Some good surprising laughs

Rating: 7/10 (6 January 2010)

Another nerds' comedy, another bachelor party in Las Vegas movie,yes, but there are several laugh out loud moments, which carry you over the gross or unfunny draggy parts - and not many comedies of recent times can say that! The set up is different - a conceit that you are looking at the present as three guys try and remember - in time - where the misplaced groom is, having taken rufies by mistake and being unable to recall a thing about a bachelor party that went completely out of line. The acting is not smug or egotistical, eg not like those endlessly unfunny Ferrell, Rogen etc movies, the plot does not go too far out of reality, and the minor characters are not star vehicles for a drop in bit part. It rolls along, but some bits do not work - cue overplayed gay Chinaman, grotesque joke about masturbation with a baby, and leads to a happy ending all round. Heather Graham as a stripper is not given enough to do - did we see more in the cinema, because I saw this on a sanitised Virgin aeroplane? But at $277M gross for an R-rated movie, you have to see it!!!!!