The Hangover 2

[EthanRunt]

Matt dropped it to a two? He seemed to be more lenient after the film. Maybe a night of pondering made him realise how bad the film was...

[TheDude]

Well it wasn’t that bad after all, these critics must be a bunch of miserable sods!

The cinema last night was packed and the audience was in stitches all the way through, in fact the woman behind me was crying at one point as she couldn't stop laughing, and with all that shrieking I missed some of the dialogue.

Sequels are rarely better than originals so I don’t know why the expectations were so high anyway. This film does what it says on the tin, and if you liked the first one I’m pretty sure you will like part 2 as well. It’s the same formula, things predictably get out of control, and although the film runs out of steam after an hour or so, there is enough entertainment value for me to rate it above average, somewhere around 7/10.

Zack Galifianakis is great as usual and he gets all the best lines, frankly he could recite the Bangkok guidebook for two hours it’d still make me laugh. Ed Helms is also pretty good, the monkey is very sweet, and Paul Giamatti pops up in a couple of scenes too. Mike Tyson’s cameo is just cringeworthy though, and it’s a big shame they had to re-shoot the tattoo parlour scene, Liam Neeson would have been great in there. Hope they include his deleted scenes in the dvd extras.

I’m also happy to hear a Glenn Danzig song at the start of the film (though it’s not that great), and The Beast in Me by Johnny Cash is perfect when the “wolfpack” first wake up.

Anyway, enough waffling, just ignore the critics and see it if you liked the first one!

[superhero]

Most people are ignoring the critics anyway, it's opened massively in the States (and probably in the UK too). Would report back in box office thread at the end of the weekend.

[canadian_turtle]

I loved the first movie and was actually looking forward to watching it being repeated (which seemed to me what most critics fell over?), but I was disappointed. Very few of the jokes worked for me this time around and more often than not it seemed like the writers found it more important to write something extreme/disgusting than to think if it was actually funny. Almost worth it just to ogle Bradley Cooper for the duration of it though. And Ed Helms is absolutely brilliant (we get another little song in this movie and the times he freaks out are the highligths of the movie).

[EthanRunt]

Heard it did £2m in the UK on Thursday.

[rawsalsa]

Oh dear ...the reviews are not looking good at the moment

[David]

I loved the first movie and was actually looking forward to watching it being repeated (which seemed to me what most critics fell over?), but I was disappointed. Very few of the jokes worked for me this time around and more often than not it seemed like the writers found it more important to write something extreme/disgusting than to think if it was actually funny. Almost worth it just to ogle Bradley Cooper for the duration of it though. And Ed Helms is absolutely brilliant (we get another little song in this movie and the times he freaks out are the highligths of the movie).

Yeah I love Ed Helms too. It seems like everything he's in he has to do some singing. You can tell he loves it! He's great in The Office.

[kotoranka]

I kind of want to see this, watched the first one and absolutely loved it, but was hoping the reviews would be kind to this as I'm not overly keen on watching a sequel that completely mirrors the first one. May bother for an Orange 2-4-1 on a Wednesday though, depending on if a group of friends wants to see this as well.

[superhero]

I think part III is a no brainer, but I hear the cast wants much more $$$ and even though the p*ying audience loved it, they would do well to heed the critics advice to add some new angle to part III instead of another carbon copy (even though personally I feel that criticism is slightly unfair)

[aruif]

i've not read any reviews or seen any trailers and i used my wowcher to go and see it this afternoon. it was a half full cinema and everyone was laughing a lot throughout. a few bits i didn't like with the monkey but i did enjoy it, pretty much what i expected.