The Ultimate Hangover
You know you have had a good night when you wake up the next morning with a tiger, a chicken and a baby in your room, not remembering what happened the night before. The Hangover is a classic bachelor’s party gone wrong, based on the saying, “what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas”.
Drugs, alcohol, strippers, tomfoolery and bodily harm, The Hangover follows four very different men wanting a good night in Vegas. The soon-to-be groom Doug (Justin Bartha) is your typical responsible man, but his biggest mistake is bringing his future brother in law Alan (Zach Galifianakis) to his bachelor’s party. A bit of a misanthropic, Alan hasn’t had any close friends for as long a he can remember. So he was very flattered when Doug invited him to his bachelor party. Along for the ride were party animal Phil (Bradley Cooper), a school teacher who is sick of his married life and craves the wild antics he enjoyed as a youth, and Stu (Ed Helms), a coward who freaks out at everything he knows his girlfriend wouldn’t approve.
To express his gratitude, Alan brought along a bottle of Jager and everyone had a few shots. What they didn’t know is Alan had mixed what he thought was ecstacy into the drinks, which turned out to be date rape drugs. When the guys woke up the next day, they don’t remember anything. In the room is a tiger, a chicken and a baby, and their bestfriend Doug is missing.
The three best friends thus set on a quest to track what happened the night before in the hope of finding their bestfriend Doug. This is the part where it gets interesting. To top the icing on the cake, Mike Tyson made
a cameo appearance belting Phil Collin’s classic, “In the Air Tonight”. Director, Todd Phillips, who also directed Old School and Road Trip knows what he looks for in his male casts and if anything, he picked the perfect male cast in this movie. Zach Galifianakis absolutely stole the show with his witty personality dancing and floating through the scenes.
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