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• Dude, where is my car? — for The Hangover
  Written by Vitar on 16.01.2010

  The Hangover: Four guys who celebrate a Bachelors party in Las Vegas. This concept can easily result in a movie full of clichés. But The Hangover surprises with good and funny dialoges, strong characters and nice camera work.

  Three of the four guys wake up after the Bachelors party with a massive hangover and can’t find the 'groom'. In the search for their friend the three (Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis) are having difficulties to remember something about the night before. A tiger in the bathroom, baby in the closet, missing tooth are some things that the friends try to explain. Without giving any clues for people that didn’t watch the movie yet: it was a hell-of-a-night!

  You could think that all the absurd happenings could result in hackneyed jokes all the time. Actually the most jokes arrive at exactly the right time. After the friends of course find the 'groom' (Justin Bartha) they really need to rush home to make sure the wedding can start. When the wedding comes to an end the friend watch (very drunk) pictures on the digital camera together which ends this great funny movie in style.

  Besides the movie itself, the extra's on the dvd are very funny as well. The deleted scenes result in hard laughs, guaranteed!

• No cure needed for this Hangover — for The Hangover
  Written by cosmobrown on 18.06.2009

  Reading the plot synopsis for The Hangover, you would be forgiven if you uttered a huge "who cares?" yawn. The tale of a bunch of friend's drunken debauchery over a weekend in Las Vegas has been done to death, films like Swingers and Very Bad Things leaping immediatly to mind. So Todd Phillip's film would need to be something a little different to poke it's head above the seething mass of similar films. Luckily, it is. After a slightly hit-and-miss set up, The Hangover decides to concentrate on what happens after the friends wake up from a night of heavy drinking, gambling and mischief. They awake to find one of the gang (the groom-to-be) missing, a baby in the closet, Mike Tyson's tiger in the bathroom and their hotel suite looks like a warzone. From there, they have to try to retrace their steps and piece together the catastrophic events of the previous night, and find their friend. This structure is a lot funnier than simply showing us what happened, as they get further and further into trouble as the pieces of the jigsaw slot into place. The film works due to 3 great lead performances from Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis (rememeber that name, he could be huge). They have great chemistry and comic timing, and you actually care about them and their predicament. Which doesn't stop us from laughing as their situation becomes more severe and embarassing but, push comes to shove, we wish them well. There are plenty of laugh-out-loud moments, some utterly unbelievable plot twists, some predicatable ones, but it's never less than funny. 90 minutes spent in the company of these 4 men is time well spent. A very funny comedy, that is able to transcend it's cliched and worn subject matter and bring something new to the table. I recommend.