Move over Greg Apatow there are new slackers in town, The Hangover, the surprise 'loser' comedy hit of the year, for once not featuring the now ubiquitous and annoying fat heads and bubble perms of Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill - hence the film doing the huge box-office, one suspects. It seemed to be word-of-mouth alone that generated the box-office for this one, the cast and crew not carrying any real comedy pedigree into this movie. No one saw this one doing any big business on its cinematic release and with its unknown cast and well-trodden cliché bachelor party in Vegas/road trip topic there was little room for originality. But director Todd Phillips knows ...  Read the complete review

Vegas Baby!! Sin City, the home of stag do's hosts 4 guys for the night to end all nights celebrating Doug's forthcoming marriage. To begin with we don't see the night, we just see the toast and then we see the carnage, and it can only be described as carnage when they wake up in the morning. The best thing about it is that they don't remember a thing about the night before, must have been a good night then. Having purchased a $4200 suite to stay in they wake up to find it trashed, truly and utterly unrepairable! The credit card on file just happens to be that of the guy who's girlfriend thinks he is in Napa Valley wine tasting and has no idea that he has ...  Read the complete review

The Hangover is a Todd Phillips comedy and was one of the best film's of 2009 for me. A comedy road trip based around a guy's stag do that could so easily have resorted to American Pie-esque slapstick, but instead mixes its stupidity with some profound moments to create a film that makes you laugh, keeps you involved and that you will really want to see again. The film is based around the night after an epic Stag Night in Las Vegas as three guys wake up and try to piece together why there is a baby in their cupboard, a tiger in the bathroom of their hotel, a police car parked out front and most importantly, where the hell the wedding groom is, as they have ...  Read the complete review

When Doug Billings heads to Las Vegas with two of his friends and his fiancée's brother two days before the wedding he intends to be sensible. Within hours of arriving though the foursome set out on a drinking session of epic proportion. The morning after three of the party wake up in a trashed hotel suite to find that Doug is missing. Now they have to find their friend but as they cant remember anything of the night before it's not going to be that easy. They have to piece things together through clues and try to track Doug down but can they find him and get him back to LA in time for the wedding. I have to admit to being unsure about The Hangover. It had ...  Read the complete review

-----Basic Plot Setup----- Its Dougs wedding day is approaching and him and 3 friends are off to Las Vegas for his stag party. They wake up the next day with their hotel room trashed, a tiger in the bathroom,a baby in a cupboard, and the groom is missing. We spend the rest of the film as the 3 friends try to find the groom before the wedding starts. -----Characters----- Doug (played by Justin Bartha): Its his wedding day and he's missing, oh no! We don't see much of him during the film since we don't know where he is for most of it, and he isn't a main character despite the film kind of being about him. He is the most normal and easy to ...  Read the complete review