STRANGE BREW

STRANGE BREW. Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas, dir., scripts, stars. Canada: MGM/UA, 1983. **+Mundane satire with some fantasy and SF motifs, featuring The McKenzie Brothers, Doug and Bob, of The Great White North, with a premise from the Hamlet story (most famously rendered by William Shakespeare, ca. 1600). Relevant here for the visual pun of the ghost of the Hamlet-figure's father turning up as the Ghost in the Machine, where a featured machine is an electronic game and other machines include computers and computerized surveillance systems.