Jun. 15, 2011 at 1:31pm
Hangover 2 flows exactly like Hangover 1…like, exactly. And while the series wasn’t exactly inventive in its plot points, it still remained consistently funny. I was laughing throughout. It takes place in Bangkok, and for a comedy, it had some surprisingly pretty shots of Thailand. The movie starts with Stu getting married to a girl from Thailand and after flying the original group out to just outside Bangkok, along with his fiancee’s younger brother, we discover that his bride to be’s father does not like Stu. Two nights before the wedding, the wolf pack convinces Stu to go to the beach to have a single drink in front of a bonfire and thats when the mayhem breaks loose. What follows includes a drug dealing monkey, Paul Giamatti, a severed finger, an uzi, and a the now infamous Tyson tattoo (which, by the way, the tattoo artist’s lawyers won out slightly, and while it can remain in the movie, it must be changed for all of the DVD’s.) The movie was genuinely funny, with enough surprises to keep you entertained, despite you knowing pretty much exactly what was going to happen in the end. It was, however, a far more dark and perverse journey than than its predecessor, though that seemed to have paid off. I give it 4 smoking monkeys out of 5. With a bit of innovation in the plot progression, this movie could have been as great as the first.

Hangover 2 flows exactly like Hangover 1…like, exactly. And while the series wasn’t exactly inventive in its plot points, it still remained consistently funny. I was laughing throughout. It takes place in Bangkok, and for a comedy, it had some surprisingly pretty shots of Thailand. The movie starts with Stu getting married to a girl from Thailand and after flying the original group out to just outside Bangkok, along with his fiancee’s younger brother, we discover that his bride to be’s father does not like Stu. Two nights before the wedding, the wolf pack convinces Stu to go to the beach to have a single drink in front of a bonfire and thats when the mayhem breaks loose. What follows includes a drug dealing monkey, Paul Giamatti, a severed finger, an uzi, and a the now infamous Tyson tattoo (which, by the way, the tattoo artist’s lawyers won out slightly, and while it can remain in the movie, it must be changed for all of the DVD’s.) The movie was genuinely funny, with enough surprises to keep you entertained, despite you knowing pretty much exactly what was going to happen in the end. It was, however, a far more dark and perverse journey than than its predecessor, though that seemed to have paid off. I give it 4 smoking monkeys out of 5. With a bit of innovation in the plot progression, this movie could have been as great as the first.