A wedding, a smoking monkey, 4 friends, a genius brother-in-law-to-be, an Asian drug dealer/smuggler and the squalor of Bangkok.
I know this sounds like the set up of a joke - it's actually the premise of The Hangover 2. Much like the FIRST movie, this one starts with them actually in the middle of their worst moment. It takes a good 3/4 - 5/6 of the movie to get back to that scene. Right now, this movie is breaking records for the weekend. Let me just share this: there's a lot of moments in this movie where I thought to myself "this is kinda moving slowly". On top of that, there were also times where we just knew what was being set up to happen next. AND...to add insult to injury, (again) one of my biggest pet peeves is seeing the BEST lines from the movie on the trailer - then there's not much left to surprise...and boy, did they do THAT again.
The scenes in Bangkok were great - and the trouble they got into - pretty fantastic. But while I have good feelings about parts of this one, there were moments when I would have looked at my watch had I been wearing one.
Is it worth full price to go? Sure. If you liked the first one, that is. I wouldn't say this one was BETTER than the first one - more of an extension of it. If you go, prepare yourselves for a movie that probably should have been rated NC-17, not "R". For nudity, mostly. Especially in the photos at the end. All that said, if you want a buddy comedy for you and a friend (or spouse) and you don't bring anyone you would feel uncomfortable in ANY WAY with, you should be fine. I just feel this one was a little more raw.
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