Super Gross, but Decent Comedy

Rating: 6/10 (5 July 2009)

This movie makes "Freddy got Fingered" look like a Sunday school recital. This flick is sick to the nines. I was surprised they let this movie slide with just an R rating; there were times I thought an NC-17 would have been more suitable. DO NOT watch this with anybody under 18! I really mean that for this particular movie.
As far as the content goes, I thought the filmmakers were extraordinarily creative, making the "hangover" the main plot and having the audience piece together the "wild night" through the dialogue presented throughout the movie. This is a "Pulp Fiction"-esquire approach I very much appreciated as unique and stylish for a raunchy comedy. The actors are decent, but the standout was the "fat Jesus" Alan, who does his damndest to be a bizarre, naive simpleton/man-child. He seemed to have taken his cues from Chris Elliot's "Chris Peterson" on "Get A Life", Reverend Jim Ignatowsky from "Taxi", and a little bit of Kelly Bundy. I'm all for innocent, mondo bizarro men-children in comedy movies, though Alan seemed a little bit mean-spirited compared to Chris Peterson. He looked an awful lot like Torgo from "Manos: The Hands of Fate", and seemed just as perverted! He's the highlight of the film, though he's not quite as good as Chris Elliot or Pee-Wee Herman playing the weird man-child character.
Honestly, the best stuff was in the previews; the Mike Tyson cameo was a bit of a letdown. Heather Graham plays a standard-issue "whore with a heart of gold" that we've seen a bazillion times. The Asian gangster was just weird. I thought the kids tazing our intrepid heroes was not that funny. Overall, a decent comedy with a notable man-child character, but it's a far cry from "Cabin Boy." Wait for the DVD to come out, and just rent it for a few days. Don't bother buying this sucker.