138 out of 142 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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85 out of 91 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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57 out of 64 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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37 out of 40 people found the following review helpful:

trash

A Customer from York, UK, 27th July, 2009

I can't believe the positive press this film has garnered, is this a sign of the dumbed down culture we live in? If I could give this film zero stars I would do. There is nothing new in this film, all old jokes, the characters are not likeable or sympathetic in the slightest (and as a result are totally unfunny) By the end of the film i wanted at least two of the cast to end up being murdered (that would have been funny) Incredibely poor script, bad writing, shabby acting, I can't believe this movie ever got made. You want a hangover movie? Watch Very Bad Things or even Superbad .. this is just a poor imitation of a very poor genre of comedy film making. If you don't get out much and have never had a 'full on' night out then you may get a laugh out of this otherwise save your money and go see something decent. Complete trash with no redeeming factors.

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Average film

Terrier78 from , 20th March, 2010

Totally overrated but an easy watch. The chinese villain is easily the best thing on it but cant save an averge film

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The hangover

mikestheway from , 19th March, 2010

This film is funny witty and entertaining a really good watch. The story line is good and keeps the watcher interested until the end of the movie. Well enjoyable.

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horrible and Dirty

bep from , 19th March, 2010

I realy didnt find this film funny, it was boardering on child melestering. it was gross!!! DONT WATCH THIS FILM. The parts that were funny have been done before and the rest was just WRONG!!!!

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Nothing Special

StarTiger63 from , 19th March, 2010

I just watched this not knowing what to expect, I found it to be a cross between American Pie and Very Bad Things (which was far better). This starts off quiet well with a few comedic scenarios but when they get to Vegas then it just falls apart with a poor plot line sprinkled with a couple more comedy moments but as for the story it's just poor and we don't actually see what happened during that fateful night until the closing credits which to me is just plain stupid and I just don't get it, even the cameo by Mike Tyson is bad, my advice if you haven't seen Very Bad Things yet get that instead otherwise if you are wanting more from this movie you will be disappointed.

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