Chow's the only saving grace

Rating: 6/10 (13 August 2013)

I heard both positive and negative reviews for this movie, and decided to give it a watch. Here's what I think -
Is the movie funny? Yes
Is the movie funny as Hell? No
This time around the directors wanted to reap the popularity of Mr. Chow (Ken Jeong)and decided to give him a larger than life role. To tell you the truth, Chow doesn't fail you. Ken Jeong gives the best performance till date in a Hangover movie. However, the key problem is this movie seems a lot focused on Chow and not on Wolf pack. If you have seen the movie, think of it in this way -- How many scenes can you remember from the movie that weren't funny solely because of Chow. Okay so you found few. Now remove all the scenes that were funny for Alan's solo act. Yup, now you can count them on fingers.
I was okay with the plot and all the dark humor. In fact, I liked this new plot. However, what I wanted was -- Wolf Pack takes a lead and Chow be in backseat. Somehow, many (not all)would be feel that this movie is more of a spin off of Hangover movies with Chow taking the lead. I'm not saying that this is solely a Chow movie. What I'm saying is whenever Chow appears, he seems to take the lead and he appears a lot!
On a bright side, the movie manages to string together events of all the three movies (again via Chow)! But the title doesn't seem appropriate as there was hardly any hangover (save for the awesome end credits scene!)
The movie was quite funny, but the wolf pack was hardly funny anymore. If you remove Chow, the movie wouldn't be half as amusing. And thats a disgrace to the Wolf-pack. May be if this was an individual movie (not from Hangover franchise), I'd have liked it a little more.