good effort, but same stuff...different setting.!?!

Rating: 5/10 (30 May 2011)

Well where to start, I just saw 'The hangover part 2', which I have been looking forward to since I first heard it was being made(which was a no brainer considering the success of the first). So I went into this expecting a lot I guess, as the first blew me away with laughs and a certain level of originality. But that was the completely wrong way to go into this film!. I mean to put it bluntly, Its very much "worked in the first, will work in the 2nd", even though some aspects of this idea from the director/co-writer Todd Philips works, you just don't have that wow factor as in the first!. So even though there is a lot of the same in this, you still laugh due to the brilliant chemistry these characters have together, and how they deal with each crazy, ridiculously (funny at times) situation they fall into. For me its Zach Galifanakis who makes it work, His silly out-of-this-world one liners and comments about whats happening, and his reaction to each situation our boys find themselves in. I know most people think he is like marmit.....but if you get this kind of humour, it works!. As for the other two leads,its the same effort as the first film,but still works and keeps the film afloat, just a shame the rest of the film with the same efforts does'nt. As the credits roll...its the same set up....Guys have few drinks...Guys wake up with serious hangover....guys find they have lost someone in their group(this time Teddy, Stu's partner's little brother).......guys try to remember what happened by back tracking the events of the messy night which there cant remember.....even the ending is more or less what happened in the first. But besides all this, it still has that tinkle most comedies lack these days, you really like the character's. And it does have a few shocks-laughs that you will either make you want to be sick or turn away! 'There's a reason they call it Bankok sweetheart'.
Its worth watching if you loved the first, just try to really not expect better, at times it really shines, its just a shame those times are like a giant slice of deja vu .