Thursday, 11 June 2009

The Hangover

So... four guys go on a stag night in Las Vegas and get utterly hammered.
Mayhem ensues. They wake the following morning, none of them can remember what
happened, and the groom's missing. His friends must therefore track him down
before the wedding.

So far, so "Dude, Where's My Car." It's a staggeringly unoriginal plot. If you
were to show me a 1920s silent movie with this plot, I wouldn't be at all
surprised.

The quality, then, has to be in the execution, and it's actually pretty darned
funny, really. It's pretty much an even split between black comedy and
slapstick. If you're likely to be amused by seeing a baby belted in the face
with a car door, this is certainly the movie for you. I'd say the whole film
sits on the comedy spectrum somewhere between Old School and a Kevin Smith
movie. Which I intend as a recommendation.