Hangover film series review- critique by Sean Chandler

Hangover film series review- by Schaffrillas Productions:

Back in 2009, The Hangover is one of the most pleasant comedic surprises I’ve ever had in the theater. So today I’m going to stop and rank The Hangover trilogy from the worst to the best. Hi, my name is Shaun, and I started this channel because I was driving everyone around me crazy talking about movies way too much. If you can relate, you’re probably in the right place and consider clicking that subscribe button with that mind. Go ahead and join me down below in the comments section. Share your ranking of The Hangover trilogy. I suspect a lot of us are going to have the same movie in first place. No way. But if you’re that differing opinion that has a different movie in the first slot, let us know down below in the comments and let us know why. Also, one more thing before we get started. I did a video where I gave my top ten favorite comedies of all time. You could check that out right up here if you enjoyed this video. I want to know more comedies I enjoy. Check that out once this video is done and let’s get started.

Tied for last place is The Hangover part two.

This movie commits the classic comedy sequel, Sin, in that it immediately feels very familiar and then proceeds to just copy the original film Beat by Beat from beginning to end. Not a great plan. It just swaps out Vegas for Bangkok and a baby in a tiger for an old man and a monkey. But the big problem here is that while Bangkok is just as wild as Vegas, it’s not nearly as much fun from beginning to end. It’s trying way too hard to capture the energy of the original by getting meaner in nastier. Instead of finding something new and clever to do, it repeats the same sorts of things, just cranks up the inappropriateness. And when it’s not just rehashing a joke from the original film, it’s trying to remind us that the original film happened by referencing things in that film, in bringing characters back just out of the blue, as if the original film is an in-joke and referencing it is funny in and of itself in the degree to which this movie just kind of copies. The original is very strange. They find someone new to emasculates. Do they have Allen give another speech at an inappropriate time saying the same types of things? And by the end of the film, the messaging just gets really bizarre. In the original film, having to break up with his girlfriend was an empowering moment that paid off his character’s arc for the film, and it put him in a positive light. In this film, it tries to like pay off, tries to do that same exact beat, except here it tries to treat him having sex with a prostitute the day before his wedding as a positive. That makes him interesting.

And as if that’s an empowering moment for him, which is such a weird plot point to put inside of a movie and kind of leans into the fact that this is just kind of a meaner, nastier, grosser rehash of the original film with nothing new or clever or funny to say.

Also in last place is The Hangover Part three.

This movie commits the other ultimate comedy sequel, Sin, in that it totally forgets what the original film was all about. And it also forgets to be funny and replaces it with a bunch of stuff that nobody ever will want from a Hangover film. Not a great plan. Remember how the original film was all about the escapism of a group of guys behaving badly at a bachelor party? Well, this movie has similar escapism in that we have a dad dying mental illness and intervention, people being kidnapped, gangsters. I mean, if the entire thing that made the original so much fun was that it was all about these guys going and having these hijinx without any lasting repercussions. When you bring in mental illness as an explanation for why Alan is behaving the way he’s behaving, it just sours the entire franchise because suddenly we’re laughing at a mentally ill person. When you build in this whole conspiracy theory and intertwined gangster stuff as to why the events of the original film happened, suddenly it’s no longer like carefree escapism without repercussions. All of a sudden it’s this intertwined plot line about a crime lord that’s not nearly as much fun in. It totally misses the point of the original film. Just add to that the movie once again just isn’t very funny. The few moments that do get a chuckle and a laugh, you feel bad about it immediately afterwards because it tries to play Allen as a person with actual serious problems that aren’t something you should be laughing at. Add to that there’s an overemphasis on stunts in action and it’s just everything that you never wanted from a. Hangover movie. And they keep finding the wrong directions to take this franchise, and it ended on a note that just kind of hurts the franchise as a whole. But obviously, coming in in first place is the original film The Hangover, a movie that somehow manages to balance a group of men behaving badly while endangering a baby while still being really likable and fun characters.

It’s a movie that’s all about a wild night in Vegas that doesn’t show the wild night in Vegas. It takes this mildly relatable scenario and expands into these ridiculous, over-the-top situations that are just so much fun to watch in. The big reason for that is that with this film, it didn’t go mean spirited while going wild and crazy. The other thing that works really well in this film is the three characters themselves balance each other out really well. You have Alan, who is totally insane and clueless. You have Stu, who’s the nervous guy that needs to go a little bit wild. And then you have Bradley Cooper’s character, who’s just the cool guy that wants this escape from his normal life. So when you put them together, they each can pull something different into each one of these scenarios that they’re in and they play the situation differently. And the movie finds all the right wild, crazy places to put them. It has this mystery that you want to have solved of what happened the night before and where is their buddy. But there’s no pretenses here. It’s just about setting up fun shenanigans and they keep finding ways to go somewhere new. That’s interesting. And somehow Mike Tyson showing up and having a missing tiger and Phil Collins playing is just the perfect thing to happen in these situations. And you get to the end of it and it even kind of has like this empowering little thing for Stu of him learning to overcome, being pressured by his girlfriend and stuff like that. So it has even kind of a weird, uplifting message at the end of it. So this is just one of those films that comes out and works on pretty much every single level and was such a pleasant surprise. And unfortunately, they decided to make a couple more movies that failed on every level where this movie succeeded.

So without question, and it’s not even remotely close. And you knew that going into this video coming in in first place is the first film The Hangover. You enjoyed this video and want to know my top ten favorite comedies of all time. Check out that video right over there. Thank you so much for watching and keep talking movies too much.Sean Chandler