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You might be embarrassed by laughing at some of the silliness, but don't be: Everyone else will be cracking up, too.
The movie smells like a hit, but honestly: Helms excepted, did it need to be quite so blandly cast, or quite so lamely raunchy?
There is a sort of perverse brilliance or brilliant perverseness to be found in this story of a bachelor party gone terribly wrong.
The Hangover, like the condition for which it's named, has some spirited moments, but more often it stumbles and slurs, regurgitating earlier pleasures and praying for the fog to lift.
Amusing as it is, it never feels real.
Memento meets Old School? It's party time.
If the movie's gleeful rush into areas of questionable comedic taste occasionally raises an eyebrow here and there, the end sequence will sear them right off.
A younger generation is finding new stupid things to do underneath the desert sun.
Starting on Monday, Coogan and Bryden share meals . . . and what passes for conversation. When they're not insufferable, they're boring
I highly recommend going into this film blind, just to keep some of the surprises from being ruined. Oh, and being a 21-year-old male will also really help you to enjoy this flick.
The Hangover might not be top class indie pop art, but the film represents the best of what comedy can provide -- pure, unadulterated, slaphappy entertainment. And there's nothing wrong with that.
I can definitely understand why it was a humongous hit, but when all is said and done, once was enough for this partier...
It's good for wasting time and pondering the absurdity of not-so-random events, but not for much else.
A fun time is had watching these three men piece together a night that never was, something of an old school detective story mixed with a heavy dose of adult humour. Better comedies have been released, yet not many as brazen as The Hangover.
The Hangover doesn't contain the constant rip-roaring laughs the likes of Superbad or some of the Frat Pack's best.
Bachelor Party meets Dude, Where's My Car (and about as entertaining as the two of them averaged together.)
The stupid fun of The Hangover is worth experiencing at least once. [Blu-ray]
Todd Philips, who wrote and directed Road Trip and Old Scool, wrote Borat, and even plays the coked out Israeli dude in the elevator in The Hangover, has had his finger on the pulse of modern comedy cinema for a decade.
Quite entertaining as an entry in this tried-and-true genre of "guys going on a inadvertent wacky adventure," and I like how this one is set up as a kind of mystery.
The real underlying message of The Hangover, as in most of Phillips' films, is that women are shrews, whores and/or fools-though Galifinakis is the only one to deal with the homoerotic subtext within the male bonding.
Look at the bright side: It's in high definition, and Tom Green's not in it. (Blu-ray Extreme Edition)
works not because it is a comedy, but because its unimpressive comedic content is framed by much more interesting detective story
Funny, yes, but chock-full of alcohol-fueled adult content.
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