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Just when you were starting to sober up after The Hangover… along comes The Hangover Part II--a deft dose of hair of the dog that will keep fans of the original screaming with laughter once again. Director Todd Phillips brings back his great cast--Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, Justin Bartha, and Ed Helms for another splendid exercise in debauchery--and its painful aftermath. And perhaps surprisingly, The Hangover Part II keeps the laugh levels high. While the element of surprise is not here in the sequel, writer Craig Mazin, Scot Armstrong, and Phillips have upped the shock factor, resulting in humor that's sometimes not exactly politically correct, but is fall-down funny anyway. In The Hangover Part II, Stu (Helms) is marrying a Thai-American woman (Jamie Chung), and the entire wedding party is flying to Thailand for the ceremony. Quicker than you can say "bachelor brunch," the boys are off on some kind of mystery adventure that results in some pretty serious, and pretty hilarious repercussions. (There's an unfortunate tattoo incident, one not easily covered up; there's an unexplained monkey--in a Rolling Stones shirt--now added to the entourage; and one of the group is missing.) The setup is familiar, but the ensemble of actors is so confident, their chemistry so easy, that the viewer enjoys their long, strange trip with bust-out-loud laughs. And you can't ask for much more in a buddy comedy. --A.T. Hurley
Amazon.co.uk Review
Just when you were starting to sober up after The Hangover… along comes The Hangover Part II--a deft dose of hair of the dog that will keep fans of the original screaming with laughter once again. Director Todd Phillips brings back his great cast--Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, Justin Bartha, and Ed Helms for another splendid exercise in debauchery--and its painful aftermath. And perhaps surprisingly, The Hangover Part II keeps the laugh levels high. While the element of surprise is not here in the sequel, writer Craig Mazin, Scot Armstrong, and Phillips have upped the shock factor, resulting in humor that's sometimes not exactly politically correct, but is fall-down funny anyway. In The Hangover Part II, Stu (Helms) is marrying a Thai-American woman (Jamie Chung), and the entire wedding party is flying to Thailand for the ceremony. Quicker than you can say "bachelor brunch," the boys are off on some kind of mystery adventure that results in some pretty serious, and pretty hilarious repercussions. (There's an unfortunate tattoo incident, one not easily covered up; there's an unexplained monkey--in a Rolling Stones shirt--now added to the entourage; and one of the group is missing.) The setup is familiar, but the ensemble of actors is so confident, their chemistry so easy, that the viewer enjoys their long, strange trip with bust-out-loud laughs. And you can't ask for much more in a buddy comedy. --A.T. Hurley
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18 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Pefect example of a sequel,
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This review is from: The Hangover Part II [DVD] [2011] (DVD)
If there was ever a shining example of why NOT to make a sequel... this is it. Its appalling.First one was funny, this one is just crude and nasty. The characters have totally lost their loveability. We didn't laugh once throughout the whole film. Sorely disappointing.
20 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Just what I expected,
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This review is from: The Hangover Part II [DVD] [2011] (DVD)
A quick paraphrasing of Absolute Radio's overly generous snippet helps sum this movie up: twice as mad, half as funny. Its problem is twofold: it's at its best when it gives you a word-for-word re-enactment of the original, which, of course, makes it redundant. When it dares to deviate, which is seldom, it does so by `raising the volume' - a commonly used tactic when big studios condescend their audience by assuming mass appeal can only be reached by removing any trace of subtlety. So the jokes, though structurally on the same lines, are louder. Stu wakes up with an unexplained facial tattoo instead of the minor inconvenience of a lost incisor. The screenwriter's insatiable thirst for dramatic shock tactics carries on with the occasional machine gun going off in bar and the ingenious joke about a monkey with an erection. As the movie is little more than a collection of caricatures, you'll have your favourite examples by the end of it. You begin to wonder why the original surprised you at all. And that's what's wrong here, the thinking that if a joke is made louder, it becomes funnier. Comedy is far more hard work than that.What gives even more the impression of a team short on time, or inclination, is how its peripheral parts are so badly integrated into the movie. Chow is back because of his popularity on the original, even though he has no obvious role here. It's `opinion poll casting' at its worst; Chow, who started off as a parody is taken one step further and is now a parodying himself - gone is the mystery behind him that made his outbursts so funny in the original, and instead we have a little Chinamen capable only of snorting coke and crass pigeon English. But by now the overblown clichés have piled up so high that it would take a clipboard, tally system and overworked wrists to count them. Similarly, the fortuitous addition of Mike Tyson, adding nothing whatsoever to the plot, could only have been a cynical ploy to win popularity by name recognition. And that, alas, just about sums the movie up. Get some booze and some people over and just watch the original again, I assure you it'll be a better experience.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
2nd instalment,
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This review is from: The Hangover Part II [DVD] [2011] (DVD)
This film is not as good as the first film but does have some good bits in it, which is the reason I have given it 3 stars.
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