This film is a follow-up to The Hangover I of 2009. The time setting of this film is two years after the first film in Las Vegas. Phil, Alan, Doug and Teddy travel to Thailand to see Stu get married. Stu has vowed to keep his bachelor party very low key with a subdued brunch prior to the wedding after their previous Las Vegas fiasco. It is a quiet night on the beach with beer and toasting marshmallows. In the morning, Stu, Alan and Phil wake up in a seedy apartment in Bangkok? Doug is at the resort and Teddy is missing? There is monkey with a severed finger. Alan’s heads is shaved. Stu has a tattoo on his face and they cannot remember anything? They attempt to retrace their steps through strip clubs, tattoo parlors and the place where they got the cocaine dealing monkey? It is very important that they find Teddy before the wedding!!
This doesn't seem to be as good or as funny the Hangover I film or maybe the concept has already been pushed to the limit? This film attempts to surpass The Hangover I by being cruder and more explicit than the Hangover I film. There is non-stop swearing throughout this film. Possibly, the only redeeming quality is the beautiful scenery of Thailand? 3* (This movie is OK)
102 min, Comedy directed by Todd Phillips and written by Craig Mazin, Scott Armstrong, Todd Phillips with Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Justin Bartha, Ken Jeong, Paul Giamatti, Mike Tyson, Jeffrey Tambor, Mason Lee, Jamie Chung, Sasha Barrese, Gillian Vigman, Aroon Seeboonruang, Nirut Sirichanya, Yasmin Lee, Bryan Callen.
Note: Imdb 6.4 out of 10 with 447,721 views, 35% critics, Amazon 4.5* out of 5* and 2,071 reviews, 33% with 245 critics 52% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Letterboxd 2.6* out of 5*, Metacritic 44 out of 100 with 40 critics (10 positive 22 mixed 8 negative) 5.7 out of 10 with 665 ratings (256 positive 284 mixed 125 negative), Common Sense Media S. Joanna Robledo, age 18+, 3* violence, 5* sex, 5* language, 1* consumerism 5* drinking, drugs & smoking, Dove Review 4* sex, 5* language, 2* violence, 5* drugs, 4* nudity disrespect of the police and spitting in the face of a person.
Special Note: During filming of the scene with Stu discovering the tattoo on his face, Bradley Cooper genuinely broke out into laughing. Co-Writer and Director Todd Phillips decided to keep the take in the film. Ed Helms in the role of Stu was severely sick from food poisoning when he danced in the street shirtless. After each take, Helms would assume a fetal position until it was time to film again. Development began two months before The Hangover 2009 was released. In the original script Alan played by Zach Galifianakis was meant to have his beard shaved instead of his head. Zach refused!! There is a mistake with the Delta plane shown landing in Thailand? It is an Airbus A300. Delta has never had the A330 in their fleet and the A310 was retired in the mid- 1990’s. There is also The Hangover III 2013.
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