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Reviews Counted:194
Fresh:151
Rotten:43
Average Rating:6.7/10
Consensus: With a clever script and hilarious interplay among the cast, The Hangover nails just the right tone of raunchy humor, and the non-stop laughs overshadow any flaw.
Theatrical Release:12-06-2009
Synopsis: From "Old School" director Todd Phillips comes a comedy about a bachelor party gone very, very wrong. Two days before his wedding, Doug (JUSTIN BARTHA) drives to Las Vegas with his best buddies... [More]
Starring: Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Justin Bartha
Director: Todd Phillips
The director and his screenwriters have come up with the funniest film to appear in ages. It avoids the predictable crudity and silly laddishness (well, almost) you’d expect, and delights with zinging one-liners and charming performances.
The director, harnessing the talents of a relatively unknown cast, creates a genuine minor classic of the genre.
This is an above par effort, excellently played and just naughty enough to be thought daring as well as amusingly spiteful.
The cast is personable, the photography is attractive, the script is cleverly constructed and mildly amusing but there is nothing here that screams comedy classic.
An intriguing, time-hopping set-up is wasted on obnoxious characters, celebrity cameos and crass attempts at humour.
Top CriticConsistently funny, The Hangover proves you don't need a big-name Hollywood cast to get big laughs. Destined to appeal to the lads everywhere, that the film doesn't only resort to gross-out gags means female audiences should give it a go.
Top CriticThe lads duly lurch from one bewildering crisis to another.
Top CriticIt turns out to be every bit as crass, offensive and incorrect as you'd expect, but it's also - gulp! - really very funny an awful lot of the time, as well as bizarrely gripping.
Top CriticEverything works here; the characters are funny, the set-ups are funny, the lines are funny.
The Hangover amounts to a gut-bustingly funny boy's own comedy.
Debauched, depraved and very, very funny.
The cracking script - a veritable treasure trove of smart one-liners - and beautifully-worked setpieces make this one of the most enjoyable comedies of the year.
Succeeding equally well as rowdy romp, what-happened mystery and man-crush comedy, /The Hangover/ is an unexpected winner.
With a great soundtrack and script so sharp you might need to take plasters into the cinemas with you because you might come out with cuts… this is this summer’s must see comedy.
Rude, crude and defiantly male, it's the ultimate phallocentric antidote to Sex And The City, and easily the funniest American comedy of the year.
Lewd, crude and exceptionally rude, the gags come thick and fast.
A devilishly smart comedy gem that manages to blend the raunchy and the rowdy with some deliciously left-field humour.
A furiously paced, inventive and flat-out hilarious take on a tried-and-tested formula. An exemplary bromantic comedy that doesn’t sacrifice heart in pursuit of laughs, maintaining plenty of the former and a superabundance of the latter.
Top CriticThe Hangover serves up a steady stream of big, dumb laughs, but you may feel a gnawing sense of guilt right afterwards.
Top CriticRude, crude and downright distasteful - this film is brilliant.
December 01, 2009:
Todd Phillips Talks The Hangover 2 
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