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mark-whait 2012-05-25 07:10:26

A Cure For The Hangover

The Hangover is an enjoyable, laugh out loud movie that will go down asone of the better comedies to come out of Hollywood in recent years.There isn't much needed in terms of plot as four friends head to Vegasfor a stag party and subsequently wake up 'the morning after' with onlystrange mementos of the night before to leave them wondering what theydid. The fact that the clues include a real life tiger in theirbathroom and a baby in the cupboard only add to the intrigue. Cue aseries of set pieces and some glittering one liners and it's easy tosee why this film was a big hit on both sides of the Atlantic. Anyonethat has suffered the agony of not knowing what happened the nightbefore, and then the acute embarrassment when you gradually realisejust what you did will identify with this movie. And watch out too fora great turn from Heather Graham and a hilarious appearance by MikeTyson - yes, THE Mike Tyson.

colebt33-780-179547 2012-05-24 23:46:56

A surprisingly enjoyable modern comedy

When Todd Phillips announced the viewing of his newest movie "TheHangover" my first instinct was to reject it immediately, because mytrack record with this director hasn't exactly been the best. Don't getme wrong, Todd has given us some exceptional stuff over the years."Road Trip" was a bit dodgy, but overall a funny movie, Old Schoolwasn't too bad either, it did have it's moments of enjoyment. But Ithink the moment where Phillips really lost my respect was with his2006 film "School for Scoundrels", I can't even begin to describe whata bad movie that was.Anyway, my mind was set. I wasn't going to set myself up fordisappointment again. However my friends would not give up until theygot me to sit down and watch this movie. At one point, I believe theyeven threaten to tie me to a chair and tape my eyelids to my head andmake me watch it. Course I knew they were bluffing, but I wasn't goingto take the risk. So that same weekend I finally I gave in and decidedto buy a ticket for "The Hangover", and with great surprise I came outof the cinema cracking myself with laughter. It's time's like this I'mglad that my friends are dangerously obsessive.The Hangover is a huge come back by Todd Phillips. It's a breath offresh air that outwits most of the modern comedies you see now a days.The title makes it pretty obvious that it's about a group of blokesthat have one hell of a night and as a result suffer from hell of ahangover, with one of its main symptoms being memory loss. After wakingup in a trashed apartment with one guy missing, the three friends maketheir way to the streets of Las Vegas making several stops andgradually putting together the pieces of the puzzle that will hopefullysolve the mystery of what happened at the bachelor party as well asmark the location of the soon to be married groom.A great thing about this movie is that you don't ever know what's goingto happen. These guys just go from place to place with no idea of whatlies ahead, and that in itself leaves for a very funny effect.Phillip's is also very careful to make sure that he doesn't expose toomuch information about what happened that night, the supporting castonly gives a limited bit of info to three main characters, so that way,it doesn't ruin the ending for the audience, as well as maintain thehilarious effect of not being able to determine what kind of unexpectedoccurrence will take place.Apart from it being genuinely funny, The Hangover also succeeds indelivering an equal balance of character and crudity. Although theyappear somewhat stereotypical, Stu, Phil and Alan are all consistentlyamusing figures. The chemistry between them is convincing, effectivelyfunny, and very well portrayed by Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, and ZachGalifianakis.With a clever script, efficient direction, and hilarious auto-playbetween characters, "The Hangover" makes for an overall considerablyfunny movie about the modern concept of road trip to Las Vegas.

2012-05-20 04:54:31

Funny, then offensive as hell, then funny - should be rated NC-17

If you are in the right mood and frame of mind for mindless fart joke-type humor then you will probably laugh hysterically for most of this movie. Most people did. There are a few scenes that a large number of people agreed were shocking, disturbing and EXTREMELY offensive so I'll warn you about them: There is a scene involving a baby and masturbation that will make many parents very angry. There is a scene involving a man being sexually tortured by a little girl with a Taser while a cop (the filmmaker himself) stands by telling her she did a good job because she shot him "right in the balls" with the Taser which fries his testicles with 50,000 volts. Anyone who knows anything about the Taser and how the police and others are actually using it will find this 'gag' way too realistic and cruel to be funny. This sexual torture by Taser is really happening in the United States, minus the little girl, and it isn't a joke. But it is making a lot of lawyers rich while sending a lot of non-violent, unarmed men to the hospital with severe damage to their genitals for very little reason (Google "Tavares Browning Taser" for a real life example. If you just want to see a video example of how the Taser shoots the testicles even when the police aren't trying to then Google "Taser balls Rescue Humor" and click the very first link "Police take a taser to balls")You can also find the Taser torture scene on YouTube. If this scene doesn't bother you then you're pretty cold blooded, but the rest of the film will probably be fine with you. Immediately after the girl sexually tortures one of the three friends' with the Taser, leaving him crying on the floor in castrated agony, a boy takes the Taser and shoots another of the three friends in the face with it. When the Taser victim doesn't fall down, the cop shocks him in the neck with a regular stun gun while making a casual remark, dropping him to the floor in a helpless heap of pain. Some people objected to this abuse, too, but since the police aren't actually shooting people in the face with Tasers it didn't receive as much criticism. Generally Taser shots to the face result in a lost eye, just as Taser shots to the genitals often result in destroyed genitals and severe emotional trauma.If you can get past the baby masturbation scene and the Taser sexual torture scene then for the most part you can laugh your ass off at the rest of the movie. And if you are totally twisted then you may just laugh through those scenes, too. This is not the Three Stooges. This is extremely harsh and cruel comedy. If you choose to watch it, brace yourself or drink heavily first or whatever it takes to loosen your mood, and don't let the kids see it. This should've been NC-17. The fact that it isn't is just further evidence of how useless and political the ratings review board is.

planktonrules 2012-05-19 21:27:09

I guess I am missing something with this film....

I felt so out of touch with everyone when I got around to seeing thisfilm. After all, it has a very respectable score on IMDb and a lot offolks seemed to like it--yet I found it about as enjoyable as dentalsurgery. Part of the problem might be that I only watched it because Iwas bored and on a cruise ship with a very limited selection of DVDs.Part of it might be because the day before (also out of boredom) Iwatched "Hot Tub Time Machine"--and it was practically the same film."The Hangover" is a story about four completely unlikable guys who seemmore like caricatures than anyone you'd ever meet. In addition, theywere so unlike each other you wonder if such friendships ever existanywhere but in a Hollywood film. One is the guy who is about to getmarried--and wants to screw some hookers before he ties the knot (howheart-warming). One is a handsome school teacher who is just nasty and100% unlikable. One is a screw-up and idiot--so they naturally make himthe fat guy. And, the other is the man in a relationship with acastrating female. If these sound familiar, they were pretty much thesame characters you'd see in "Hot Tub Time Machine"--but even moreone-dimensional and this is especially true for the last two charactersI mentioned. They go to Vegas, accidentally ingest some of the daterape drug and do lots of insane things--little of which is particularlyfunny. And this is the problem with the film. If you laugh at verylow-brow humor, don't mind that the plot makes no sense (such as thetasering scene) and think that a dirty word is THE punchline for mostjokes, then you'll enjoy the film. As for me, I can enjoy a dopey film(such as "Talladega Nights" or "Strange Brew")--but there is a limit todopiness. Plus, it's hard to stick with a movie when you simply don'tcare what happens to any of them. Overall, over-rated unlike any recentmovie I have seen. Unpleasant, unfunny and for the undemanding.

Tweekums 2012-05-15 09:07:05

A fairly funny film

When I sat down to watch this I wasn't sure what to expect; of the maincast the only actor whose name I recognised was Bradley Cooper and thatwas because I'd seen him in the TV show 'Alias' which is hardly acomedy. The idea of a group of men going out for a stag night in LasVegas led me to expect a fairly puerile story about what they got up tothere; and while the actual film was fairly silly it was also prettyfunny and I enjoyed it a lot more than I expected.Most of the story is told in flashback after one of the grouptelephones the bride to be to let her know that they have lost thegroom; the rest of the film follows their adventures as they look forclues as to what happened on that fateful night. This adventure willinclude a tiger in their bathroom, a missing tooth, one of themmarrying a stripper, stealing police car, finding a naked Chinese manin their car's boot and a meeting with Mike Tyson. If that soundsfairly madcap it is because it is rather! Several scenes caused me tochuckle and some were laugh out loud funny; the scene where they werechildren got to shoot the group with stun guns was hysterically funny!The acting was decent, Bradley Cooper shows that he can do comedy aswell as drama, Zach Galifianakis was funny as the less than intelligentAlan and Ed Helms was good as the hen-pecked dentist Stu. While some ofthe jokes missed the mark it was funny enough to be worth watching solong as you don't mind the adult tone of some of the jokes and a fairamount of swearing.

2012-05-15 02:45:25

THE TRUTH ABOUT DIGITAL COPIES

This review is from: The Hangover (Unrated Edition) [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray) I love The Hangover. It's my favorite comedy of 2009, so I'm not going to give it anything less than 5 stars, but I just wanted to leave some words of warning to anyone who is interested in the "added value" of a digital copy. Beware that new Hangover blu-rays no longer come with a Digital Copy. I ordered my copy in January 2010 and when it showed up at my door, I discovered that it no longer contained a Digital Copy disc like I've seen in stores and even on Amazon when I initially ordered it. I think studios are gutting digital copies out of blu-rays shortly after they get a bill for all the iTunes downloads they aren't getting paid for.I thought it was ridiculous when I read that every digital copy code has an expiration date less than a year after it's released. Sure enough I start looking at the fine print on all my blus with digital copies and they all have these expiration dates on them! So if you don't buy the blu-ray right when it comes out and use your code right away, the digital copy is worthless. I discovered this when I bought the Matrix box set a year after it had been out and couldn't access the digital copy because it was expired. Now it seems the new trend is to just take the digital copy out of the box just a few months after release, especially if it sells well, and hope no one notices. The "added value" of the digital copy is a sham.

2012-05-04 22:17:37

Funniest Movie of the Year

My friend wanted to see this movie, not me, but I reluctantly agreed. To my surprise, it was one of the funniest movies I've seen in a long time. It's funny from beginning to end. I can't remember a time when I laughed so hard. It is definitely worth the money. When it comes out on DVD, I will definitely be adding it to my movie collection.

2012-05-04 13:52:49

FUNNY! FUNNY! FUNNY!

I went in to purchase the unrated version of this film. I thought I was going to be disappointed. I couldn't have been more wrong. I have to say that this movie is the funniest Movies. I laughed and laughed. I thought it was soooooooooo funny. I haven't saw the Unrated but I can say that if its anything like this it is a hysterical roller coaster ride of side splitting laughter.

2012-05-02 14:58:10

You Will Be Disappointed

This review is from: The Hangover (Rated Single-Disc Edition) (DVD) The Marketing people did a great job on the hype for this stinker.All the funny parts of the movie you have already seen in the ads for the movie.This was supposed to be a comedy, but it was certainly not very funny. Hard to watch, wanted to turn it off but figured I had already paid for it, might as well suffer through it.Please do not bother purchasing this film. It will be on television very soon.Watch it some night when you want to fall asleep.

justbarelybreathing370 2012-05-02 02:07:04

The WORST movie I have ever seen!

The Hangover is the MOST OVERRATED MOVIE I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY ENTIRELIFE. All it is an over-hyped over-acted unoriginal piece of garbage.It is a total rip off of Dude where's my car. As a movie critic, TheHangover was very insulting that the writers think the audience isactually that stupid. But judging from most of other reviews of thehangover 1&2,they are that stupid.This shouldn't have even been released as anything more than a TVmovie, and even that should not have done this good. The mostsuccessful R rated comedy ever made? People need to stop watchingmovies drunk if they are going to review them, because that movie spatin the face of Comedies,their audiences and movies in general. Themovie is about a guy about to get married who goes to Vegas with hisfriends and "disappears". Then they all wake up hungover and don'tremember what happened the night before(What is this like the 50thmovie about hungover idiots who don't remember what happened the nightbefore in the last couple years?)The "Funny" parts of the movie are soforced and most of it is just supposed to be "shocking" It's like thewriter of this movie just was drunk one night watching movies with hisdrunk friends and one of them said "hey man, you're funny.You shouldwrite a Comedy" because that is literally what I was thinking while Iwas watching it. A bunch of drunk idiots working on a movie with noreal movie experience at all.Apes could do a better job.If their was any number lower than 1/10 to rate I would have rated itthat,but unfortunately there isn't so I have to rate it 1/10.

2012-04-29 12:02:52

Hangover

This review is from: The Hangover - UNRATED (2009) (DVD) I enjoyed the movie and now have the DVD with specail editions more stuff in it,,,not sure why they cut some of the stuff it really made the movie,,,glad I got the DVD

jotix100 2012-04-29 03:14:40

There's a tiger in the bathroom!

As far as wedding movies go, "The Hangover" is a tad different fromothers in the genre. We are not asked to follow the antics of thesegrown up men getting in all kinds of mischief, while trying tocelebrate the ritual of a bachelor party in Las Vegas. As a matter offact, the film spare us of all that, as the creators take us to watchthe effects of the night in question as three of the four friends haveto face the consequences of their night on the town. The American maleshows signs of wanting to remain children for as long as they can. Phil, Stu, and Alan wanted to give their pal Doug a night he would notforget. Bringing him to Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas was a sort ofadventure for these foursome. When Doug, the groom to be, disappearsafter a night on the town, the remaining trio decide to retrace theirsteps to find him. Obviously, they have no clue as to where to begin.Alan discovers there is a tiger in the bathroom, as well as a babyhidden in an unexpected place. Stu finds, to his horror, he is missinga front tooth.As the friends try to put together the pieces about the disappearanceof Doug, they get into more trouble, when a gang of thugs led by a gayChinese man, begin to pressure them for eighty thousand dollars heclaims Alan stole from him. Stu learns he got married at one of thoseubiquitous chapels that dot Las Vegas. What's more, he has married ahooker, the mother of the child found in their suite. As for the tiger,it belongs to no other than Mike Tyson, a tough guy to deal with. Theirerratic ways bring him to despair, but no Doug.Todd Phillips directed this entertaining comedy with sure hand. Thescreenplay by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, is not the by-the-number kind,although fans of the genre will find similarities with other moviesabout weddings that are disastrous. For starters, the creators havekept from the audience everything related to what really happened onthe night of the bachelor party. We only see shots of what they reallydid in snapshots as the credits roll.Zach Galifianakis is turning into an impressive presence wherever heappears. We admired his work in the series "Bored to Death". He proveshe is a funny man that does not mind 'baring' it all for a laugh.Bradley Cooper is the leader of the friends, but actually he is thestraight man. Ed Helms, on the other hand, goes from the nerd type heis supposed to be into a new man, changed when he married the hooker.Rachael Harris, who plays Melissa, Stu's terrorizing lover, is anactress that has been around in small roles and really deserves to playmore often. She excels as the henpecking Melissa, the woman thattwo-times Stu with the bartender of a cruise ship and who makes hislife impossible. Jeffrey Tambor has only a small part.

asamoahsamuel 2012-04-27 00:21:48

Unoriginal, unfunny and an overrated comedy.

Rubbish! Seriously...a rubbish comedy. This has been done so many timesbefore. So let me tell you,I saw nothing original in the Hangover. It'sthe same American Pie Farrelly Brothers Jackass comedy, Americans havebeen churning out for the past 10 years. A few laughs here and therebut that's all. The Hangover is one of those films that has beenunneccessaryly hyped. And the truth is ...there's nothing special aboutit! Four grown men frolicking in the Las Vegas desert has been to deathand that was more or less the premise of the film. I even think I fella sleet a couple of times because some parts were so boring. ExpectAmerican directors and producers to churn out more of this trash inyears to come. Unoriginal, unfunny and an overrated comedy. Worst filmof the year by far and this will probably my easiest review of theyear.

cheesygrinn 2012-04-26 18:59:42

So, so...could have been great

Dude, show us the MONEY (shots). Lots of Talk about the crazy eventsand little show but a series of pictures during credits at end. I washyped to see this movie. Not bad, but what it could have been. ShameShame. Lost op on this one. Could have been a Classic. Would havereally enjoyed seeing how they stole the cop car, didn't have to be anelaborate chase scene with 10 cars following close behind like a TonyScott or Michael Mann picture, just something for us to latch ontothat's all. Also would have enjoyed seeing why and how they were socrazy at the wedding chapel. What went down so unusual that theproprietor is totally beside himself of the night's (before) events.What did the guy with no tooth do that made the guy consider him thecraziest m—f—he had ever met. A 10 to 20 second outrageous clip wouldhave sufficed, but no, we were denied that also. And why not show us aflashback of how they were kids and how they did that sleeping bagtrick on their friend. Why not spend a half a day and get a couple ofkid actors and do that for us. Why all the talk about last night andnot show us?

paulnm96 2012-04-23 05:18:45

Vegas Baby

This comedy is a hilarious movie about three dopes who lose their bestfriend and groomsman Doug (Justin Bartha) at his bachelor party in LasVegas.The men head to Vegas for Doug their best friend's bachelor party. Phil(Bradley Cooper) married and constantly complaining about it who alsois a teacher, Alan (Zach Galifiankis) Doug's fiancé Tracey's (SashaBarrese) brother and a bit crazy in the head and Stu (Ed Helms) adoctor (dentist) who is trapped in a no freedom relationship.The men go on the roof of Caesers Palace in Vegas and discuss the nightthey will have with toasts. Someone slips the men rohypnol or roofiesand the men forget the whole night they wake up in shock and awe of atrashed villa, a tiger in the toilet, a baby in the closet and Stu ismissing a tooth. However the main shock is there is no sign of groomDoug.The men go around trying to retrace their steps and find Doug, get ridof the tiger and baby and explain how the hell Stu lost his tooth andends up in Alan's pocket. But one of the three got married (thatexplains the baby) but will Phil, Stu & Alan find Doug in time for thewedding and will everyone know what they did.This movie provides continuous amounts of comedy from all the three menand a movie to watch with friends or the family it is a great storylineto watch over and over again with special appearance of legend MikeTyson. Will what happened in Vegas stay in Vegas?

kosmasp 2012-04-22 13:58:02

Very Bad Things

When a movie is funny, even though you have seen some of it's funniestmoments in the trailer, you know you have a winner. Hangover, whichdoes have some similarities to the movie "Very Bad Things", but doesnot sport the same dark humor, is a comedy that works for many reasonsand was therefor successful.The actors: Be it Bradley Cooper, who deservedly gets the main (active)role here, was a hoot when he was on Alias (JJ Abrams TV Show). Here hecan display his comedic potential more than in "He's not that intoyou". Zach Galifianakis is a bit odd and might scare a few people off,but he is a perfect fit (no pun intended). Ken Jeong, whom I've seen inseveral comedies in the last few months and many other comedians (and acameo here and there) really make a wonderful ensemble (if you canavoid it, don't watch the trailer, before you see the movie, one cameoin particular is just so much better, if you don't know what's gonnahit you ... again no pun intended).The story is pretty simple and you have to stretch your disbelief abit, but it's all for the sake of really good comedy. And the ending isjust perfect too. Everything fits and even though I don't know whatthey really would do in a sequel (there are rumors), I'd love to seeone! :o)

Tdi7457 2012-04-20 11:53:09

A Hysterical Romp!!

Two days before his wedding, Doug (Justin Bartha) drives to Las Vegaswith his best buddies Phil and Stu (Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms) and hisfuture brother-in-law Alan (Zach Galifianakis), for a blow-out bachelorparty they vow they'll never forget.But when the three groomsmen wake up the next morning with poundingheadaches, they can't remember a thing. Their luxury hotel suite isbeyond trashed and the groom is nowhere to be found.With no clue about what happened and little time to spare, the triomust attempt to retrace their bad decisions from the night before inorder to figure out where things went wrong in the hopes of findingDoug and getting him back to L.A. in time for his wedding.But the more they begin to uncover, the more they realize just how muchtrouble they're really in. The Hangover 10/10

michael_the_nermal 2012-04-19 18:25:21

Super Gross, but Decent Comedy

This movie makes "Freddy got Fingered" look like a Sunday schoolrecital. This flick is sick to the nines. I was surprised they let thismovie slide with just an R rating; there were times I thought an NC-17would have been more suitable. DO NOT watch this with anybody under 18!I really mean that for this particular movie.As far as the content goes, I thought the filmmakers wereextraordinarily creative, making the "hangover" the main plot andhaving the audience piece together the "wild night" through thedialogue presented throughout the movie. This is a "PulpFiction"-esquire approach I very much appreciated as unique and stylishfor a raunchy comedy. The actors are decent, but the standout was the"fat Jesus" Alan, who does his damndest to be a bizarre, naivesimpleton/man-child. He seemed to have taken his cues from ChrisElliot's "Chris Peterson" on "Get A Life", Reverend Jim Ignatowsky from"Taxi", and a little bit of Kelly Bundy. I'm all for innocent, mondobizarro men-children in comedy movies, though Alan seemed a little bitmean-spirited compared to Chris Peterson. He looked an awful lot likeTorgo from "Manos: The Hands of Fate", and seemed just as perverted!He's the highlight of the film, though he's not quite as good as ChrisElliot or Pee-Wee Herman playing the weird man-child character.Honestly, the best stuff was in the previews; the Mike Tyson cameo wasa bit of a letdown. Heather Graham plays a standard-issue "whore with aheart of gold" that we've seen a bazillion times. The Asian gangsterwas just weird. I thought the kids tazing our intrepid heroes was notthat funny. Overall, a decent comedy with a notable man-childcharacter, but it's a far cry from "Cabin Boy." Wait for the DVD tocome out, and just rent it for a few days. Don't bother buying thissucker.

2012-04-15 11:56:37

Ignore the Pessimist

This movie is truly a humorous film. After watching it I decided I wanted to purchase it and I got tied up reading what the "bad" or "1 star", reviews were. There were two types of negative reviews. The first were upset that it wasn't funny. Those must be the people that own the box set of Extreme Home Makeover. The others were up in arms because of the mocked infant masturbation scene. Quite frankly it was crude, but if you seriously don't know that a move title "The Hangover" is going to involve crude humor than I think serious analysis of someone intelligence is in store. Overall, the movie was excellently funny and a great exaggeration of plausible events that tie together to make for some hysterical moments. Just realize before hand that the film isn't a British comedy before viewing it.

Mill Coleman 2012-04-14 19:41:13

The Funniest Movie That I've Seen In Years!!!

I absolutely loved this movie! Strange as it may be, out of all themovies I've seen this year at the cinema, this is now my highest ratedfilm. (And I like to see at least one movie per week) Without a doubt, this is the funniest movie that I've seen in years. Itstarts with a constant chuckle as they establish each character andthen kicks it in to high gear. Perfectly structured and purelyhilarious, this film throws one outrageous situation after the otherand you actually feel like you're the fourth (or fifth) member of thisroad trip. The photos over the closing credits had the audience I sawit with literally laughing all the way in to the parking lot leavingthe film. This is as funny and as fun as it gets.