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List Price: $34.99 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 3
Released: December 15, 2009 |
| Our Price: $19.99 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
They planned a Vegas bachelor party that they would never forget. Now they really need to remember what exactly went down! A baby? A tiger? Why is one of them missing a tooth? And most of all, where is the groom?! What the guys did while partying can't compare to what they must do sober in an outrageous caper that has them piecing together all their bad decisions from the night before-- one hazy clue at a time. Director Todd Phillips (Old School) and an all-aces comedy cast tie one on... big time!
Description of The Hangover (Unrated Two-Disc Special Edition):
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 (Unrated Two-Disc Special Edition) Reviews:
Best Comdey for 2009 
2009-12-17 - Best comedy for 2009. If you like Super Bad, Step Brother, Talladega Nights and Old School you must watch this movie. I would also recommend not letting your any one between the ages 1-13 to watch the movie if your content sensitive.
Very, very funny 
2009-12-17 - A surprise smash hit when released over the summer, The Hangover is probably one of the funniest R-rated slob comedies you'll come across in some time. With the impending nuptuals of their best friend Doug (Justin Bartha) approaching, Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms), and Alan (Zach Galifianakis) take him to Vegas for a night he'll never forget. Trouble is Alan isn't all that bright, and accidentally laces all their drinks with roofies. When Phil, Stu, and Alan all wake up the next day, there's a tiger in their bathroom, a baby in the closet, Stu's missing a tooth, and Doug is missing. What develops throughout The Hangover ranges from predictable to absolutely hilarious and back again, and even though it loses steam as it winds down towards its conclusion, this is definitely the funniest film that Todd Phillips has made since Old School. With cameos and small roles from Heather Graham, Jeffrey Tambor, Mike Epps, and Mike Tyson as himself.
Boring and Not Creative 
2009-12-17 - If you want to waste an evening of your life than I advise you to watch this movie. It was slow and not creative at all. I would rather stare at a tree for two hours than to watch this movie. The acting was horrible and cheesy. If I could give it zero stars i would. Do yourself a favor and not watch this movie, not even for free. I paid for it and I would rather have paid fifteen dollars to someone and have them kick me in the nuts than to pay for this movie. Thanks and have a great day.
the hangover
2009-12-17 - agin this is a movie can be rated between five star and two it's not a one, but i rate these movies how good they could be and compared to the others. this movie did great in the movie theatre because it was about the only movie released any good or that month but it was funny unrelistic but funny . if you like lot of little laughs and new and different scenes this movie is for you
a skit, turned movie 
2009-12-17 - The writer took an oft-used skit (the "I did WHAT last night when I was drunk?#!?") and prolonged it to movie length. I knew exactly what I was in for, 24 minutes into the film.
That being said, I have the crude, sick sense of humor movies liked this are tailored for, yet I only found myself laughing, maybe, twice throughout the entire film (and just briefly at best). I laughed hysterically through Mary, Borat, American Pie, Jackass, etc. and even Bruno, but, this movie didn't do anything for me. It very nearly bored me.
Maybe it was because most of the "hilarious" incidents in the film were nothing I hadn't seen before in a plethora of other movies? Naturally, you can't expect a movie to be 100% original and unique; especially a comedy. But it seems like the writer made no attempt at it.
I still enjoyed it enough to stay in my seat, but to nowhere near the degree that a majority of these other reviews emit. IMO, the movie was definitely overrated.
