Unfunny... 'till the credits roll.

Rating: 4/10 (9 June 2013)

OK, this one... I don't know, maybe it's me, but I thought it was one of the most unfunny "comedy" I ever saw these last years. And it disappoints me, because the first one was so funny, and even the second one, even being a bad sequel, a little forced, seeming like a rehash of the first, and very inferior compared to the first, had it's bits. But this... I was at the theater and I was like being Mr. Ice, you know, just small giggles here and there stashed in the whole thing... I mean, is this it? Terrible!
The movie is terrible as a comedy. And it really shows, because we don't have a decent joke 'till the very end of it. It's more like an adventure film where three regular guys has to help their friend. I got myself thinking all the time, "ok, when will the jokes start popping?" But no, no... no jokes at all, no laughs. Are you kidding me?
And on top of that, the movie just seems to forget that it's a Hangover movie! There's no hangover, all the wolfpack are sober as hell, there's no marriage, and you know what? I found these changes a little riveting! Contrived, but still riveting! I really respect Todd Philips in his initiative about going to a different direction, because it tries to give you something different! But it could seem a little bit more like a comedy, that's inexcusable! And that's where the movie fails to attend your expectations. It worries so much about wrapping up and finishing this bigger story than to give you something really funny which should be concern number one! And it doesn't even work to give you a decent moral in the end. What did we learn at the end of the saga? What was accomplished? Nothing!
So the movie closes with scenes from the last two movies to show you that it really ended and you're left in the dust.
But then, when the movie ends and the credits roll... something happens! The movie suddenly remembers that it should be a Hangover movie and a COMEDY in first place and gives you the funniest sequence on the entire movie! I'm not kidding! The credits roll and in one minute we see what the movie should have been the whole time! And you laugh like crazy! I was telling my brother "c'mon man, let's go, this blewed!" and all, but then... I was laughing!! I was finally laughing at something! I want to know what happens after that extra scene! C'mon, mr. Todd Philips, show me!!
But that's it, it ends... I mean, really? When it was finally returning to the bullshit we know and love, you just decided to stop and halt the whole thing?? What a rip off!
You really wanna check this movie? I cannot recommend it, as I am so disappointed, but if you're really curious, then go! At least it still provides 100 minutes of some escapism and you can ask for someone to wake you up in the last sequence. And I beg you, if you're really seeing it, stay until the end, because it has a final reward that saves your day!
My recommendation? Wait for it to show on TV, or rent the DVD when it comes out.