Totally Sober for This Masterful Comedy!

Rating: 10/10 (23 June 2015)

The Hangover (2009): Dir: Todd Phillips / Cast: Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Justin Bartha, Heather Graham: The dawn of devious excitement for a bachelor party gone wrong. Four friends travel to Las Vegas only to wake up with a tiger in the washroom, a baby in the closet, and the groom completely misplaced. They search frantically for answers leading to extremely hilarious encounters and plot turns. One of the best comedies of the year with a screenplay with endless hilarity in the exaggeration of alcohol intake. Directed by Todd Phillips who previously made such comedies as Starsky and Hutch, School for Scoundrels and Old School but this is his masterwork particularly during the closing credits when a digital camera fills in all answers. Bradley Cooper plays a school teacher and ladies man. Ed Helms is involved in a controlled relationship until this trip leaves him suddenly married and with one less tooth. Zach Galifianakis steals every scene he is in with his ignorance to good fashion and an inability to say or do the correct thing. Justin Bartha plays the misplaced groom full of promise of the glories ahead. Heather Graham is a gem as a stripper whom Helm's learns that he married during the night's events. They are in way over their heads as innocent fun becomes a road trip of consequences led on by drugs, alcohol and absolutely no recollection of any of it. Score: 10 / 10