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Friday, May 24, 2013

MOVIE REVIEW: THE HANGOVER PART 3




The Wolfpack set out in search of Mr. Chow after Doug is kidnapped by a criminal seeking to recover $21 million from the diminutive hustler as the decadent Hangover trilogy winds to an outrageous close. Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Ken Jeong, John Goodman, and Melissa McCarthy star in this Warner Bros. release from director Todd Phillips. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Director: Todd Phillips

Cast: Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Justin Bartha, Ken Jeong, John Goodman, Melissa McCarthy

Release Date: May 23, 2013

Rated R for Drug Content, Brief Graphic Nudity, Pervasive Language, Sexual References and Some Violence

Runtime: 1 hr. 40 min.

Genres: Comedy

Review:

“The End.” “It All Ends.” “It Ends.” Etc… I really hope those taglines at the top of the posters are a firm promise. Some series really shouldn’t go past its original film. It’s fairly apparent that The Hangover was the kind of movie that never should have been a franchise. It would have been a smart decision to avoid sequels, like Phillips did with Old School. Instead we were dealt one of the laziest sequels ever. This 3rd film is only marginally better. I do give Phillips credit for mixing up the formula this go around even though it creates a weird serious / comedic tone throughout. As a comedy, it’s never consistently funny. At best it, delivers a handful of chuckles here and there along with long stretches of nothing. By nothing, I mean nothing. No fun, no thrills, no suspense. The audience is just left wading through uninteresting exposition until we get to the next set piece. The cast is just as disinterested as most of the audience, Cooper and Helms in particular. They both seem content in delivering lines from the past films and not much else, not that I really blame them. Zach Galifianakis and Ken Jeong both get larger roles here and are given free reign to do whatever they want. Both take their characters to extremes with grating results. John Goodman and Melissa McCarthy are terribly underused in one note characters. The film has a strange feel about it, like it’s disinterested in itself. The few chuckles that come through don’t last long enough to reach a zenith. It only finds a tad breath of energy in a post credit scene which comes after an awkward slow-mo montage. Let’s hope they don’t renege on their promise to let it end.

D+

9 comments:

  1. Part 1 was awesome, Part 2 was meh. Yours and all the other reviews are a massive warning to me: stay at home, watch something else!
    Thanks, I will :D

    Actually, posters, teasers, trailers, plot etc. all didn't sound interesting at all. After the disappointing THII and the atrocious Due Date, I try to avoid all things Galifianakis and Phillips.

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    1. Trailers actually gave me the slightest of hope it might be fun but nope. I liked Phillips older movies but after The Hangover they've just been a mess.

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  2. It seems like a general rule that comedy sequels suck, I honestly cannot think of one that was better than the original. Also is the first Hangover worth watching?

    -James

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    1. Me either James, I'm drawing a blank. Comedies work better in single shots. First Hangover is a lot of fun, it's R rated raunchy but really fun.

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  3. I did not find the first one funny at all and have avoided the second. Mercifully it all ends as Helms, Cooper and Galifinakis have no timing or chemistry whatsoever. Particularly Cooper, who is just this incredibly bad actor who always manages to turn his roles into slick used car salesmen. I do not understand at all why Cooper is popular, he's no better than David Hasselhoff.

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    1. I still enjoy the first one but I can see why it could turn off a lot of people. 2nd and 3rd are just not very good films. I thought the same thing about Cooper until I saw Silver Linings Playbook, really showed a lot more talent that I thought he had in him.

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    2. Yup, totally agree about Cooper. Silver Linings Playbook was a worthy one.

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  4. wow. i LOVED the first movie, and i watch it all the time. i liked the second one too, just not as much. so i am probably the target audience lol

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    1. Loved the first one as well. 2nd one I just couldn't ever be objective because of how similar it was to the first. This one was different but you can kind of tell they just didn't have their heart in it.

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