One of the worst movies I've seen in years

Rating: 1/10 (27 June 2011)

Full disclosure: I walked out of the movie before it was over. I just couldn't take it. I can tolerate, and sometimes laugh loudly, at black humor, gross humor, ridiculous situations. Even some things that might seem cruel if they are done in a certain way (e.g., some Monty Python skits, and films like "Dr. Strangelove"). But this was one of the most offensive movies I've ever seen. I got upset thinking that I'd paid to see it, was perplexed at the laughs of others in the theater audience (mainly junior high and high school-age kids; this was in Brazil and age restrictions weren't enforced), and then finally decided life was too short.
There are certainly many movies were someone being rude and obnoxious, even in a mean-spirited way, is supposed to be funny. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't . No big deal. But this film was an unrelenting series of gags based on people being obnoxious and/or stupid. Non-stop. The character Alan, and Stu's father-in-law-to-be, are both so dumb and offensive that I really could not see anyone wanting to be with either one. Stu's character struck me as the most realistic (as in people I've met), but finally he becomes as big an idiot as everyone else (until the predictable ending—which I read about).
Writer/director Todd Phillips throws in some very unoriginal gags (e.g., a trained monkey—as in the first film—plus one of the characters having sex with a Thai man he thought was a woman, which is not shown but described in graphic detail). Based on this film, I think Phillips could probably have made a decent action thriller—one that made Thailand look equally as bad as this one—but that would not have achieved his objective, which was to duplicate the success of "Hangover I."