Tonight is the premiere of The Hangover on cable, and of coarse I had to watch it..... again. Every once and a while a movie comes along that just raises the bar. This is one of those movies. There are very few movies that I actually watched in the theater twice, and once again this was one of them. “The Hangover” actually broke the box office record as the highest grossing R-rated comedy of all time, beating out “Beverly Hills Cop” from 1984.
Pretty much everyone has seen it, but if you haven’t it a pretty simple story. Four guys go to Las Vegas to have a bachelor party for their friend. Fast forward to the morning after and join Phil, Stu, and Alan have to find the missing groom Doug, and try to figure out every thing that happened the night before. The rest is an hour and forty-five minutes of pure hilarity. The first thing my friends and I said to each other after watching the movie was “We’ve got to go to Vegas”.
As they get closer and closer to finding Doug they run into all of the ridiculous characters that they encountered last night. A stripper played by the eternally hot Heather Graham, the ever so agile Mr. Chow, played by Ken Joeng, Jeffery Tambor is perfect as Doug’s soon to be father in-law, and even Mike Tyson plays an integral part of the guys adventure. Yes, Mike Tyson.
Ed Helms plays Stu, a pussy whipped doctor that is worried at every turn, but eventually finds his backbone in Vegas. Bradley Cooper plays Phil, a nonchalant school teacher that actually steals cash from his students to go to sin city. However, it is Zach Galafianakis, as Alan that steals the show with lines like…… “I didn’t know they gave out rings at the Holocaust”, and “Tigers love pepper... they hate cinnamon”, and “He was a ri-tard”, and well……..I can go on forever, or at least an hour and forty-five minutes, but I shouldn’t because if you haven’t seen “The Hangover” you should seriously go watch it now. Or at least watch it again.
We have to go to Vegas!
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