Funny? Yep. Hilarious? Not really...

Rating: 6/10 (24 November 2009)

Now first let me get one thing straight, I didn't see this film at the theatres based on it's trailers. It didn't look that funny and I don't usually bother seeing comedies on the big screen as i feel they come across just as well on DVD as they are not riddled with special effects etc.
But I was highly recommended this film from several different people who all said it was much funnier than they had expected and that the trailers didn't do the film any justice. One friend of mine even said the film was one of the funniest films they had ever seen!!!
So as soon as it was released on DVD, i decided to check it out myself and make up my own decision.
Now by all means, "The Hangover" is a fairly descent comedy. It has some funny scenes. But that being said, it wasn't THAT funny! The laughs were there but to me they were just brief chuckles and a few little laughs. I never once found myself out of breath from laughing so hard as i have in other rescent comedies such as "Role Models" and "Forgetting Sarah Marshall".
I know I shouldn't compare "The hangover" to those films but those comedies are the ones I find hilarious.
I guess Hangover just felt a little predictable and the jokes were so forced in parts and obviously set up like, here's a scene, here's some dialogue and here's the punch line!.......ha ha?
Plus that Asian dude who played the criminal in the film just wasn't funny at all! I haven't seen such terrible acting since Nicolas Cage's un-intentionally comedic performance in "the Wickerman" remake!
I really did try hard to enjoy this film and it is a good film....it's just not great and overly original in my opinion.
Don't believe the hype, that's all.