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List Price: $28.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 43
Released: December 15, 2009 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
If you like your humor broadside up, hold the subtlety, you'll want to nurse this Hangover with your best buds. The ensemble cast meshes perfectly--it's like a super-R-rated episode of Friends: silly, slapstick, and completely in the viewer's face. When four pals go to Vegas to celebrate the imminent nuptials of one of them, they partake in a rooftop toast to "a night we'll never forget." But they're in for a big surprise: their celebration drinks were laced with date-rape drugs, so when they awake in their hotel room 12 hours later, not only are they hung over, but they can't remember what they did all night long. Oh, and they're missing the groom-to-be.
The film is so cheerfully raunchy, so fiercely crude, that the humor becomes as intoxicating as the mind-altering substances. The standout in the ensemble is Zach Galifianakis, who is alternately creepy and hilarious. Ed Helm (The Office), in addition to his memory, loses a tooth in uncomfortably realistic fashion, and Bradley Cooper (He's Just Not That into You) has deadpan comic timing that whips along at the speed of light. "Ma'am, you have an incredible rack," he blares to a pedestrian from the squad car the guys have "borrowed." "I should have been a [bleeping] cop," he tells himself approvingly.
Director Todd Phillips brings back his deft handling of the actors and the dude humor that worked so well in Old School, as well as the unctuous Dan Finnerty, memorable as a lounge/wedding singer in both films. But it's the nonstop volley of jokes--most cheerily politically incorrect--that grabs the audience and thrashes it around the hotel room. Just watch out for the tiger in the bathroom. --A.T. Hurley
The Hangover (R-Rated Single-Disc Edition) Reviews:
It's One of the Funniest Movies In a Long Time 
2009-12-01 - I love comedies and Vegas, and this movie was a winning combination. A bunch of B and C list celebs deliver a grade A comedy that is not only hilarious, but more importantly for your DVD purchase, very very rewatchable. I saw this film twice in theaters and plan to get it shortly after it's released. It's raunchy - on the same level as "Wedding Crashers" - but it's an adult comedy. The story is basically a more adult "Dude, Where's My Car." I loved it. 4 1/2 out of 5.
Amazing! 
2009-11-30 - I absolutely love this movie! It's so funny. I don't think it is for young teens though. It has some humor in it that you wouldn't want your child hearing.
The Best Movie Ever!
2009-11-27 - I am not kidding. I saw this movie the weekend my grandmother died, and as I left her hospital room to take a break from all the drama, I thought I needed a little laugh. I laughed so hard at this movie, I had tears streaming down my face throughout. Tyson, the little Asian dude, the baby - WTF? As I walked out of the movie, people were still laughing hysterically, long after the credits were over. (The credits are almost the highlight of the movie).
This is no joke. If you haven't seen this movie - you have to.
This is great, wanted it to last longer !
2009-11-27 - My husband and I both enjoyed this movie and would have liked it to last another hour! How funny it was for the guys to keep finding out one thing after another that they did the night before and not remembering a thing about any of it. Have we all been there???? How frantic would you be if one of you party members was missing and not a clue what happened? A really great concept for a movie that keeps you laughing all the way through.
The funniest "Bachelor Party/Vegas" comedy I had ever watched
2009-11-17 - The screenplay is marvelous. I really cant remember when's the last time that I had laughed that much and loud watching a movie. In short, dont miss it.
