That’s right Hangover II gave us a bad “There’s got to be a morning after” feeling all over.
Maybe it was the sick smoking monkey, the exploding pig or any number of full frontal transvestite hemaphrodite shots and the penal jokes to go with (and I don’t mean the corrections system). Don’t get me wrong — this is not a case of covering my eyes simply because “Ooooh, everything was in bad taste…” We thoroughly enjoyed the light, politically incorrect, at times, yes, crude bad taste of the first Hangover movie – a snorting laughing surprise from start to finish of stuff that was just bad — you know like a great bad joke. Even Mike Tyson was funny when we know he’s not. He’s bad. But hilarious.
This one not so much. We gals, deliberately chose to see Hangover II over Bridesmaids — the apparent chick-get-drunk–and-behave-badly movie which our waitress at an undisclosed margarita location figured us for. We banked on the knock-yer-socks off, take a holiday from it all silliness of the sort that Hangover, the real movie, first offered us.
Part Deux takes place in Bangkok and has now convinced me NEVER to go there despite the beautiful scenics ostensibly filmed in the Gulf of Thailand. The movie’s beautiful scenics DO include Bradley Cooper with his blue eyes and just right for a quick liaison looks. But he needs to get off this now tired franchise. I’ll go see him in another film, but don’t recommend this “phone-it-in” acting job offered by “his hotness” in Hangover Part II.
Forget the monkey and the PETA- horrifying things that monkey is made to do Did I mention the big yuks of the monkey pretending fellatio on “Chao”. Was there a plot? And the exploding pig: Why? A hundred or more fuck, fuck, fucks and fuck-you’s could not make this film great.
Where is Maureen McGovern when we need her? For those of you who conveniently forget: McGovern sang “There’s Got To Be A Morning After” in the fine 1970’s film “The Poseiden Adventure”. Check it out.
Julia Carlisle
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