Daft and funny

Rating: 8/10 (18 June 2009)

The Hangover is currently number 1 at the US box office, and it's doing well here in the UK, too.
This isn't surprising - it's a funny movie. On the eve of Doug's wedding he and his two best friends and his fiancée's brother take a stag trip to Las Vegas. All is well until the next morning when the friends wake up in their hotel suite with no memory of the previous night's events, a gap where a tooth used to be, a chicken, a tiger, a baby - oh, and no Doug. The rest of the movie tells of the increasingly desperate attempts by the friends to reconstruct what happened last night so that they can, hopefully, retrieve Doug in time to get him to his wedding.
I never believed the events of this movie for a second, but that didn't really matter: there was sufficient suspension of disbelief for the improbable narrative to work, and it was always fun to be in the company of these well fleshed out, if caricature-ish, characters.
There aren't too many belly laughs, but the humour is constant and organic - I found myself chuckling all the way through.
Special mention must go to Ken Jeong who is a deliriously effete Chinese crime tsar, and who has the most memorable on-screen entrance of any character in any movie I can remember.