The stuff of urban legend is touted in this immature-men-behaving-badly, morning-after look at a Vegas bachelor party none of the participants can remember. Despite the chicken, tiger, baby, stolen police car, missing tooth--and missing groom-to-be. Bland Doug (Bartha) is accompanied to Sin City by cynical married Phil (Cooper), milquetoast dentist Stu (Helms) and his fiancee's brother Alan (Galifianakis), none-too-bright and somewhat creepily overeager to belong. After many booze-fueled hours of debauchery, the groomsmen struggle to retrace their steps in an effort to find Doug, meeting (or re-meeting) sweet stripper/hooker Jade (Graham) as well as tiger-owning Mike Tyson and a trash-talking gangster (Jeong). Rowdy, raunchy, and more clever than it needs to be.
Todd Phillips's The Hangover appears primed to be the breakout comedy of the year and I'm sure I'm going to get a lot of heat for this but the simple fact is that it's just not that funny or as clever as it should be. Will you have a good ...Read More
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