Sorry sequel.

Rating: 4/10 (11 June 2011)

This dead drunk follow-up to the oft hilarious original is a shameless cash grab. Other than a change in locale the "wolf pack" like the audience, falls for the same stunts as in the first except we're prepared making the material stale and our modern day stooges repetitive bores. Oh, there's a cigarette smoking monkey, a transsexual encounter and Mike Tyson along to sing poorly but what it depends on most, the shock value for laughs is reheated leftovers from the original.
Stu is getting married in Thailand and hopes to avoid the Vegas debacle of two years earlier. Pressured into inviting the socially inept Alan (Zach Galifinakis) along disasters await in the wings. It's bad enough the father of the bride dislikes Stu to begin with but wait til obnoxious Alan adds his two cents.
With big box office assured in the title alone Hangover 2 is inferior every way. Director Todd Phillips takes few chances using the same convoluted recipe of hallucination and black out from the first but with the audience prepared for it most of the humor lands with a heavy thud.
Zach Galinafikis was clearly the centerpiece and biggest contributer to the success of the first film but here he's lost the edge and freshness and his five minutes ( most get fifteen ) seem to be over. As Stu and Phil Bradley Cooper and Stan Helms merely recite what they did in the first. Only Ken Jeong as Mr. Chow lives up to the originals audacity and energy but with the rest of the cast looking winded and ineffective Hangover 2 remains too sober for its own good.