The Hangover Part III (FILM REVIEW)
The Hangover Part III
Film Review
by Kam Williams
The Wolfpack Reunites and Returns to Vegas for Yetta Nudder Nutty Adventure
When we last left The Wolfpack, the
boys were over in Thailand for the wedding of Stu (Ed
Helms) and Lauren (Jamie
Chung).Of course, before the bride and groom could tie the knot (Justin
Bartha), the men
found themselves separated from Doug and suffering from amnesia following a
wild night of partying on the seedy side of Bangkok.
But that was two years ago and now everybody
has settled down safely into humdrum, uneventful lives in suburban Los Angeles. Everybody
except Alan (Zach Galifiniakis), that is. He went off his meds recently
which might explain such bizarre behavior as driving down the freeway with a
giraffe in a trailer.
Since the
42 year-old goofball is unlikely to get hitched any time soon, another bawdy bachelor party is not on the
horizon. However, when Alan takes a turn for the worse after his
father (Jeffrey Tambor) passes away suddenly, his pals stage an intervention and
decide to drive him to a mental health facility in Arizona for the help he desperately needs.
But before
they arrive, their car is run off the road and Doug is kidnapped for ransom by
Chow (Ken Jeong), the modestly-endowed, trash-talking mobster you should
remember from Hangover episodes I and II. He and his henchman (Mike Epps) demand
that the wolfpack retrieve $21 million in gold stolen from them by Marshall
(John Goodman), a ruthless rival who stashed the bars of bullion in the walls
of a mansion located somewhere in Tijuana.
That is wacky
point of departure of The Hangover Part III, a supposed trilogy finale which is
an improvement over the decidedly derivative prior installment yet still pales
in comparison to the zany original. At least you don’t develop a nagging sense
of déjà vu watching this screwball adventure, even if it isn’t exactly laugh
out loud funny.
The madcap
antics take Phil (People Magazine’s reigning Sexiest Man Alive Bradley Cooper)
and the rest of the road warriors south of the border and then on to Las Vegas,
the place where it all started, for another round of raunchy male-bonding
rituals. Stu stumbles upon his ex (Heather Graham) and Alan crosses paths with
the woman of his dreams (Melissa McCarthy), a big hint that the trilogy is
destined to be stretched into a fourple.
A nutty kitchen
sink comedy ending on a cliffhanger designed to keep diehard fans of the
depraved franchise in suspense about whether yetta nudder sequel might be in
the works.
Very Good
(3 stars)
Rated R
for sexuality, drug use, violence, brief nudity and pervasive profanity
Running time: 100
minutes
Distributor: Warner
Brothers
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