adonis98-743-186503 Three buddies wake up from a bachelor party in Las Vegas, with no memory of the previous night and the bachelor missing. They make their way around the city in order to find their friend before his wedding. The Hangover is for sure kind of overrated and way far from being one of the best comedies of all time but the film totally works thanks to great perfomances by Ed Helms, Bradley Cooper and Zach Galifianakis plus the movie is pretty insane from kids, to tigers to a missing tooth and even Mike Tyson, this is definitely a very fun comedy for sure. (8/10)

eric262003 Under the direction from Todd Phillips, "The Hangover" truly personifies what it's really like to be a man (in its assets and liabilities). Comedies have personified men in ways where they can be seen as overly melancholy or too crude in their demeanour, but Phillips like he did with "Old School" and "Starsky and Hutch", here he knows his psychology towards the male gender without making by avoiding the traps of making them fun-loving, vulnerable and yet sincere. What makes Phillips successful as a director is his sincerity, even when his films don't always score high at the box office. o me "The Hangover" is one of the funniest films of 2009. When you think about it most men behave the way that the characters in this movie are depicted. They can be crude, eccentric, and macabre in nature, especially when they are on the road together. While at the same time, they could be juvenile in their wild sexual urges, but also nourishing once they've settled in. But the reality is hat most men especially the married ones would rather feel comfort bonding and opening up to other men over their wives, to get a better understanding of what it's like to be a guy and to solidify their role as an alpha male. The simple plot of "The Hangover" is about four friends who venture off to Las Vegas partying off like there's no tomorrow...only to wake up hungover and blanked out about the events that happened yesterday only to find their hotel trashed, an abandoned baby, a Bengal tiger roaming around loosely and chickens scattered all over the suite. To be blunt something doesn't quite add up. An early scene describes the importance of male-bonding. We have one of the four guys named Stu (Ed Helms), a well disciplined dentist who is living with a self-absorbed control freak girlfriend named Melissa (Rachael Harris), whom he plans on marrying. She finds it uncouth that he's hanging out with his friends even though she think they're going to Napa Valley to indulge in wine testing. In her eyes, Melissa believes that men are practically disobedient women who need female partner to set them on the straight and narrow. But in reality, Stu being more level-headed than the other guys just really wants to socailize with someone of his gender. The events that proceed might turn into the worst two days of their lives while at the same it's also the best two days of their lives. While the well-disciplined Stu hangs out with his three friends, which are Doug (Justin Bartha), the groom-to-be who's very protective of the Mercedes his father-in-law lent him (Oy vey!) Then there's Phil (Bradley Cooper) a cool customer who's not very comfortable about being domestic. And then you have Alan (Zach Galifianakis), Doug's future brother-in-law who steals the show as their simple friend who's there for the ride, but has well intentions. The opening scenes in "The Hangover" are funny not only in the situations these characters are facing, but the dialogue is also both clever and witty. Phillips along with screenwriters Jon Lucas and Scott Moore call all in the humour that at times boarders on grotesque (one characters serves his breakfast with a side of vomit) but it fits well into the story. These are just average guys who just want to have fun, although they found it more complex than they could imagine because it's harder to have fun when you're older than compared to when you were a teenager. By the time they wake up, Stu's front tooth was extracted, Phil is seen sporting a hospital bracelet around his waist and Doug is MIA. The fun was sweet but the hangover is the least of their problems. The search for Doug gives the gang a reason for staying their welcome in Vegas and helps the story flow quite naturally. As they come to their senses, the gang start to realize how everything turned out the ay it did and will stop at nothing to correct themselves and their situations. The weak areas of the film come during the last act where the comical factors get watered down. But it never loses its focus or meanders off in another genre. It's a dark comedy that stays true to its genre. Many sitcoms and other comedy movies can learn a thing or two from "The Hangover". In its duration, the crew from "The Hangover" took the liberties to offer the film with vulgar and tasteless jokes and scenarios and outrageously deliver plot twists that unpredictably come from out of nowhere. Just when they think they got everything under control, they pull back, which is not all that bad. "The Hangover" is movie that never delves into anything remotely horrible, but rather the horrible events they encountered that created memories that could pass on to their kids when they're older.

johnnyboyz Do not expect to see anything 'new' in "The Hangover", which is played for good, old-fashioned bawdy belly laughs. It has no real plot, although is very easy to pitch; possesses very little in the way of characterisation, although lots of people are frequently coming and going from the frame, and on top of everything else, does not seem to have a single thing to say on any particular issue whatsoever. We have already experienced quite a lot of what transpires here in an "American Pie" film, or some such other contemporary comedy about adults who should know better. Cameos by famous boxers and maybe a liberal use of various pop songs aside, there is very little actually going on.Justin Bartha plays Doug, who is about to be married to Tracy (Barrese), in what promises to be a lavish Californian wedding between two people very much in love. In the opening scene, Doug and his brother-in-law to-be Alan (Galifianakis) are sizing up their wedding day apparel: Doug is shaven, handsome, has a good build and looks smart – he's worn suits in the past and he'll wear them again. Alan, by comparison, is flabby; unshaven and childlike – we do not sense he has ever worn a suit in his life, nor that he has ever had many friends.Ahead of these two men, and before the wedding, is a trip to the Nevada city of Las Vegas, which they are lining up with two more of Doug's friends so as to provide the husband-to-be with a final night of bachelor driven fun and frolics. Of these two men, one is Bradley Cooper's Phil, whom we do not believe for one second is a teacher, while the other is Stuart (Helms), whom we do believe is a dentist and might possess a nice house in a good part of town with a sensible girlfriend who espouses conservative views on gambling and prostitution.Discounting Alan, who is now family and present by default, we are unconvinced that each of these three men would really meet one another in life and hit it off to the extent they would entrust one another on a booze-cruise to Vegas. The film is not especially interested in who any of these people really are or what they think, just that Phil is very bohemian and aggressive; Stu is ultra-defensive due to a white-lie he has told his partner about going in the first place; Doug seems to be a kind of 'glue' which keeps everything from falling apart and that Alan is a little retarded.Once in Las Vegas, the night out gives way to a morning after characterised by a wrecked hotel room and a total lack of memory of what happened. The major problem is that Doug did not wake up in the hotel suite with them. Consumed with panic, the three take to the daytime streets of Vegas on whatever meagre clues they have as they frantically try to piece together just what it was they did last night.The set up allows the film to 'drop' various things on us which we might not otherwise find funny, such as a police car matching their valet ticket; two gangsters popping out of nowhere with baseball bats ready to do serious damage and a nude gentleman jumping out of a car boot. Other films would need to depict why these things are as they are, and would thus lose a lot of impact."The Hangover" is not without one or two genuine laughs, with the very sudden homage to "Rain Man" being one of them and a very amusing scene of confusion whereby an exchange with some unruly gangsters returns the 'wrong' Doug. Yet the overriding item permeating throughout is the strange sense of disassociation we feel as Phil; Alan and Stuart charge around various hotspots looking for the groom while essentially trying to save their own skins from various wives and in-laws finding out: Do we care if they find Doug, or that he gets to the wedding? Who is anybody in this film anyway? Why does any of this even matter in the first place? Prior to their losing him, care is taken to set up a series of items which exist to then later be knocked down: Stuart's girlfriend, Melissa, hates Las Vegas and thinks he's gone to a winery; the gang's mode of transportation is an antique silver Mercedes lent to Doug by his fiancé's father, while Stuart's ring belonged to his grandmother, who survived Hitler's Final Solution. Are we surprised, or even amused, when any of these delicately poised things become tarnished or threatened by the chaos which begins to unfold around our leads? The Hangover's director is Todd Phillips, who wrote 2006's "Borat" and before that directed "Road Trip". He later made "Due Date" in 2010, and "The Hangover" very much falls into line with that 'Phillips-ian' road movie-comedy-perpetual chaos 'aesthetic' which he seems to enjoy penning and making. "Borat" was often very funny because of the outlandishness of the central character and what he had to say to real people in real situations. "Road Trip" was about someone who had to learn to appreciate what he had, while "Due Date" depicted somebody learning to accept those different to him."The Hangover" isn't really about anything or anyone. Its opening montage of Vegas set to the gloomy tones of Bill Withers, followed by a shot of the four roadside and looking pretty desperate, seem to set something up on the nature of Vegas, but by the end the consensus seems to be that it's a pretty darned great place to go and that pole dancers make for better wives than conservatives. Once it's finished, we have seen a series of moderately unfunny scenes of no real order or coherence; have laughed maybe twice and been offended at least once. Skipping this particular Hangover is advisable.

patomartinezfgo Many people over the years have told me to watch a movie called "The Hangover". When I saw the poster for the first time in 2009 I thought it looked kind of dumb and didn't really pay attention to it. Which is a damn shame!I really enjoyed this movie. It has some very good comedy and the story itself is very interesting. I was laughing all the way from beginning to end.Lets start with the characters. The three main leads are great. Each one of them was completely different and hilarious. You get that cozy feeling of belonging to the group that you get when watching TV sitcoms.The things that happen are way over the top, but in a good way. I never expected all of those things to happen. The story is also very interesting, you want to know what happened as much as the characters in the film. It is actually a very clever idea for a comedy.I would also like to praise the very good soundtrack and camera work, that reveals things to us in such a good way. The script is pretty great too, I loved how little exposition there was and we still understood a lot of things.In the end, The Hangover is just one of those movies that will keep you entertained throughout the whole run-time and you will really remember.Don't watch the second and third one though, those really suck.