Sequel or Remake?

Rating: 4/10 (31 May 2011)

So here's how it goes, three guys wake up in a hotel room with no recollection of the night before, with obvious signs of misdeeds, including a missing friend. Does any of this sound familiar to you genre fans? Well it should, because it is EXACTLY like the first Hangover movie. The same movie only in Bangkok/Thailand, and this time Stu is the one getting married, Doug's wife is pregnant and the bride-to-be's little brother is the one missing. This might sound like good news to some Hangover fans, but this fan was, once again, left unsatisfied.
Whatever the reason is, I just did not like this movie. I wanted so badly to love this movie, but alas, I did not. None of the actors seemed to be on their a-game either, as Ed Helms, over does it with the squeamish, wimp routine and Bradley Cooper seems like he could careless. Zach Galifianakis, who got most of the good lines, pulls them off well enough, but the writers didn't stain any muscles trying to give him anything to work with.
It's hard to say exactly what could have made this movie better. Quiet frankly I can't remember the last time I saw a sequel that was this lazy. The filmmakers even went as far as to recreate, almost to a tea, some of the scenes from the first one. Opening the movie with a phone call to Tracey. Running around on the roof looking for Teddy, mirroring running on the roof looking for Doug. The moment Stu realizes where the missing person is. . . blah blah blah – Oh and take a guess as to how the movie ends?
Overall, The Hangover Part II, is not as memorable as the first one, there aren't as many quotable lines, and Bridesmaids was a much better film. The movie earned it's R rating, but it still managed to feel safe, lazy and tired. So in end the end, I will let this week's movie slide with a 4 for sometimes making me laugh.