After being nabbed in Bangkok, Leslie Chow has escaped and
is now back at large. After staging an intervention for Alan Phil, Stu, and
Doug are on the road taking him to a clinic when they are attacked and captured
by a mean mother called Marshall whose stash of gold bricks has been stolen by
Chow. As Alan was the only one in contact with Chow when he was inside, the
Wolf Pack are charged with finding Chow and getting Marshall’s gold back within
three days or else Marshall will take the blow out on Doug.
It’s a good thing
that I went to see this movie without having any hopes for it at all. It’s the
law of cinematic series that one from the bunch is just going to be not as good
as the others. The Hangover Part III
wasn’t a Hangover movie: structurally
it was completely different from its predecessors and I felt that it really was
a classic example of producers milking good films for all their worth, like Pirates of the Caribbean. The tiniest of
details that we all missed or didn’t bother paying attention to in the very
first one suddenly become integral plot points in this movie and you really
have to sit there and think ‘man you guys are really clutching at straws aren’t
you?’
After being nabbed in Bangkok, Leslie Chow has escaped and is now back at
large. After staging an intervention for Alan Phil, Stu, and Doug are on the
road taking him to a clinic when they are attacked and captured by a mean
mother called Marshall whose stash of gold bricks has been stolen by Chow. As
Alan was the only one in contact with Chow when he was inside, the Wolf Pack
are charged with finding Chow and getting Marshall’s gold back within three
days or else Marshall will take the blow out on Doug.
You just can’t believe
any of the seriousness in this movie. Because the ties to the first and second
flicks are so flaky, you’ve just got to sit there and mindlessly absorb what’s
on the screen hoping violently that something really funny happens. This end of
the trilogy saw the characters and the relationships between them take a more
emotionally dramatic turn with the criticising banter between Stu and Phil
lapsing quickly, a stronger bond sparking between Alan and Phil, and of course
Alan actually being able to see that’s it’s really time to grow up. We’ve got
no impending marriage therefore, no bachelor party and hangover, but there are
multiple twists and turns of the plot. Unfortunately, there are no fun and
bizarre situations in this movie like there were in the first two and there’s a
greater sense of seriousness about the whole thing that’s fine, but just not
very in keeping with the stories and characters that we’ve come to know and
love. Even the second one had a good level of fucked up randomness.
Starring
Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Justin Bartha, Ken Jeong, John
Goodman, Heather Graham, Jeffrey Tambor, Mike Epps, Sasha Barrese, Jamie Chung,
and Melissa McCarthy, The Hangover Part
III was an all right movie but it wasn’t a Hangover movie. Filled with action, violence, friendship, drama,
and comedy it’d be fine if it weren’t part of a trilogy. I do feel that this
trilogy idea came after the first film did so well at the box office and people
in higher places thought ‘let’s get more money out of it and churn out two
more’.
The plot is jaggedly put together like a kindergarten collage, the cast
don’t insert themselves as much as they did in the other two, and the whole
thing took this rather deep and dramatic turn that is just unbecoming.
No comments:
Post a Comment