The Hangover

The Hangover

This movie wasn’t what I excepted. Before seeing it, my knowledge of the movie was Vegas, bachelor party, and having a huge hangover. Essentially that’s what the movie is about. But it wasn’t your typical Vegas party movie. Yes there was the random marriage that everyone forgot about, but what made this movie different was that they lost the groom and had no clue what happened…… at all.

Directed by Todd Phillips (All the Kings Men, Old School) and starring Bradley Cooper (Failure to Fly, Yes Man, Weeding Crashers) Ed Helms (Andy from the Office) Zach Galifianakis (Out Cold, What happens in Vegas) Heather Ghram and Justin Bartha (National Treasure, Failure to Fly). It was a very funny movie. Almost everything about the movie was funny. The plot was funny, the characters were funny, and the situations were funny. All the main characters were very funny. There were not many dull moments for me during this movie.

The plot of the movie is that Doug (Justin Bartha) is about to be married, so his friends -- Stu (Ed Helms), a dentist planning on proposing to his girlfriend of three years, Phil (Bradley Cooper), a schoolteacher bored of the married life, and Doug's soon to be brother-in-law Alan (Zach Galifianakis), who is smart yet socially-inept -- take him to Las Vegas for a bachelor party. Stu's girlfriend is very controlling, thereby forcing Stu to lie to her about their destination. The guys get a suite at their hotel, then sneak on to t

he roof of the hotel and toast to the night ahead. Skipping forward to the next morning, the three groomsmen awake with no memory of the previous night. They find Doug missing, Stu missing a tooth, a tiger in the bathroom, and a baby in the closet. Initially they believe Doug to have gone out for breakfast, but soon worry when his cell phone has been left behind. They collect what memories they have to figure what happened to Doug. You discover everything with them, and it is very funny to watch. They end up dealing with Mike Tyson, kidnapping naked Chinese guys, and stealing police cars.

My favorite person in this movie was Zach Galifianakis. I have always thought he was funny. I love him in the movie “Out Cold” and he is a good stand up comedian. He made the movie shine very much. This movie proves that saying things are “gay” is still hilarious, no matter how politically incorrect it may be. Heather Ghram and Justin Bartha have somewhat small roles, you don’t see them that much in the film, but they still did a great job.

There is brief nudity in the film. There is one scene where you see Heather Ghram’s nipple. You just see one nipple for half a second. She is breast feeding, so its nothing really sexual. Other than that, the movie is nudity free. Its rated R for many eff words. If eff words don’t bother you, I highly recommend seeing this movie. It will have your sides hurting from laughing so hard.