Our Doug ain't black

Rating: 9/10 (18 August 2009)

Someone told me not that long ago that the 2003 film Old School was the f****** bomb. And Todd Phillips' Old School is moderately a winner for IMDb users, I saw it and damn, I liked better the other two comedies of its director Todd Phillips that I had seen (Starsky & Hutch and School for Scoundrels) which, by the way, are usually paned by IMDb users (not to mention by professional critics, especially Phillip's 2006 remake of a British 1960 picture). Now, this year Phillips came with The Hangover, it had its US theatrical release a couple of months ago, on 5 June 2009 to be exact, and boy is it a winner for users and professional critics (plus a great money maker), for everything I had to see The Hangover, last Friday finally arrived to my city and boy did I laughed a couple of days ago, last Sunday to be exact, at the theater.
If you are one of those angry IMDb's top 250 buffs (I'm not a really big follower and I think the other times I have commented about the top 250 were when Nolan's Dark Knight reached the first position and when WALL*E had a place in the top 10) that are always like "good film, but why is it part of the awesome top 250?" or like "why this film is not in the top?" you may be wondering if this film deserves its place in the list of 250 best films for the users (right now it is the #191), I can say to those that who knows, who cares, The Hangover is a film that, in the way Old School didn't, lived up to all the praise and, like I already said, I really laughed with the time in Las Vegas of Phil (Bradley Cooper), Doug (Justin Bartha), Stu (Ed Helmskind of looks like McLovin) and Alan (Zach Galifianakis).
And as is tradition these folks went to Las Vegas for Doug's bachelor party, for us is not really a problem the fact that we went to Las Vegas with our main characters and basically missed the party time, certainly not a problem since for us there's fun before and after the crazy party time but for our main characters (I add, Doug will get married with Alan's sister Tracy, played by Sasha Barrese, and Doug's best friends are Stu and Phil) is a problem but no they didn't went to Las Vegas and missed completely of the crazy fun time, actually and mostly just apparently they had a really f****** crazy night and that "apparently" is actually the big problem since our characters simply do not remember a single thing the morning after the big Vegas night, not to mention that Doug ain't around. Of course the guy who may be not be as funny as the others (Bartha) is nowhere to be seen almost the entire film, it's a hangover only with the funny guys and certainly not the usual hangover. They, Stu, Phil and Alan, wake up not remembering a thing and just wondering why a tiger and a baby are in their suite and stuff, it's all a mystery, they must find Doug but pretty much every time there's a little peace after putting some pieces together a damn big crazy thing comes to make more f****** unbelievable their secret Vegas anecdote (sure they met Mike Tyson, and his tiger, but) and certainly more f****** funny! Heather Graham, Ken Jeong, Mike Tyson, Mike Epps, hell even when Bartha, the may not be as funny as the other main guys, returns or better said is found he is really hilarious! Red Doug!