The Hangover Part 2

I have to be honest, I wasn't really planning on making this blog today but one of my friends wanted  to go see it so we went and saw it today.

A dark theater, a crowded theater, and Bradley Cooper getting a call saying that they really messed up (I'm trying not to curse in these blogs because vulgar language gets annoying to read pretty fast). This is what my friend and I walked into after we got our tickets for the movie. Wait! The movie is supposed to start 10 minutes from now! I guess we really messed up, or it could just be that the movie theater we walked into was the wrong one... yep it was.

So now walking into the correct movie theater I looked around, Wow it was still pretty crowded, we had to sit in the front part of the theater, which could've end up badly (giving me the usual sore neck), but luckily we were able to sit at the top row of the front part of the theater. So enough of this boring story of the movie theater.

Oh wait before I leave you with my "review", I have to say this. MOUNTAIN DEW PITCH BLACK IS BACK!!!!!!!

Let's start the "review".

Here's what the movie's about for anyone who doesn't know. Stu (played by Ed Helms) is gettin married in Thailand and he invites his friends Phil (played by Bradley Cooper), and Doug ( played by Justin Bartha). He also ends up inviting Alan (played by Zach Galifianakis) too. They end up getting messed up and not remembering the night. They are miles away from where the wedding is and they lost one of the people they were hanging out with, the (soon to be) brother-in-law Teddy (played by Mason Lee). So they have to find Teddy and get back to the wedding before it starts.

The movie starts off almost exactly like the original with people setting up the wedding and the soon to be wife trying to call her soon to be husband (this time it's Stu) on the day of the wedding. I liked this because it's an homage to the original and I do like these openings because it catches your attention and gets you into the movie fast.

After this scene it goes back to a week ago showing what everyone is doing before the wedding and showing why they invited Alan.

I didn't have high hopes for Zach Galifianakis's character Alan because I found that character rather annoying in the first Hangover movie, but I was pleasently surprised at Alan in the movie because he really wasn't as annoying.

Anyway I digress, after this they meet the soon to be brother-in-law named Teddy which seems like a good enough guy, but of course Alan has to annoying  and be hateful to Teddy. This ended up in me wishing to not see Teddy again in this movie. But this was probably the only time I found Alan to be really annoying and one of the next scenes he kind of redeamed himself.

There is a pretty funny part at the dinner table where the father-in-law talks about Stu, and ends up dissing Stu in front of everyone at the rehersal dinner ( He says something like "you're just like my brother, the one that's mentally retarded" and says that Stu is also like some type of goopy rice). Then Alan ges up to say something and what does he say? He starts spewing facts about Thailand. He does end up talking about Stu though, saying that "it's not the first time he's been married, that was a whore..." Which was pretty funny since it's in front of everyone.

After this all the guys go down to the beach and have a few drinks and marshmellows. Uh oh, they wake up in some rundown hotel in Bangkok. All four of them are there; Alan, Stu, Phil... wait where's Doug and Teddy? Well Doug is actually back at where the wedding is taking place because he went to bed early and Teddy? Well he's lost. They do find a monkey though, which turns out to be the middle man for a drug dealer. And they do end up finding out what has happened. I won't go into details of their adventure but what I can say is that during the credits they do show the pictures of what happened to them on their drug adventure (another homage to the first Hangover movie). Also the thing Thailand is known for, according to my sociology professor, does show up here. Yes I'm talking about those weird lady boys, which ended up being one of the worst parts of the movie because the movie did show their penis.

Yep, that is probably the worst part of this movie. I don't know about you, but I really don't want to see some guys penis, especially on the big screen. At least it did kind of add to the comedy and it kind of made sense why they did that.

Now even though I do like this film and I reccomend it  I do see a big downfall (besides the nudity), it's that this film relies too much on the previous film to be good for everyone, if you do see this film make sure you've seen the first one first because you'll get a lot more out of this movie if you did. Of course going by the barebones model this movie follows the same story as the first one but does that make the movie worse? No, of course not. Chances are if you're watching this movie you know that it'll be based on the same thing. A group of friends wake up not knowing what happened, loosing a member of their "fun group" and they have to find him and get back to the wedding.

Hopefully you enjoyed my "review" of the movie, I honestly don't really know how to talk about acting since I either see it as really bad or decent.

Here's my final score: 7.9 / 10
It's funny and I love the homages to the original (even though it could be seen as being lazy) but it does have some parts that I wish I didn't see and it kind of uses it as shock value (at least the part with Mr. Chow). I still managed to find it better than the original (maybe because it was in a better setting for this type of movie)

Oh and of course some critics don't like it, especially the critic I loath the most; Roger Ebert (seriously who gives Kick-ass a 1 star because the girl curses and kills people? He's also the moron who said that video games will never be art and guess what, they are now considered art by congress).

Reminder  for Blog  #2:  Not all nudity is good nudity.