“The Hangover” confirms the saying, that a sense of humor is a sign of intelligence. Yes! The lower one’s IQ, the more things will make one laugh real hard. LOL, LOL, ROFLMAO.

Rating: 1 / 5

It’s about four guys who go out on the usual last chance batchelor’s party in Las Vegas and manage to accidentally date-rape drug themselves into total stupor. The groom-to-be disappears. The rest of the movie is spent following the remaining three guys around Vegas while they try to figure out what happened. Lots of slapstick comedy, lots of F*bombs, lots of guys mooning each other, one [. . . ] shot of a stripper (Heather Graham)getting set to breast feed the baby that’s in the movie poster, and then some final still photos at the end of one of the guys getting [. . . ] from a really ugly woman.

And oh, this isn’t a Three Men and a Baby tale – the baby was only a very temporary prop for a couple of slapstick gags and that one gratuitous breastfeeding scene. Then it mercifully disappeared from the story.

Hardly a family-friendly movie, needless to say.

What dreck. What an utter waste of 100 minutes of life. If there are chick flicks, this must be a “stupid guy flick”.

Addendum: So many nice, thoughtful people have left such deep and thoughtful comments on my review of this rather trivial movie that I thought I should clarify a couple of earlier points I made.

First of all, about that “hardly family friendly” comment. The promotional photo/poster and the movie trailers did strongly imply a “Three Men and a Baby” sort of family-oriented, if R-rated, comedy movie (definitely some false advertising there). So it was a bit of a shock to see that photo at the end of the movie of the ugly woman fellating Zach Galifianakis. I was sitting next to my two teenagers at the time and they were shocked. I have no qualms about letting my kids watch R-rated movies, and have for many years. In the past, depictions of [. . . ] automatically got a film a minimum of an NC-17 rating. I do not take my kids to NC-17 rated films, or to [. . . ] flicks. How this movie escaped an NC-17 rating is a question for the MPAA. Nobody ever watches NC-17 rated movies anymore (too much free porn kicking around I guess), and so obviously the producers of this movie must have greased somebody’s palms to escape this rating.

Second, I wasn’t sure when I first wrote this review that there was such a thing as a “stupid guy flick”. I kind of threw that term out there as a test. So thanks everybody for leaving all of your comments! You passed this test with flying colors! Now I know for sure there is such a thing as a “stupid guy flick”!

Addendum 2: Hmmm. . . did some more research to try to understand the obsessive, semi-psychotic fandom for this movie, which is beginning to surpass “Trekkie” geek levels. Here’s a few facts:

It was recently reported that 40% of households in America now have a female in the household (“the breadwinner”) who earns as much or more than anybody else in the household. For a number of years now, far more females have attended 4-year college than males – statistically females outnumber males by 2-to-1 in many universities. Several years ago, females began to outnumber the number of males entering medical school.

No, Toto, we are not in Kansas anymore, back in the days when men were men, women were women, etc. Something has definitely happened to the males of America, turned them from the responsible heads of households and father figures of olde, into. . . the sort of men depicted in this movie!

So, everybody, keep on posting those comments! Your love for this “stupid guy movie” is phenomenal. Without a doubt, this movie has hit upon a great truth as to what is happening in our country. . .
Rating: 1 / 5