The Hangover

Take the Wedding Crashers and and Old School and you have The Hangover.
My teenage daughter told me she laughed throughout the movie, I didn’t. Don’t get me wrong there are plenty of laughs in this movie but my expectations were very high due to the excellent trailer that was shown in theaters months before the movie opened.
You have seen this movie before in various versions. The story is about three groomsmen who lose their about-to-be-wed buddy during their drunken misadventures in Vegas.
Bradley Cooper, the crazy fiance from Wedding Crashers, takes on the Vince Vaughn leading man role and does an ok job. There is a baby in the movie that has the cooliest expressions. I was wondering if some of the expressions were CGI. Also Mike Tyson makes a great appearance, but it is Zach Galifianakis as “Fat Jesus” who steals the movie. Every few years there is a fat comedian that comes on the scene and makes millions, John Belushi, John Candy, Chris Farley, and Artie Lang from the Howard Stern show. Look for big things from Zach. The teenagers sitting behind me in the theater had already seen the movie so I expect this movie to make tons of scratch.

Verdict: Good movie, you will laugh however the editing could have been crisper. Lots of slow periods to go to the bathroom and get food. Best creative part was how they ended the movie.