It gets better and better ...

Rating: 7/10 (2 June 2009)

I thought that "The Hangover" started out pretty much along the same lines as your bog-standard "grooms last night in Vegas before the wedding" scenario  with the same formula of a group of lads comprising of "cool" guys and "odd-balls"  I wasn't therefore expecting too much out of the ordinary
I was pleasantly surprised however, and I thought that the extra humorous original touches and the cast (or relative unknowns used) were above the average for this type of film  and it WAS genuinely funny in places ..
Basically, an odd-ball mix of guys attend a stag do in Vegas just before the grooms wedding  events happen and the group wake up – realising that they have no recollection of the previous night and that they have "lost" the groom  a very comic "autopsy" then ensues into what happened the night before and to re-trace their steps to find out what happened  to try to get the groom to the altar on time  each time they discover a little more of what happened – they find themselves getting deeper and deeper into trouble
There was also an "interesting" cameo role played by a well-known personality that added to the humour  giving it quite a twist
The film just gets funnier as it goes along
It would also be wise to stick around to watch the credits at the end as there are some very amusing pictures of the events of the stag night – don't miss them !