Fantastic comedy brilliantly made

Rating: 8/10 (13 June 2010)

The Hangover is a comedy which you can watch over and over and still find in it funny things you've never noticed before; from the opening scenes it is instantly hilarious and it is the first film in a long time that has actually made me laugh out loud.
The absurdities of the situations that the characters got in the night before cover over some of the plot loop-holes (and there are many like what happened to the guy at the wedding place who got shot and how did they know where Mike Tyson lived?). These are just a few of many things that let it down, however not enough to ruin the experience.
The Hangover has fast become one of my favourite films to watch when I'm ill it is now in the list of comedies that I enjoy to make me feel better along with Johnny English, Dude Where's My Car, Monty Python's Life Of Brian and Mike Basset: England Manager; it has become one of my five favourite comedy genre films.
The only other bad thing is that all of my other favourite comedies are much more satirical, they were made with a purpose of attacking something and getting some sort of social point across to the audience for example Life of Brian attacks the trivialities of religion and the fickleness of human nature. In The Hangover there is none of this, the narrative has no depth, granted it is very very funny, but once the jokes are taken away it is nothing at all.
The film's script and narrative are incredibly well devised so that even when there are no slapstick jokes there are so many witty things that the characters say it doesn't matter.
The Hangover is in essence everything a comedy should be; it makes the audience laugh consistently and is easy to watch and enjoy whilst offering no real depth and making no points.
8/10