The hangover - 2009

It’s fun, yes, it’s a funny crazy movie, but maybe it’s more fun for guys than for gals… come on, really? Is it really this what men dream of, what they consider having-fun? Drinking too much, a lot of strippers or whatnot, drugs… for real? This is so so sad, that they think the only way to have fun is to get drunk or use drugs - basically change or annul themselves - and pay for women’s company :-/

There’s Bradley Cooper in it, which somehow saves it I think. I don’t particularly like the man, no, but he’s good and very very handsome. 

The story: Doug (Justin Bartha) is about to get married to rich Tracy; his bachelor party is to be in Las Vegas with his soon-to-be brother-in-law Alan (Zach Galifianakis) and his friends Phil (Cooper) and Stu (Ed Helms). Alan is a complete idiot, and Stu plays the responsible, upright guy but he keeps lying to his girlfriend Melissa (Rachel Harris). She’s horrible to him, and has already cheated on him once, and yet he stays with her for no reasonable reason (he never speaks of love) and keeps lying to her to avoid a fight, and still plans to propose to her! Phil is a teacher and took the kids money for their trip to Vegas :-/

Phil keeps telling him that she’s a slut and he should get rid of her, but honestly he doesn’t act better with him, come on, he uses him shamelessly spending his money and treating him badly, saying to everyone that he’s not a real doctor because he’s only a dentist :-/

They get to Vegas and rent a suite that costs 4000$ a night (Stu pays for everybody of course), then they go to the roof and Alan proposes a toast (with a very embarrassing speech:-/)

Next morning they wake up in their room: it’s a real mess everywhere, there’s a girl sneaking out without waking them up, there’s a chicken, a tiger in the bathroom, Alan is naked (and Phil has to tell him three times to put some pants on), there’s a baby in the closet (and schoolteacher Phil suggests leaving him there since he’s not their child), and Stu is missing a tooth. From what Alan says I can only assume that he isn’t allowed near schools full of children because he once took one at a fast-food…

Doug is missing, they have no idea where’s Doug’s soon-to-be father-in-law’s mercedes is but they have a police car instead. They try retracing their steps to find out where Doug is because they can’t remember a single thing of the night before. They go to a hospital because there is a hospital band on Phil’s wrist, and the doctor tells them that they had just been to a wedding, and also that they had been drugged. They go to the chapel and find out that Stu got married! They go to Jade’s house and she’s the mother of the baby, and of course has Stu’s precious ring on her finger ( I think nothing explains Alan’s character like his line “I didn’t know they gave out rings at the Holocaust” because is shows how out of this world he is).

They almost get arrested for stealing a police car, but when Phil points out that they might be embarrassed by that too, they use them for a demonstration for children instead, encouraging the children to use a taser on them. They get their mercedes back and surprisingly enough it’s still in perfect conditions (not for long, anyway). For a moment they think that the noise coming from the trunk might be Doug but instead when they open it a naked Chinese man (Ken Jeong, always funny) jumps out and starts beating them up :lol: At this point Alan confesses that he put drugs into their drink when they were on the roof…

They go back to their room to find Mike Tyson in there, not too happy that they stole his tiger. He knocks Alan out and orders them to bring back the tiger. They put drugs in a steak (how much did he buy??) to get the tiger to sleep. They manage to bring her to the car but the tiger wakes up while they are still on the road, driving. It scratches Phil’s neck (still sexy) and they jump out of the car scared to death. They push the car all the way to Tyson’s house (while the tiger passes the time eating the car seats). While they notice that the car is rather ruined only on the inside, a car crashes theirs: The Chinese man Chow, now fully dressed and with two men to back him up says they played together at the casino but then they stole his 80.000$ and he says that they’ll never see their friend Doug if they don’t give it back. They search everywhere in the room but can’t find the money so they go to the casino. Alan can count the cards and Jade is there to help them: they win enough money to make the trade, only to find out that it’s not their Doug, it’s another Doug, the one that sold Alan the drugs (making a mistake because Alan wanted ecstasy). Only now, 5 hours away from the wedding, Phil calls Tracy to tell her the whole truth, but at that moment Stu solves the mystery. During the night they brought Doug to the roof on his mattress, and then forgot him there. The poor man has been up there for a full day and a night, and is all red but alive. 

The wedding is now 3 1/2 hours away: Jade gives the ring back to Stu (telling him he pulled out his own tooth for a bet, to prove he could do it) and he asks her out for the next week, and they drive home; a tuxedo-rent company ( “the tux shop”) throws two packages from their van without stopping the car, so they get dressed in the car. They arrive very late but they get there and Doug gets married! Phil reunites with his wife and son, Stu dumps Melissa, and Alan finds their camera with a lot of pictures from that night. During the credits we see the pictures: a lot of scenes with girls mostly, and their various adventures (with the tiger, with Chow..). Still no clue as to why Phil ended up in a hospital or why there was a chicken in their room though. 

ITA una notte da leoni ( mattina coglioni, never so true as in this case here….)