The Hangover Part 2: What a Joke!
Knowing what I know now about The Hangover 2, had some guy with an eye-patch and a pix-axe invited me down a dark alley prior to the screening, I’d probably have acquiesced.
Playing ‘squeal like a pig’ for a couple of hours with Mr One-Eye would have been more enjoyable than what followed.
Hindsight, of course, is a beautifully useless thing.
An insult to mankind
Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Justin Bartha and Zach Galifianakis return as the Wolf Pack. A new member also joins the fold – but he’s so inconsequential to the ensuing shenanigans that I can’t even remember his name or face.
The movie stalks the shadow of its predecessor with the passion of a schizophrenic’s other self. Each and every beat riffs from the first installment, simply interchanging location to Thiland and comedic props with uninspired equivalents.
Director Todd Phillips seemingly dropped a bunch of objects into a box and asked a one-legged pony to pick them out. “Oh yeah guys, a smoking monkey, that’ll replace the tiger from the first film!”
“Sweet Jesus, it’s a picture of a tattoo, that’ll replace the tooth pulling scene, we are comedy geniuses, we’ve invented the best comedy formula ever, let’s exploit it”
The film is so plug and play that it may well have been written by a computer programme.
The Worst Hangover Ever
Playing out like some annoying guy in the pub who is licensed in the art of successively outdoing his drinking buddy’s story, The Hang Over 2 fails miserably in its battle of one-upmanship with it’s parent film. Needless to say, I was left more down and out than a cannery in a mine shaft.
As so many of us do after a heavy night’s drinking, I left the cinema vowing “never again”.
Rating: 
zach johnson
10:59 am, July 17, 2011
are you joking man? the film was so different to the first one that it was almost the perfect double act. for me if they make a third one and deliever on that too it will be the best trilogy ever. this is going to eclipse the Jurassic park saga which for me was brilliant. This film was so funny, the hangover 2 only played on plot devices from the first one to give viewers a sense of comfort and to get them close to the characters again. Brilliant film 10 out of 10.
Colin Glover
11:03 am, July 17, 2011
i totally agree. this film was funny in places although it used so many plot devices from the first one it was an insult to the human mind. this is targeted at retards that go out like my sister (who doesnt know a good film if it boot her in the ass) and just laugh at the reurccuring jokes that now i look back on it arent really that funny. There was a sense of you knew where the film was going, you knew what was going to happen and pretty much exactly the same as number 1 which is a joke because the first hangover was brilliant and different. And like a good old number 2 this film stank.