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The Hangover (R-Rated Single-Disc Edition)
RRP: $28.98Our Price: $11.49 (subject to change)Editorial
Product Description
A LAS VEGAS-SET COMEDY CENTERED AROUND THREE GROOMSMEN WHO LOSE THEIR ABOUT-TO-BE-WED BUDDY DURING THEIR DRUNKEN MISADVENTURES, THEN MUST RETRACE THEIR STEPS IN ORDER TO FIND HIM.
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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
Single-handedly setting the cinema back 100 yearsReview date: 2010-07-29 Rating: 2 out of 10Seriously. Charlie Chaplin was more sophisticated than The Hangover.
Lame. Un-funny. This movie is the equivalent a child with a booger on the end of his finger sticking it out at you and expecting you to laugh. Funny to him, not to me.
In addition, this film is proof Roger Ebert can no longer be trusted. The blurb on the back of the box quotes Ebert as rating this three and a half stars, with this assessment: "Now this is what I'm talkin' about. A funny movie, flat out, all the way through."
There's nothing wrong with dumbness and wackiness. Laurel and Hardy. I rest my case. But that was inspired dumbness. Seinfeld was inspired wackiness. This is recycled, clumsy, cheap, easy, obvious dumbness. Seinfeld without the inspiration.
ReviewsLove this movie!Review date: 2010-07-28 Rating: 10 out of 10This movie is one of the funniest of all time. You would be doing yourself a favor by buying this DVD. Laughs a plenty to be had.Gets Funnier Everytime I Watch ItReview date: 2010-07-27 Rating: 10 out of 10This movie kills me. I went through a period where I was flying long distance a lot and pretty much watched it every time I few. The movie got funnier each time I watched it.Best comedy in yearsReview date: 2010-07-26 Rating: 8 out of 10While not quite a movie for women, this is a great movie for guys to enjoy, even if they're staid and boring like me. While I don't drink, gamble or do drugs, I can find the humor in the misadventures that result from unplanned indulgences.
The Las Vegas bachelor party is legendary, but this is really the first movie to pursue showing it off. Three guys head off with their doomed friend for one last blast before he takes the vows. One guy is the uptight dentist with the horrible girlfriend whom he seems to love out of spite, or perhaps despite how badly she treats him including having cheated on him. Another is the guy in denial about his real life with wife and son and the job teaching young kids who wants to live free like an idiot. The third guy is not even a real friend but the brother of the soon-to-be wife. When this third guy tries to ingratiate himself to the group by secretly purchasing drugs, which get mixed up with rufies, he causes the entire story to proceed.
As the guys wake up after the night of adventure with no recollection of how their room got trashed, where the tiger in the bathroom came from, why there's a baby in the closet, and where the groom might be, they pile into their misappropriated cop car and try to trace the steps they cannot remember through the drug-induced haze.
While the adventures are completely ludicrous, from encountering Mike Tyson to getting involved with a gay oriental gangster of sorts, the mismatched reactions of the three are true to their characters' forms and are hilarious to watch unfold. Sadly, only one of the four guys shows any character development over the course of the movie, that being the tightly-wound dentist, while the others end the show in the same state they started.
While this version lacks all the bells and whistles, unless you're happy with ponying up extra dough for more photos of the forgotten night and other behind the scenes features, plus added footage to make it unrated, the theatrical version is hardly a waste of time or money.ONE OF THE MOST HILARIOUSReview date: 2010-07-25 Rating: 10 out of 10This is one of the funniest movies I've ever seen in my life. What made it so funny for me was not only the antics of the characters, but the fact that I could actually see myself becomeing involved in such a situation. In fact, I've been involved in some similar experiences, although thankfully none quite so extreme as this one. Anyway, I believe this is a must see movie for anyone who likes comedy.
Product Details/SpecificationsActor(s):
Justin Bartha
Heather Graham
Ed Helms
Zach Galifianakis
Bradley Cooper
Creators:
Chris Bender (Producer)
Daniel Goldberg (Producer)
David Siegel (Producer)
J.C. Spink (Producer)
Jeffrey Wetzel (Producer)
Jon Lucas (Writer)
Scott Moore (Writer)
Director(s):
Recording label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoEAN: 0883929057832Binding: DVDFormat: Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC, Release date: 2009-12-15Universal product code (UPC): 883929057832Number of discs: 1Aspect ratio: 2.35:1Audience rating: R (Restricted)Region code: 1Running time: 100 minutesTheatrical release date: 2009Language: English (Subtitled)
Language: French (Subtitled)
Language: Spanish (Subtitled)
Language: English (Original Language)
Language: French (Dubbed)
Language: Spanish (Dubbed)
Brand: WARNER HOME VIDEO
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