball team get their act together and start to rise through the ranks.
| Features | Artie Behind The Scenes Of Jimmy Kimmel Live! & The Best Damn Sports Show | | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Featurettes: Beer Goggles, Beer League - Behind The Scenes, Live From CineVegas!, & In The Studio With Artie - Jokes & Ringtones | | Interactive Menus | | Photo Gallery | | Raw Interviews | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: Spanish | | Unrated Audio Commentary With Artie Lange & Frank Sebastiano | | Unrated Trailer |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | Beer League - DVD By: Christopher Null - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 1/11/2007 1:17 AM | |
If you're unfamiliar with Artie Lange, he's part of Howard Stern's gang of cronies, the guys who write his jokes and make wisecracks from the peanut gallery. That qualifies you to write, produce, and star in a movie that is, let's face it, basically about yourself: a self-proclaimed fat, "funny" guy named Artie who lives at home, has no job, and plays softball mostly while drunk....read the full review |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Platinum Disc Corporation |
| Release Date: 10/23/2007 |
| Running Time: 87 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2006 | | Catalog ID: 09445 | | UPC: 00096009445096 | | Number of Discs: 2 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Available Subtitles: Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
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| | Professional Reviews | eFilmCritic.com 8 of 10
In a review for the film "Dirty Work", Artie Lange was once described as having "all the charm of a date rapist." Norm Macdonald told him that was actually a compliment since a date rapist has to have far more charm than an actual rapist. They actually need to get a date first. That's an amusing anecdote which Lange told before the world premiere of his first headliner, "Beer League", advertised with the tag of "Artie Lange's" no doubt to draw upon the name recognition he's established over the past few years as one of Howard Stern's in-studio cohorts...With a little more ingenuity, "Beer League" could have aspired to be more than just a more profane version of "The Bad News Bears" (to a tee right up to its climactic finale.) - Erik Childress
Variety 7 of 10
A movie with its goombah credentials fully intact, "Artie Lange's Beer League" puts auds in the bleachers cheering for tubby New Jersey losers in an adult softball league where anything goes. Sloppy but unconcerned about it, pic offers a trip back in time to a pre-PC and feminist era when men were sexist Neanderthals, women supported them from the sidelines and the guy with the biggest mouth scored...Lange looks relaxed in pic designed for the lower-than-lowbrow, as does supporting cast from Ralph Maccio as a soon-to-be married buddy to a hilariously profane Seymour Cassel as the team's elder statesman...Production package is suitably ugly, given the neighborhood. Although pic is going out under title including Lange's name, burned title on screen is "Beer League." - Robert Koehler
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