It is difficult to imagine an attempt more foireux cashing in a second time "the hangover part II."
Seriously, it feels like the script has been reconstructed with the help of Mad Libs, with details only slightly different and vulgar replace those who have contributed to the original "Hangover" of 2009 become highest Box-Office R-rated comedy of all time (it is more than 467 million worldwide).
But a large part of the attraction of this first film was the novelty of the premise, the unpredictability of the adventures and the sense that we, too, were wandering in a second State, help solve the mystery of the debauched night before. Despite their sense of panic and throbbing heads, these guys were clearly an explosion, and they made us wish that we could have joined their. This sequence where the motley group of friends wakes up in a fog and surveys of the damage in a Las Vegas trashed hotel suite is a small piece of narrative, full of clever details and meticulous production design brilliant and effective.
Director Todd Phillips, who has also co-authored the script this time (with Craig Mazin and Scot Armstrong), apparently thought, too. That is one of many gags in the first film are repeated in "hangover part II.". Giving people what they want, it is one thing. Making almost the same exact film a second time, but move the parameter in Thailand, just... is that lazy? Arrogant? Perhaps a combination of both.
Instead of find a baby in their hotel room, the guys from find a stiffly, Capuchin monkey drug traffickers. Instead of waking with a missing tooth, dentist light maniéré of the Ed Helms, Stu character, wakes up with a facial tattoo. Instead of bursting into song at the piano add to horrible how the situation is, Stu bursts in the song with an acoustic guitar. And instead of having sex with a hooker with a heart of gold, Stu does it with... Well, we tell you. Suffice it to say, this is the Thailand, it is not that huge a shock.
Bradley Cooper is also back as de facto leader of the group, the arrogant Phil, as Zach Galifianakis: the passive aggressive counterfeiter Alan. Shtick of dark, off the coast of the compliance of the Galifianakis made him the star breakout of the original film, and while he gets more of the best lines here, it is even more frustrating.
Justin Bartha is long, too, but just; like Doug, the groom in the first film, he was missing all the time. Later, it remains safely ensconced in luxury seaside resort of the group, so side missing yet another night wild. While there is less of him, there is also more character Ken Jeong, the unpleasant, effeminate, gangster Mr. Chow. It was the lowest part of the first "hangover" and gets even more face time here, with no improvement.
They are all there for the marriage of Stu and the lovely Lauren (Jamie Chung) in the country of his parents. He insists he does not want the kind of crazy bachelor party consequence Doug who was married, but he gives and is committed to having a beer - in an airtight container - on the beach with his friends. To join them, it is the younger brother of Lauren, Teddy (Lee Mason), student of 16-year-old Stanford pre-medical and cello prodigy.
Of course, the guys all wake up in misery in a hotel of Bangkok (filmed in a tangible, filthy steaminess by Lawrence Sher), absolutely of occultation as to what they did the previous night. Once again. And Yes, the word appears in the script, as in: "I can't believe what's happening again!
We can.
"The hangover part II," a Warner Bros. Pictures release, is rated r for pervasive language, strong sexual contained y included graphic nudity, consumption of drugs and brief violent images. Length: 101 minutes. A year and a half stars out of four.
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