37 out of 37 people found the following review helpful:

Who needs the Frat Pack?

poochini from , 3rd June, 2009

This Comedy is straight out of the top drawer. Directed by Todd Phillips (the same guy as Road trip, old School, and Starsky and Hutch), It's a comedy which relies on script rather than the pull of the actors involved, and believe me it definitely delivers (Imagine Dude wheres my car, but more grown up, funnier and not just for stoners).

For months comedy's have been churned out which have promised so much with regards to the actors involved and the trailers advertised,but after watching them you cant help but feel they were a little over hyped. Whether thats due to the story, The length of the movie, The amount of laughs, or even the idea that it just should have been better (pineapple express, role models, and mall cop, to name a few).

This one, however, has the lot: Love, Loss, and desperation, and without losing its direction (or laughs) towards the end. It's the right Length, the characters are perfect, the jokes are origional and best of all, laugh out loud funny. Admittedly there are some jokes in there which play with the boundaries of decency, and really make you question how sick you must be to laugh (the babys 'hand guestures' and the naked old guy), But thats just the kind of thing that you will talk, and laugh about when your picking the movie apart long after you've left the cinema.

For those of you who rate Old School as an all time comedy classic then you will LOVE this movie. You'll also appriciate the cameo's along the way, Namely the wedding band at the end of the movie (another classic cover to rival 'Turn Around'). But for those of you who have not seen Old School, and like a good comedy, then you are wasting valuable minutes in your life, and you should put it on your 'High Priority' list now. And for those of you who dont like Old School then......well...... i cant help you.......and you should probably give this movie a miss.

All in all, More of the same style of comedy from Todd Phillips, But still Origional and definitely one of his best so far.

Go and see this Movie.

Viva Las Vegas

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12 out of 14 people found the following review helpful:

Offensive, misogynistic and just not funny

Daniel Pollard from Manchester, England, 10th August, 2009

Is comedy completely subjective? After watching The Hangover I think it is. The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw has given the film a very favourable review. Have I missed something between the lines? Firstly, I thought that nasty blokey comedy had been consigned to the 1990s? Obviously not, as The Hangover is full of it. Secondly, hasn’t this been done before in the stoner comedy, Dude, Where’s My Car? Thirdly, haven’t we moved on from misogynistic movie making? Judging by this film, no. The film’s portrayal of women is very suspect. Heather Mills plays a dumb stripper, whose part is underwritten. The only other woman with a speaking role is a nagging wife who does her best to ruin her partner’s stag weekend and subsequent life. All the other women are shown wandering around a swimming pool half naked. Fourthly, is it just me or is nearly every joke really offensive? Fat people are fat, Chinese people talk funny, breast feeding is gross women’s work and black people are black etc. Fifthly, don’t comedies have narratives anymore? The film is simply a bunch of skits or episodes. One of these episodes includes Mike Tyson, yes, convicted rapist MIKE TYSON, trying to string a sentence together and act! Finally, to find a comedy funny you have to have some sort of investment in the characters, you have to feel for them and care about their predicaments. In the Hangover I didn’t care about any of the characters, the ‘storyline’ or what happened to them. Overall, a 2 hour film that I laughed twice in, one that offended me with its attitudes to everyone that isn’t a white male in their early 30s, and one that bored me.

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13 out of 20 people found the following review helpful:

Hold-on, Hangover!

galgappa from , 23rd July, 2009

If 'funny' is drug use and abuse, alcoholic excess, cameo roles by convicted rapists and homophobic, raceist sterotyping this is your comedy film of the year. This is an insult to the 15-22 age group it is aimed at. The continuity errors are countless, the acting ham, the storyline predictable.

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10 out of 10 people found the following review helpful:

dumb and vile

AlBertHold from , 16th July, 2009

There is nothing witty or ingenious about this movie.It is set in a real environment with an unrealistic plot. If you must see this movie, you are much better off switching all your brain cells off.

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Hungover!

CJH from , 19th October, 2009

Not what you would consider my sort of film, but working at a cinema makes you see more than you might expect! The Hangover is exactly what you would expect; four guys hit Las Vegas for a stag party, but wake up with no memory of the previous night. There's a tiger in the bathroom, the room is wrecked, one of them is missing a tooth, another was in hospital at some point, there's a baby in the closet and one of their friends is missing. What you expect is an overly stupid comedy full of unlikely and impossible situations, and while it does edge towards this chasm, it does retain integrity. Overall I was surprised how I enjoyed this film!

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brilliant

Alicia123 from , 12th October, 2009

really enjoyed this it had me laughing throughout I cant believe actually how funny this film was. Great film make sure you give it a go!

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Wicked film!!

A Customer from Chislehurst, 16th September, 2009

Funniest film i've seen in ages. watched it in the cinema night before going vegas!! every scene cracks you up! must - see film, cant wait for DVD release!!

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Appaling

Lordmelbury from , 8th September, 2009

Misogynistic unfunny drivel for fools who hate cinema. Poorly acted, cruel, contrived, poorly written & structured. It's absolutely awful and you mustn't be fooled by the scores of people who seem to like it. Remember how quickly Take That's comeback tickets sold. This is the world we live in today.

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