highthreadcountmedia Review of Last Cup: Road to the World Series of Beer Pong

Last Cup: Road to the World Series of Beer Pong (2008)

Hard To Find, But Worth The Watch

[10/10 · 26 December 2023]

This undercelebrated documentary is worth the less than 90 minutes of time if you want to learn about a drinking subculture, a quasi-sport and/or like watching people playing beer pong. It starts with an introduction from Morgan Spurlock and continues to introduce a handful of beer pong players and competitors who are the characters. They are varying degrees of entertaining, all pretty good at beer pong, and seem to have an interesting self-awareness about how weird their commitment to beer pong is that makes the film charming. You get a front row seat to what is a nationwide beer pong circuit that culminates with a world series event in Nevada that the characters are all competing in. Not too long, not too short, and you end the film knowing more about beer pong and the competitive beer pong circuit than you did before the film. I am a bit curious where these beer pong players are, in life, today?

Worth noting that the director and editor went on to win an oscar for their next documentary --- so may help explain why it was so good.