Funny but not Hangover 1 Hilarious

Rating: 6/10 (1 June 2013)

I think Hangover 1 was a comedy game-changer. Two and, now, three, just don't match it, there's no denying it. Whilst three was an adequate comedy, with quite a few laughs, in jokes and addenda to the first and second films, it's just missing something. I don't know what. The final Wolfpack trilogy sees the gang back together: Phil, Stu, Alan and Doug (Cooper, Helms, Galifianakis and Bartha respectively) pitting their wits against Chow (Jeong) and also a new character played by John Goodman.
The gang are back in Vegas but also travel to Mexico, there's lots of high jinx, car crashes, crazy animal scenes, embarrassing scenarios and as always credit extras. Anyone who leaves straight away after the film misses the climax as with all of the trilogy. It's an entertaining film, well worth the view, and not regrettable by a long shot but it's missing something that would make it a great comedy rather than a good one. Perhaps it's that the first one had the element of surprise and it was so different. Cooper, again, is the star, the alpha wolf in the pack, and is more or less the straight man across from all the back and forth of Alan and Stu. Chow of course is off his head insane and he Jeong does that so well, but he's not as freaky as he was in the first two. Not so offensive, but still not vanilla, rude, crude and silly it's a giggle but it is not an exaggeration to say that it seems the writers have run out of laughs and ideas.
Would recommend it, but go in knowing it's not as good as the first one. Don't have your hopes too high and you'll come out pleasantly surprised. Watch to the end.