The Hangover

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The movie opens to a well-manicured woman making frantic and desperate calls to her fiancee. Bradley Cooper answers and we are mid-story with Doug's buddies stuck in the middle of the desert 5 hours before the wedding with no sign of Doug. This can only be a promising and accurate opening to the most sucessful bromance comedy of the year.

Eseential to the core of the movie is the cliche, yet necessary characters that add to the hilarity of the comic relief. Doug is the cliche tall, dark, handsome man engaged to his beautiful fiancee. He picks up his three best buddies to accompany him on his bachelor party. Phil, the token playboy and the male version of Cameron Diaz in Bad Teacher, Stu a typical, Mr. Boring university grad who is a successful dentist; and Alan, Doug's brother in law a hilarious, socially inept weirdo.

These three ordinary men engage in the party of their lives, and the hangover scene is hilariously unfathomable. Similar to a crime scene location, there are strange, funny, and ridiculous clues of what might have happened the night before, but no story and no Doug. And hence the actual story of the Hangover begins...

The Hangover is a comedic action movie, and true  entertainment with a capital E. Think of Clue on heroin, (or rufi's). Just in case any of the scenes seem too ridiculous to be true, the movie is based on a true story. A friend of the producer was a groom who went to Vegas for his bachelor party, blacked out and ended up with a huge stripper bill. Although the film was paraded as the official "guy/bromance" movie of the year, I say that is hilarious, believable and can entertaining for a wide audience. I place it in the Best Comedy Category.


8/10
Best Comedy - :)