Time to sober up, for this film is no longer a hangover.

Rating: 6/10 (3 June 2013)

While this film still has the same title, it's not the hangover formula that people love or hate. This one is a little bit more nausea. Two years after the events at Bangkok, Leslie Chow (Ken Jeong) escape out of jail and now it's the job for the Wolfpack members: Alan Garner (Zach Galifianakis), Stu Price (Ed Helms) and Phil Wenneck (Bradley Cooper) to find him or Doug Billings (Justin Bartha) will get murder by the ruthless drug mob leader Marshall (John Goodman) wanting Chow. The movie feels less than a comedy, and more of a dark humor crime drama. I know director Todd Phillip took a lot of criticize for 2011's The Hangover Part II for recycling the same plot as 2009's The Hangover. Now he is getting criticize for delivers a film so different from the first two, which in my opinion, I'm pretty OK, with, but I think he forgot to add more humor to it. I didn't see much people laughing in the theater at any of the jokes. I don't think a lot of people were laughing at all the animal deaths in the film such as giraffe, the chickens, or the dogs. There was an even a jab at PETA. The point is, the killing of animals just kills the mood - it's mean spirited. I know it's weird in a way that people care more about a dog dying in a film, than a guy getting shot in the film, but in my opinion, the animal killing joke was just awful. Still, I was kinda depressed that two of the original characters met their maker in the film. The movie pretty much suck the fun out of the room, by having endless amount of death and violence on the screen. I would have thought the film would be funnier since giving more screen time to both Alan and Chow, but it wasn't. Most of the humor in the film was dumb man-child humor or crude jokes. Both of them were just annoying to the point that I stop caring about what happen to him. I just want them to go away for good. I would have like more smart jokes. Even if it had smart jokes, it was still missing something. I don't know, maybe like 'an actual hangover'. I do think the movie strayed too far from the formula of the original Hangover. I do have to say, the post-credit sequence does deliver that for the fans, but it might have been too short and too late. Having them return to Las Vegas was pretty awesome and work as a nostalgia feeling for long term fans of the comedy series. It would be fun to have more of that, with another other original characters returning such as Officer Franklin (Rob Riggles) or Mike Tyson. At less, they got Heather Graham to reprised her role as Jade the Stripper and Mike Epps as 'Black Doug' even if they are the two characters in the original film, I didn't want. News character like Cassie (Melissa McCarthy) and Marshall had too short of a screen time to make the film any funnier. I know Melissa McCarthy and John Goodman could have milk more into their scenes. I was just waiting for Walter from 1998's the Big Lebowski to come out. Now, that's how you make a funny dark comedy, the Big Lebowski, not this. I think the best thing about this movie is 'Hurt' by Nine Inch Nails. I just wish, it wasn't use for humor. It was awkward to hear the song, butcher like that. It kinda turn me off of the movie, and made me want to listen to good music instead. Absolutely beautiful cinematography in the film. Overall: It was an entertaining movie. There seem to be a lot of scenes cut out that makes me wonder what happen. What happen to the storyline that involves the boys rescuing Alan from a mental hospital? How on earth did Stu get the drugs out of the pharmacy? As for this movie being the end of the Hangover series. I doubt it, if there is money to be made. The studio will make another one for sure. I don't see this series ending anything soon, but if this is the end. Thank God. It's over. One less mindless sequel comedy, I have to review.