I Suggest – First Day First Show ****
A couple of girls standing in front of me asked the guy at the ticket counter “What time does the hangover get over?” I quipped - “That’ll dependo on how much you’ve have had to drink”. To be honest this hangover doesn’t really get over! It lingers on for days. It’s a movie that you have to and have to tell your friends about. Though it is not a movie which your mom would approve of but it still is a laugh riot.
A bachelor’s party gone awry may not be the most original premise for a Hollywood film but with a clever script, non-stop side-splitting situations and raunchy humor, the movie comes out as one of the wittiest and craziest Hollywood flicks in a long- long time. It is a film to be enjoyed with a group of buddies who don’t mind grossly funny gags like humping a tiger, shagging a baby and breast feeding.
“What Happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas!!! Except Herpes! That shit will stay with you forever!” …. In this film, all sorts of crazy things happen the morning-after the bachelor’s party in Vegas. There’s a roaring tiger (belonging to Mike Tyson) in the bathroom, a weeping baby in a closet and a chicken on the loose in a luxury suite in Vegas. After the blackout, someone is married to a hooker and someone has a pierced belly button. Somebody has a broken tooth and somebody discovers that he was in the hospital last night. The movie is about these 3 guys who are baffled by such discoveries and collecting cues to find their friend who’s gone missing a day before he is to wed.
The Hangover does not have an Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell to rely on to pull in the crowds. Nevertheless, it has some real fine actors. Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis give extremely natural and relatable performances. There chemistry is matchless. None of the actors overshadows the other and this goes in favor of the film.
Zach Galifianakis (Alan, the nerd kind) steals the show! A. People haven’t seen much of him. B. His character is brought in as a stranger in the group of friends, being the brother of the bride. So at the onset, the audience doesn’t quite know what he is going to come up with ahead in the movie. He is absurdly weird, soft-spoken and sensitive too. The gambling sequence where he spoofs Tom Cruise from the movie Rain Man is one of the stand out scenes. The arrival to the Ceasar’s palace hotel is another hilarious dig where he sincerely asks the clerk at the reception: "Is this the real Caesars Palace? Did he Caesar actually live here?"
The Asian Gangster is another character which is remarkable. Mr. Chow laughs on everything that Allan (the fat guy) does. So basically what turns out to be funny is- one funny guy laughing in a funny manner on the other funny guy.
Another great strength of the movie is the way in which the story is told; it’s fast paced and keeps you guessing. Sometimes it thrills you. Suspense induces curiosity. The viewers are equally confused like the characters in the film and this actually makes the film funnier. Check out the puzzled (also amusing) look on the faces of the three guys when the valet brings out a police car under the hotel porch in place of their Mercedes. The humor in the movie mostly comes out of shocks and astonishments.
For me, this hangover is going to stay for quite a time! It’s one for the ages!
