A great remake

Rating: Null/10 (4 August 2011)

The Wolfpack is back! And are they ever!! Comedy sequels make it tough to get back to the level of excitement you remember from the first, when it was new and uncharted. If it's great, you never look down at your watch until it's over; and then you want an hour more! You want to view it again to get all of the lines you may have missed. The first Hangover did that to me. When the second one was announced I had the anticipation of a little kid and the great fear that it would ruin everything the first one did.
Hangover 2 brought the Pack, Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms), Alan (Zach Galifianakis) and Doug (Justin Bartha) to the exotic Bangkok, Thailand for Stu's nuptials. Without giving away any of the story, director Todd Phillips worked off of the cast's chemistry and expanded upon it. You can tell in the movie that there are several points of improvisation. Phillips uses the full screen and back shots to entertain you, so pay attention. For a comedy, the cinematography was very well done and timely. Really, if you don't pay attention to the full screen, you will miss a lot in this movie. With the scene changes and camera angles, you can tell that this is not a low budget comedy thrown together to appease the demand for another Hangover. This movie is extremely crude and not something I am watching with my mother. Get ready for HUGE shock factor.
I would say the movie is more of remake with changes than a sequel; but when you have a great comedy isn't that what you are trying to get out of the final product? This movie is never going to get an Oscar, but it should get an MTV Movie Award. By far the funniest movie of the year and very well done. I watched it sober and was laughing so hard I had tears in my eyes. Can't wait to see it again!
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