Three Times Drunk.

Rating: 4/10 (16 June 2015)

The Hangover, Part 3 (2013): Dir: Todd Phillips / Cast: Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Ken Jeong, John Goodman: While an improvement over the dreadful Hangover, Part 2, that is about its only testament. This begins with an effective prison escape by Mr. Chow who still has connections with the gullible Alan. Alan has just caused a major traffic accident involving a giraffe in a joke that is of many poor taste. Then his father has a heart attack. After the funeral his friends and family decide that Alan needs intervention so he is packed away with Doug, Phil and Stu for a road trip that is halted when they are driven off the road. Doug is taken hostage while the others are tasked with retrieving gold bars from Mr. Chow that was stolen from them. This becomes one big rat race but what's truly off is the total lack of laughs. Director Todd Phillips created a comic masterpiece with the original but all he accomplishes here is avoiding the duplication of the sequel. The principal actors elevate beyond the sequel. Zach Galifianakis as Alan goes through much growth particularly in a potential relationship and his dealing with Mr. Chow. Bradley Cooper and Ed Helms also step up in the hunt for Chow. Ken Jeong is also superb as Chow whose lifestyle is reckless and maddening. However John Goodman is a sad waste as a gangster referenced in the original film and he likely wishes that he was in that film as oppose to this one. This is a major step up from the first sequel but otherwise the original is far more clever and hilarious. Now it is time to sober up and move on to better things. Score: 4 ½ / 10