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83It's deja vu all over again in The Hangover Part II, only dirtier and more dangerous, if you can imagine that.
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83Here, as in "The Hangover," the laughs aren't just staged, they're superlatively engineered.
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80The chemistry this trio has is special; the premise of the sequel seems worn, but the way they work against and with each other is what provides the pleasure.
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80The unexpectedly wonderful thing about this sequel is that it actually improves on the jokes.
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80Manages to deliver more laughs than most of the competition.
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75Never as edgy as it imagines itself to be. Bangkok may swallow innocents whole, but director Todd Phillips has a lucrative franchise to protect, so the film's flirtation with the comic abyss gets compromised into something that looks more like a rock-solid mainstream comedy with a prominent dark side.
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75It delivers what it's expected to deliver, and that's likely to make it a success with anyone who laughed his ass off two summers ago.
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70It's still fun to watch, but the first one was better.
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67It's not that Hangover II is a notably bad movie. It's more that nothing in it seems to justify all the effort spent to add a new but nearly identical series of episodes to the original.
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63What seemed laugh-out-loud fresh in its unpredictable rudeness (at least intermittently) is now chuckle-to-yourself funny with about the same regularity.
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60That minute and a half of still photos packs in more dense, economical laughs than all the laborious gross-outs and chase sequences that came before. Maybe The Hangover Part III should consider restricting itself to the slide-show format.
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50The Hangover Part II isn't a dud, exactly - some of it is very funny, and there are a few memorable jolts and outlandish dirty moments. But it feels, at times, like a routine adventure film set overseas.
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50Hangover II marks one of the most derivative sequels of the year: The opening and closing scenes are taken almost shot-for-shot from the original. Just substitute Asians for Americans, gross-outs for guffaws.
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May 26, 201150Undeniably funny in parts, but the salacious spark and brilliant pacing of the original is off.
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50This dark and seedy follow-up to 2009's blockbuster comedy has a quite a retro message - suggesting that civilized men carry inside them a monster, a "demon" within, that requires constant taming.
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50How could a 2009 raunchfest that slapped a grin on my face I couldn't unglue degenerate into a cold dish of sloppy seconds?
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50Lost is the fresh, perverse, painfully politically incorrect R-rated pleasure that came when "The Hangover" ate up the summer of 2009.
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50Did I laugh? A handful of times. Did I cringe? For 101 minutes.
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50It's clear that Phillips is betting heavily on funnymen Jeong and Galifianakis to hide his creative bankruptcy.
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50A severe bout of sequelitis afflicts this eagerly awaited but only sporadically amusing follow-up.
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May 25, 201150This isn't even really a sequel to the hilarious 2009 comedy smash set in Las Vegas. It's virtually the same movie, just transferred to another continent and with the raunch wildly amped up.
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50I found this more elaborate, play-it-safe sequel far less fresh or funny.
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50Has a "been there, done that, jailed for it" feel.
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50Is this some kind of a test? The Hangover, Part II plays like a challenge to the audience's capacity for raunchiness.
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50The price for an invite to Stu's (Ed Helms) Thai nuptials is fewer laughs and an air of menace and mystery that won't endear Part II to escapist-hungry audiences.
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May 23, 201150The rote professionalism on display verges on cynicism, and despite some occasional sparks, this ranks as a considerable disappointment.
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45It's not that Part II is bad, exactly. If "The Hangover" had never existed, this movie might feel funnier than it does, if not quite as freshly hilarious.
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40This Hangover is a doozy, not quite as much fun (or well-written) as the original, but neither does it lack for lunatic plot complications that could only spring from the minds of writers Phillips, Craig Mazin, and Scot Armstrong.
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40It follows the same essential pattern as its predecessor, but the ingenious loopiness is gone; the mechanism behind it grinds instead of whirrs.
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May 26, 201140According to Phillips, the 'Part II' in the title is a nod to the second "Godfather," which matched the genius of its forerunner. Ironically, his own sequel offer is one you should refuse.
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40The funniest, most reckless moments in The Hangover Part II, the largely mirthless sequel to the 2009 hit "The Hangover," take place in the final credits.
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40Phillips sticks so close to the formula of his original that even the characters are given to saying things like, "I can't believe this is happening again."
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38If not better, a Part II always has to be bigger. In the case of The Hangover Part II, that means raunchier, nastier, darker. It also means much more predictable, which is ruinous.
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38Hangover II is more like a spitball meeting, a series of ideas that might, in theory, be good enough for a sequel, than it is an actual movie.
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33It's as if the filmmakers were hungover from the first film and wanted to make a violent action movie instead.
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25If The Hangover was a boorish blackout fantasy for our binge-drinking age, The Hangover Part II is something like the contents of a fraternity house's toilet the morning after an insane kegger-namely, regurgitated elements of a more entertaining prior adventure.
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25The Hangover Part II offers absolutely nothing new to fans of the first film. In fact, once the comfort of familiarity has worn off, they may well feel as baited-and-switched as the patrons of one of the sketchier clubs the boys visit.
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20What was fresh and surprising in Las Vegas turns rancid and predictable in Bangkok.
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May 25, 201120It's hard to imagine a more calculating, creatively bankrupt piece of real estate than The Hangover Part II.
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10It's a dumb, ugly and, most of all, painfully unfunny movie.
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