The Hangover 2 review

The hangover 2 is supposed to be one of the funniest movies of the year. Whoever decided that must be on whatever drugs the characters took. It was a little funny but all the humor in the sequel could have been found in the original movie. And what little humor there was in no way made up for the scars on my retinas for the crude images flaunted incessantly. At times it was literally painful to watch.

The ushers were definitely right to check IDs at the entrance, because this movie should have been rated NC-17. It also largely employed dumb humor. It reminded me of a high school freshman who thinks cursing and being vulgar is cool and takes it to the extreme just to fit in. If the whole thing was filmed in an inventive, neat or artful way, then it might have made up for its obvious lack of propriety, but no; the filming techniques were pretty typical, reusing some motifs from the first film, and bringing nothing new to the table.

The full frontal male nudity was uncomfortable to watch, and I couldn’t imagine how much worse it would have been if I had seen the film with any members of my family. The idea of the smoking drug dealing monkey was cool and pretty original, not to mention the monkey was a better actor than some of the people. The character Alan, played by Zach Galifianakis, was annoying and dumb. It was hard to believe that a character like that had any friends. The others were not much better. The constantly freaked out groom-to-be, Stu, played by Ed Helms, grated on your nerves after a while, and I’m not sure if best man, Phil, played by Bradley Cooper even had a purpose in this film.

The story was superficial at best and even though it wasn’t predictable, you almost didn’t care what happened in the plot because you knew they would get out of it safely and everything would be OK. It was easy to root out the source of drugs that caused the crazy night; too much emphasis was put into foreshadowing that scene so it was super easy to catch.

This movie was all about shock and eww. There was not much to it but gross-out humor, drug induced stupidity, and uncomfortably embarrassing situations. Word to the wise, don’t watch this with your family. If you liked the first one, and you don’t mind repetition and being scarred for life, then this is the movie for you.

I rate this movie 2 out of five stars and hope that others like it more than I did.