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The Hangover
2009
A Las Vegas-set comedy centered around three groomsmen who lose their about-to-be-wed buddy during their drunken misadventures, then must retrace their steps in order to find him. Read more
| Starring | Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Heather Graham |
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| Director | Todd Phillips |
| Genres | Comedy |
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The Hangover
A Las Vegas-set comedy centered around three groomsmen who lose their about-to-be-wed buddy during their drunken misadventures, then must retrace their steps in order to find him.
| Starring | Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Heather Graham, Bryan Callen, Sasha Barrese, Justin Bartha, Jeff, Rachel Harris, Rob Riggle |
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| Director | Todd Phillips |
| Studio | Warner Brothers Pictures UK |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 36 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 39 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Comedy |
| Language | English |
| Released | DVD: 07 Dec 2009 Blu-ray: 07 Dec 2009 Production year: 2009 |
| Format | DVD |
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A Las Vegas-set comedy about three male friends who lose the groom-to-be at his drunken bachelor party, spending the rest of the film trying to find him. read more »
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34 out of 34 people found this review helpful
[Highly rated reviewer]
Who needs the Frat Pack?
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.
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10 out of 12 people found this review helpful
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Offensive, misogynistic and just not funny
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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The Hangover
- 09 Jun 2009
Let’s begin at the end: the credits sequence is the funniest, and the most outrageous finale in ages. I’ve rarely seen an audience sent out on quite such a high. It’s such a spectacular coup, it puts a flattering gloss on a surprisingly ingenious but nevertheless uneven black comedy. This is the third movie in six months produced from a screenplay by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, and it’s so much better than either Four Christmases or The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past that... Read more
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The Hangover
A Las Vegas-set comedy centered around three groomsmen who lose their about-to-be-wed buddy during their drunken misadventures, then must retrace their steps in order to find him....
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