Director: Todd Phillips
Year: 2009
Country: US
Language: English
Three buddies wake up from a bachelor party in Las Vegas, with no memory of the previous night and the bachelor missing. They make their way around the city in order to find their friend before his wedding.
The Hangover is really just another entry into the "one crazy night" genre, it's Superbad but made for a different demographic. The crazy characters do absolutely anything together- ranging from self-dentistry to stealing Mike Tyson's tiger- and tread the line between "boys will be boys" and "that guy might be a sociopath". It's an immense amount of fun, making us wish we were along for the ride but at the same time it's clear we would never be friends with these people. This is the story drunk idiots wish they could tell, but sadly can't.
One aspect I didn't like about The Hangover was the treatment of women. This movie is a "boys only" club where women are treated as fun vampires; nags, who are kept from the adventure in order to take care of their children. Perhaps a female might not have been suitable in a movie about male bonding, but the concept surely could have been (no pun intended) broader in vision. Movies like this try to sell us on the idea that "real men secretly fear their wives" and that is nonsense. Women can be just as funny and outrageous, Bridesmaids proves this
Despite the fact that The Hangover is a one sex/gender show, I found the film rather enjoyable. While it never threw me into a fit of laughter, I could certainly enjoy the comedy and the messy situation the guys were in. How would they find the bachelor? Where was he? It was a good bit of mystery that kept me guessing. 3/5
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