Hangover II

There's a school of thought in Hollyweird that says if you make one huge blockbuster movie, you need to rush a sequel into the theaters as quickly as possible. The first weekend, all the people who LOVED the first film will flock to the sequel, before they read the reviews. I read the very lukewarm reviews and went to see Hangover II anyway.

Here's my excuse: Thor 3-D was not playing at the time we wanted to go to the movies.

We couldn't talk Michael into seeing Super 8.

My daughter also wanted to see Hangover II. I could tell this by the way she squealed when we were talking about movie choices.

My son had already seen it and wanted to see it again. I thought what the heck, it's playing at the cheap theater.

Next time that same sequence of events happen, instead of seeing a movie I am pretty sure is going to be bad, I will simply grab a board and hit myself in the head repeatedly. Why? Because that will be more fun than sitting through such a godawful BAD movie.

Hangover I was bad, but it was fun. Hangover II is just bad. I think I laughed twice during the whole film.

Here are the main differences between this and the first movie. Ready?

Instead of Doug getting married, Stu is getting married.

Instead of las Vegas, they are in Bangkok.

Instead of carrying around a baby, they carry around a capuchin monkey.

Instead of losing a tooth, Stu gets a face tattoo.

Instead of having a horrible, witchy fiance, Stu has a horrible, mean future father-in-law.

It's like the screenwriters took the first film and did a mark-thru of the first script's nouns and replaced them with new nouns. I'm sure someone then said well, this isn't great. Let's up the ante. Let's get really shocking. Let's cut off someone's finger. Let's have lot of male frontal nudity.

Oh yeah, and let's get Mike Tyson back for another cameo! And let's let him sing again!

I will hear Tyson's singing in my nightmares for the rest of my life. It was so off-key it was painful.

And the crazy little Asian guy, Mr. Chow - let's have him pop out of an ice machine instead of a car trunk!

And just let me say a word about Zach Galifianakis. I have now seen him in several movies. He is a horrible actor. He plays himself in all his movies, basically. Don't believe me? Rent Due Date, or Dinner for Schmucks. Terrible films, both of them. Zach plays pretty much the same character in everything.

I want to slap him, very hard. Then I want other people to slap him. Finally, I want to send him to prison so he can never be in another movie, ever again. Ever. I despise him that much.

It was interesting seeing Bangkok, I will admit that. Looking at Bradley Cooper is fairly pleasant, except he looked like he had BO through the whole movie.

If you still think maybe you might want to see this huge waste of time, check out this site, where you can see clips from the movie.

Watch the clips. Go ahead. I'll wait.

Laughing? Then go see it, by all means. Looking puzzled and disgusted? Then skip it.

Or go hit yourself in the head repeatedly with a heavy board. That will be more fun.

Comments

[movie shane]

Just watch it,,, although the plot is so much alike the first one,,, it still a funny treat... and fresh setting...

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I think audience reaction is a different thing than talking in a theater. Enthusiasm is always welcome. Thanks for the post!
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[Dee]

I know what you mean. I usually am more relaxed watching farcical and/or naughty movies without my kids. However, funny is funny, and Hangover II just wasn't funny, IMHO.

[Bronwyn]

Hey! I want to see Hangover 2. I read your review. I always viewed movies differently when I watched them with Ian. . I think the last movie I watched with Ian was Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle. I was appalled and could not enjoy the show knowing my teen was exposed to the content! Same with 40 Year Old Virgin. I tried watching it 3 times and would turn it off during it. I hated the thought my teen watched this and heard such casual approaches to such intimate sex. I finally watched it with friends and thought the movie was very funny! I loved Hangover 1 the first time I saw it- laughed so much. Other time I saw it on tv, I didnt really laugh. The surprise factor and absurdity was the key to it, I think. I look at movies like that as mindless entertainment. Funny, outrageous and fun with friends.