Hangover 3 film review- by Mark Kermode

Full text transcript of the Hangover 3 film review:

Hangover three.

I didn’t actually put a deep sigh, no, add that to the bingo card now.

So the story is that the Wolfpack have to be reunited once again for reasons which can only be described as a financial hangover. Part two took a staggering amount of money. And the reason this time is that the Zach Galifianakis character is now off his meds. I mean, again, if you’ve seen the trailer, you’ve seen all this. He’s off his meds, he gets giraffe, the giraffe gets beheaded. And in order to get him to go to some form of, you know, life, reaffirming rehabilitation is necessary to get together the old gang because they were all in the first two movies physically.

So we talked to Tracy today and she said that the treatment facility that they found is really nice.

It’s beautiful. I checked it out online. Great reputation.

They should just save their money and send them to fat camp. Phil, why? He should lose some weight or find a woman. That’s what he needs to do. Lonely. Well, if he’s so lonely, where the two of you spend more time with him now, trust me, you don’t want that.

No, you definitely don’t want that.

Come on. He’s not that bad. I mean, what’s the worst that’s happened? The tattoo.

Yeah, the tattoo’s the worst, right?

Definitely that it was the worst nightmare. Speaking of which, you ever get tested? Excuse me? You know, because of the ink.

The one inside you. Q Yeah, no, um, so what are you doing? I’m just gathering myself, so shouldn’t you’ve gathered yourself during the clip? What is gathering yourself mean anyway? Means it means trying to think of anything constructive to say about Hangover Part three. So what happens then is that they go off to take him to the clinic and then on the way they get run off the road by John Goodman, who kidnaps the boring one and leaves behind the famous one who has a career, the really annoying one at the giraffe and the dentist who had the tattoo, which has now been removed with the best laser surgery anybody’s ever seen, presumably because of the lawsuit about the ownership of the tattoo and also gave them the, you know, the way in to make that incredibly crass joke.

So then they have to go and find Chow because he’s got the gold from way back. And if they don’t get chow, then the other guy’s going to get it.

And here’s the really interesting thing, that in the case of Hangover, which was, you know, huge hit and then hangover part two, which just basically did the whole thing, but more like cranked up louder, stupid. Across all the other words, I need to get in there, you know, lowest common denominator to give all that stuff. OK, so hang have to cranked all that up and and actually, you know, reap the rewards of it because it did it did well financially. The strange thing about Hangover Part three is that it’s almost as if the director doesn’t want to be making Hangover Part three. What he actually wants to be making is Ocean’s Eleven. He wants to be making an action movie. And there are whole sections of it in which, I mean, it is crass, dumb, stupid, boring, all the rest and staggeringly not funny. I mean, I did I have been in hangover screens before when other people have been laughing and I’ve been thinking, this is just me. But there was. It was.

The sound of tumbleweeds blowing through the screening and one of the reasons was because in cranking everything up, as Richard thought, OK, I’m just going to make an action movie.

And so this this way, I’m very boring and very on involving action plot in which they first thing they have to go they have to break into Charlie’s house, which is the whole thing, and they have to disable the alarm and then get in and then get into the thing in the basement. And then they go and then they have to go to a hotel. They obviously have to go to Vegas and they have to break into the hotel and they have to have and and then they remember that. OK, well, it’s meant to be sort of, you know, cross over the top gross out humor thing. But that seems to have taken second place to the director simply thinking, oh, well, I don’t I don’t want to make that movie anymore. I want to make a really boring caper film. And so, you know, this car chases and shootouts and and again, if you’ve seen the trailer, you’ve seen everything. You’ve seen the giraffe, you’ve seen the flying, you’ve seen you’ve seen the shooting at the cockfighting chickens. You’ve seen all of this stuff so that all those bits are in there. But they’re all you go, oh, well, that must have cost a bit more money. And that must have gotten that big car crash that must have cost quite a lot of money and all those location and helicopter. So it’s it’s really peculiar what started as basically an incredibly crass joke, which is and here we go. Bingo again, dude, where’s my car? Seriously, dude, where’s my car? Which is that you wake up, where are we? Let’s retrace our footsteps, then spawned the same thing again. But Lauter has now spawned the oh, let’s not even bother. Let’s just do a bunch of car crashes and a bunch chase sequence and a bunch of shooting and a bunch of running around.

And every now and then we’ll throw in what we remember is. So I mean, many people have observed this. It’s less offensive than the other films than the second film probably. And, you know, it’s less racist and it’s less really obnoxious in it. But it’s also I mean, at least at least hangover part two, I got cross about in the case of Hangover Part three, I just got really bored. And I have the honest truth of it is that at one point I was leaning, you know, James King was here and it was like the room was silent, except this noise coming off the screen. I felt my head sort of I thought, I’m going to drift off and we’re in the middle of a car chase or a shootout or somebody hanging off the side of a hotel. And I’m actually going to slightly drift off. Then we were told at the beginning, look, you know, stick around to the credits, because this really funny gag in the credits and there’s an interview with the director who said, yeah, I in the credits, I you know, I had a go at the critics because the critics don’t get these things. They don’t understand, you know, hey, how could the same thing happen to the same guys another time? Well, we already stick it to them. And there’s a bit in the trailer that they’re really going to. So we go, well, we’ve got to stay, you know, because and I had run to this screening and certainly having come from Behind the candelabra, which I know, you know, we don’t want to, you know, but and Michael Douglas coming on the show and was fantastic.

Right. In which, you know, Matt Damon plays me apparently from the from the capital. I know. Did you see the pictures of Matt Damon in the Cannes Film Festival? Yes. Anything like you look like Michael Gove. Thank you.

But in the case of this. So we all sat there and we all sat there, we all sat and all the stuff happened.

And then the film finished and then the credits started and then it stopped. And then the post credits thing happened. And I think when out of there and at the end of it, you heard this sound.

And then we went to the music and then I came out and then I attempted to say something constructive on the blog, but it’s not even worth being cross about. And the one thing that’s quite encouraging about it is that according to the trades in terms of the money at stake, and it hasn’t at least in its initial day, because obviously it says that it doesn’t like it’s going to take anything like the money for Hangover part two. Now, obviously, it’s too, too early to to call it, but wouldn’t it be great if Hangover Part three just frittered off into the distance, if it was just kept away from the top spot by Great Gatsby, for example? I mean, it may have a brief moment in the sun. I mean, heaven knows there’s posters enough all over the place and like Fast and Furious, we’ve all been battered into submission by the trailers. But it’s it is it’s boring in a way that I almost wanted. I wanted it to be worse so I could be angry because at least being angry would be feeling, you know, what’s that Johnny Cash song? You know, I hurt myself today to see if I still feel. Oh, is that hurt? Yeah, that’s it, isn’t it? Yeah, is that a Nine Inch Nails song, a thing which then did Johnny Cash did a version of Fantastic. OK, well, they do a version of it in the in Hangover part three. There’s karaoke version of it. And it was funny because that was all I could think of for the rest of the film. I hurt myself today to see if I still feel because my head’s gone numb and I don’t feel anything at all.

Not and it’s I’m not angry. I’m not even disappointed. I’m just.

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