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5.06.09 # Review # 10 Comments
The Hangover reviews have arrived. Will they make everybody involved want to party?
This is directed by Todd Phillips, the guy behind Road Trip, Old School, Starsky & Hutch and School for Scoundrels. Believe it or not, he’s Oscar nominated. I’ll leave you to guess what for.
Look out for a reportedly excellent final credit sequence made up of all the lost camera photos.
Despite every indication, the movie does not co-star our own blogger Dalmatian Jaws.
Here’s what the movie critics are saying -
“Proudly inappropriate and buoyed by both a clever script and some obvious chemistry between the film’s male leads… The Hangover is structured like a humourous mystery…it offers a tight storyline, resulting in a rare comedy with a potent dramatic engine. …while the ultimate outcome doesn’t live up to the setup’s potential, the journey is sufficiently rewarding.”
“a piercingly funny, twisted ‘whatever-happens-in-Vegas’ caper that can’t be faulted for not taking full advantage of its R rating. …a surefire breakout turn by Zach Galifianakis, in the same way Will Ferrell busted out after his fearless turn in Old School.”
Variety -
“Ken Jeong makes the absolute most of his limited screen time as an effete antagonist whose mincing trash talk likely will be quoted extensively by the pic’s fans. …Cinematography does an excellent job of subtly enhancing the sense of danger lying just below the comic surface.”
The Hangover currently holds a 82% rating on Rotten Tomatoes from 45 reviews.
Leave your own The Hangover reviews, and your best real life hangover stories, in the comments.
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It started off really funny, I could even get past the offensive language. I was shocked
by the degree of nudity, actually bearing
all! There was even an actual scene of someone performing oral sex.
Rated “R” it should of been a rating X!
they even had a baby making masturbation motions. I felt unprepared for this movie,
I felt sick that I was blind sided and I contributed money to the producers.
Viewers beware…DO NOT take your young children
“Viewers beware…DO NOT take your young children”
Trini…Duh! Any parent who takes there kids to an R rated movie should be slapped by everyone else at the theatre.
For that matter “SLAP”
Its R rated. What did you expect! Oh wait I know you were expecting “Twilight”!
You can’t complain about something you willing went and saw. That is why I will never pay to see Twilight! That’s you own damn fault. Thank God R rated movies are pushing the limits!
I can’t stand cookie cutter movies that state they are rated R when they should be rated PG or PG-13!
Bring back the 70’s and 80’s movies filled with boobs, blood and gratuitous amounts of sex. ALL HAIL THE “R” RATING!!!
i loved this movie…i know films and so do the makers of the hangover…….i loved the timeline starting near the end and going back to the beginning with pieces filled in along the way and especially during credits…the gap in time was played perfectly..you leave the theatre with bits and pieces of what happened during that gap in time, just the same way the carachters experienced…………..like them you don’t know exactly what happened to who and when and how…..they must have had a blast dreaming up what ultimatly became what you see during the credits………..also i can see how well the makers of this understand the world from which the carachters come from….
and i forgot to mention the cinematography was so great.all on location, the best lighting i have seen in a long time, all so very natural and i liked the film stock, not that blue-hued digital crap that looks like crap….it was like a throwback how films used to be made that LOOK incredibly perfect.like this film..
My brother and I went to Hangover last nite…we are not prudes, nor are we ultra-conservatives – we HATED this film. My 25 year old daughter warned me, but I bought my ticket and went in. I regret having seen this, and paid lots-o-money for the ticket. Crass,vulgar, idiotic. The kind of humor that 12 year old boys dig. A total waste of our time and brain cells. We had to figure out how to wash our brains of the ridiculous and crass images. Not to mention, again, 12 year old boy humor. THUMBS DOWN.
cpj
Honestly, i don’t understand why somebody would take their children to a rated R movie; so Trini your comments is completely inappropiate.
I saw The Hangover last weekend and i have to admit that i haven’t laughed in that way in years. Excellent script, excellent production, and i don’t know in other theaters but the one that i went people was laughing nonstop. Some strong scenes yes, but it is an R rated movie ladies and gentlemen.
GO WATCH IT IF YOU HAVEN’T and if you did i know you would love to watch it again…
“The Hangover” has it all from beginning to end and I agree with other bloggers about laughing throughout. I saw it yesterday and the only audience members in my vicinity who were not laughing were three older ladies in front of me. They only looked shocked, nervously glancing at each other during many scenes, then leaving as soon as the credits rolled, probably a good thing.
Should have been rated X or purged of a few scenes that
used porn in vain attempts to get a laugh. Otherwise, it was hilarious. If I had it to do over, I wouldn’t have wasted my money. Only small brains laugh at these ridiculous nude and offensive scenes.
well,
i’m not one for movies full of sex, drugs & alcohol
but this was an execption
funny beyond belief,
i don’t usually watch R rated movies, or really anything for that matter, but the humour that just seemed 2 so naturally radiate from the characters more than compensated for this. The storyline was so well thought up & great attnetion was paid to the finer details of the plot. Would watch again & recommend to others however it is definetely not a movie fro children. Perhaps for the maturer teens at least.
THE HANGOVER WAS AMAZINGLY FUNNY, dont slam the for having offensive material its rated R cant wait for the sequel!!!