Over hyped and over rated.

Rating: Null/10 (20 July 2011)

After the reaction that this film created I thought that it was about time I watched it - two years after its release. The name of the film made me believe the humour would be entirely predictable and probably a bit too crude. I was expecting to see the best comedy of the past decade because of people's amazement when I could say 'I have never seen "The Hangover' and I can now say that I don't regret my rather late viewing of the film.
I was disappointed by the film's humour, there were too few 'laugh out loud' moments and I thought that because of this the film just seemed to drag on and on. I would not call it boring, but I would certainly call it mediocre.
The acting was of a fairly decent quality, Bradley Cooper seems to have come out of nowhere, although I seem to be the only person who remembers him from "Wedding Crashers". I have never particularly liked him as an actor, partially because of his arrogant presence on the screen, and this, for me, it a problem in the film. I found the other two of the main characters to be fairly sound, and seeing Heather Graham was a breath of fresh air. It was nice to see her in a major(ish) film, her first since "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me" over ten years ago.
While the above is for the most part fairly negative, it was still a film that you could watch from start to finish while not feeling bored at its end. My particular part was a certain cameo appearance which was probably the highlight of the film, as this made the fairly crude humour to be more ridiculous and entertaining, which was definitely needed.
All in all, "The Hangover" is worth a watch, but don't expect to see the best comedy of your life, because realistically it is not better than most of the other comedies coming out at the moment.