The Hangover Part 2 (2011)

Stayed up a little later on Wednesday night to be able to watch this.  I just watched the first one a few days ago as any who follows this blog daily would know.  My expectations are a little high but I haven't really heard much about whether it was good or not, so in a way I'm going in blind.

A few years after Las Vegas, Stu is back in love and headed to Thailand for the wedding.  The crew, accompanied by Stu's fiancee's brother, Teddy, go down to the beach for a beer and some marshmallows.  When they awake the next morning its the same ol' thing and Teddy is missing.  Now they are in Bangkok in search of Teddy, trying to deduce what happened the night before.

31/50 Eggs

What made The Hangover fun and entertaining unfortunately leads to predictability in The Hangover II.  The format for the film down to the delivery of the jokes, and the jokes themselves was very much symmetrical with the first film, which I'm assuming was done on purpose, but was an incredibly dumb idea.  The humor wasn't up to par with the first film either.  To much relied on shock humor, rather than the crude witty humor that Galifianakis was so good at in the first film.  I did enjoy the Bangkok setting as well as the addition of Chow as a major role, and the monkey, but they didn't save the movie for me.  I think if you liked the first one it is at least worth a rental.  Unfortunately, I think the Hangover bus stops here.

The Hangover (2009)

Probably going to go see Hangover 2 sometime soon, because my sister is in Richmond for a wedding and its memorial day weekend.  My mom hadn't seen it yet, yes I watched it with my mom, and it had been awhile for me so we saw it Friday in hopes of seeing part 2 Sunday night. (We didn't see it Sunday)

Four friends go to Vegas for a bachelor party.  When the groom goes missing, and none of them can remember the past night they must retrace their steps uncovering clues such as a tiger, a baby, a cop car, and one crazy Chinamen.

40/50 Eggs

So my typical "it's hard to rate comedies, because they're subjective" speech works here.  Hangover for people who haven't heard off it, is very much a younger generation comedy, but my mom said she enjoyed it.  So yea, whatever that means.  I'm not sure how original the plot is, but I definitely enjoyed the "retracing" path the story took.  Galifianakis is hilarious and in my opinion steals the show.  The only negative was Bradley Cooper comes off as the daddy, chaperon character of the three, while looking for Doug.  And of the three cast, he is the most calm and collected, however, at least in my opinion, his typecast is wild, carefree, ladies man.  Its a minor detail but hearing him make a timeline and say "Come on guys, lets do 'so and so' to find Doug" like 5 times just didn't seem right.  Chances are if you can handle minor crude humor you'll enjoy it.