Much, much better than the first one

Rating: 9/10 (31 May 2011)

After watching the first Hangover and not being able to stop thinking of it as the most overrated comedy movie of all time, my expectations for The Hangover 2 were low. In fact, at some points I vowed not to go and see it, afraid I might just be wasting my money. However, with all my closest friends going to see it as a group as part of a night out, I couldn't help myself and decided to watch the movie.
As you can guess my expectations were fairly low - "I just hope it's better than the first one... but than again, anything is". From the very beginning it became obvious that the whole storyline is basically a copy of the storyline from the first Hangover, with a few changes. From the very beginning though, I seemed to be the person laughing the most. After a horrible, lazy performance in the first one, Zach Galifianakis excelled himself in The Hangover Part 2 - 'My uncle Roger once saw an albino polar bear', or 'Asiatic people', as well as pretty much every single other line of his in the movie are fulfilled with hilarity and amusement. The whole idea of Zach, or Alan, hating Teddy from the moment he met him was also incredibly funny.
That being said, the other characters - Phil and Stu, played excellently by Bradley Cooper and Ed Helms, are also fantastically hilarious. Justin Bartha's Doug character is rarely seen in the movie which is a tad disappointing as it seems that adding him to the group would make the movie even funnier.
There is hardly anything that I could complain about when it comes to The Hangover Part II. The movie does what a comedy should - it makes you laugh.