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The Hangover
Set in Vegas, baby, this comedy from the director of Old School, Road Trip and School For Scoundrels sees a bunch of boozy groomsmen somehow misplacing their soon-to-be-married stag, then having to re-trace their steps to try and find him again. They need to get him back to LA to get married. To add to their confusion, somehow in the course of their inebriated revelry they’ve acquired a tiger, a chicken, a six-month-old baby and Mike Tyson. Isn’t that always the way…
Starring Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Heather Graham, Justin Bartha, Jeffrey Tambor
Directed by Todd Phillips ('Old School', 'Road Trip', ‘School For Scoundrels’)
Written by Jon Lucas, Scott Moore
Festivals & Awards Golden Globe winner for Best Film (Comedy or Musical), 2010.
Comedy | 1hr 40mins | Rated (R16) | contains offensive language, violence and other content that may offend | Origin: USA | Official Site »
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You'll leave The Hangover hurting. Why? You'll have laughed at least a hundred times and - no matter how many sit-ups you do each day - that's one hell of an abdominal workout. For those taking count, that's a laugh-per-minute average. The writers of this gem of a film have outdone themselves.
Having bestowed all this praise, now might be a good time to add a caveat: The Hangover is not for the easily offended. If you are a sensitive-type though, you'll still appreciate the fact that the picture's characters are unmistakably adult. They live in a world where their actions have real consequences. Hilarious results, definitely, but all bound by the philosophical mantra of 'cause and effect'.
Perhaps part of the magic was in the casting. Unlike many of this season's blockbusters, the actors play the parts so that they listen, feel and react to the circumstances around them. The stars are all willing to pull teeth, pile on the bruises or – in the memorable end-credits sequence – gain a belly-button piercing for their pay-cheque.
A real movie then, set in a real world, and it's real funny too.SHARE:
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Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
A funny movie, flat out, all the way through. Its setup is funny. Every situation is funny. Most of the dialogue is funny almost line by line.
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Hollywood Reporter
A piercingly funny, twisted "whatever-happens-in-Vegas" caper.
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Los Angeles Times
There is a sort of perverse brilliance or brilliant perverseness to be found in this story of a bachelor party gone terribly wrong.
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New York Times
But true to its title, The Hangover goes down smoothly enough and then kicks you in the head later on, when you start to examine the sources of your laughter.
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Variety (USA)
At once raucously free-wheeling and meticulously contrived, picture satisfies as a boys-gone-wild laff riot that also clicks as a seriocomic beat-the-clock detective story.
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