“Tigers love pepper. They hate cinnamon.”
Written: Jun 15 '09
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Pros: Everything!!
Cons: This is a "hard R" rating, it's just shy of "X" rated at spots.
The Bottom Line: This is "pee your pants" funny. Especially the last 60 seconds.
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| pcomsec's Full Review: The Hangover |
Ahoy there be SPOILERS ahead!!
Let me just say this is the funniest movie I have seen all year! OMG! I honestly thought I would pee my pants, especially the last 60 seconds or so where they find the digital camera and are looking at the pictures they took (of what they can’t remember). It is so funny that I am going to see it again this Thursday when I take hubby to see it as part of his Father’s Day celebration.
Story in a nutshell - 3 friends take their soon-to-be-a-groom friend to Vegas, they lose him and they have no idea what went on the night before.
The movie is a bit like "Pulp Fiction" in that it starts at the end, and then goes back to the beginning to explain everything.
The movie opens with the 3 friends in a beat-up Mercedes on a desert road, calling the bride-to-be and telling her that it looks like the wedding that is to happen in 5 hours, might not happen. Then the film cuts to the beginning as they are preparing to go to Vegas.
Bradley Cooper is "Phil" (from "He’s Just Not That Into You", "Wedding Crashers", "Yes Man"); Ed Helms is "Stu" (from "the Office", "Semi-Pro", "Walk Hard: the Dewey Cox Story", "Evan Almighty"); Zach Galifianalkis is "Alan" (from "What Happens In Vegas", "Into the Wild"), Justin Bartha is "Doug" the groom (from "National Treasure", "Failure to Launch"), Heather is "Jade" the hooker/escort (from "Bobby", "Boogie Nights", "From Hell"); and Mike Epps is "Black Doug" (from "Soul Men", "Roll Bounce", "The Fighting Temptations", "Malibu’s Most Wanted").
This movie also reminded me of several other movies - "After Hours", "Adventures in Babysitting" and "Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead" in that everything starts out fine, then goes horribly wrong, but by the end everything is back to normal and no one is the wiser.
It basically starts out with the 3 of the guys waking up in their $4,200 a night villa - which has been destroyed - and no one remembers what happened. Or how the tiger got in the bathroom. Or why a baby is in a closet. Or why Stu’s missing a tooth.
Doug has very little screen time because most of the movie is spent looking for him, so the action focuses on the other 3 looking for clues. Stu is the hen-pecked Dentist ("I’m a doctor" - "No you’re not. You’re a dentist") boyfriend who finally grows a pair by the end of the movie and breaks up with his harpy girlfriend of 3 years who slept with a bartender on a cruise she went on over the summer. He is also the one who loses a tooth. In real life, the actor is missing that tooth, so he just removed his fake tooth for the movie. (I kept wondering how they "faked" the missing tooth so realistically until I found out he really is missing a tooth.)
Alan is the brother of the bride, and basically a loner (or the lone wolf in his "wolfpack", but then Doug came along, so the "wolfpack" doubled and now with Stu and Phil, the "wolfpack" has grown to 4). The "wolfpack" reference is part of a toast that Alan wrote and read to the other 3. It’s much, much funnier and longer that what I just recited. He’s pretty much only invited because he’s the brother of the bride and future brother-in-law of Doug. He ends up being the funniest character - I think. He has the funniest lines and some of the most inappropriate ones too! He is referred to by the little gay Chinese man as "Fat Jesus".
The little gay Chinese man has mistakenly been accidently "kidnapped" by them the night before and held in the trunk of the Mercedes. Don’t you hate when that happens?
Phil is the coolest (and the cutest.) He pretty much plays the straight man to the other two, except when the angry, naked, little gay Chinese man jumps out of the trunk of the Mercedes and lands on his face. That’s pretty funny. How did Phil get the "moveable" scratches from the tiger? Oh by the way did I mention the tiger is Mike Tyson’s and they stole it? And Mike came to their hotel room looking for the tiger and is making them bring the tiger back to his house, so they had to drug it with the Ruffies. And that once they have drugged the tiger, the drugs start to wear off as they are driving to Mike’s house in the Mercedes, and you see the tiger rise up in the back seat - all 3 of them are of course in the front seat - and the tiger does what tiger’s do - scratch! At Tyson’s house, they end up watching Mike Tyson’s security tape where he has them on film stealing the tiger. Mike is actually funny in the few scenes he has in the movie. And to see him holding the "tiny" - well compared to him - French bulldog on his lap, well that’s pretty funny.
A classic scene is when they are waiting in their hotel room for the Ruffies to take effect on the tiger, Stu sits at the piano and signs a tiger lullaby he made up.
Now the reason they can’t remember what happened to them is not because they drank too much - which they did, but because Alan put what he thought was Ecstacy in their drinks, when in reality it was Ruffies (the date rape drug). "Ruffies? Why do they call them Ruffies? They should call them ‘floories’ ‘cause that’s where you end up. The floor. Or rapeys."
3 sets of twins and a "dummy" baby were used to portray the baby in the movie and one of the Mercedes used in the film was stolen but then later recovered. There were a couple of "mistakes" I noticed in the movie. One is that the tiger scratches on Phil’s neck change positions at times; 2 - the French Bulldog that Mike Tyson is holding on his lap changes positions multiple times and 3 - the steak they feed the tiger is "mushy" when they are putting the pills in it and "solid" when it is being handed to the tiger.
The funniest part is the last 60 or so seconds where they are looking over the pictures from the digital camera they found. These pictures explain a lot of what went on the night before that wasn’t explained up till now.
So did I like it? Oh yes, yes, yes! Like I said I am taking hubby to see it this week and I will definitely be buying this as soon as it comes out on DVD.
Recommended:
Yes
Movie Mood: Funny Movie
Viewing Method: Other
Film Completeness: Looked complete to me.
Worst Part of this Film: Nothing
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