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The Hangover Starring Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Heather Graham, Justin Bartha and Jeffrey Tambor Screenplay by Jon Lucas & Scott Moore Directed by Todd Phillips website: www.HangoverMovie.com

IN SHORT: "As funny as it is rude," says the old fart critic . . . [Rated R for Pervasive Langage, Sexual Content including Nudity, and Some Drug Material. 102 minutes]

Speaking as one of the male gender, there comes a period in a man's life (at least in a lot of the guys we've known) when, freed of parental supervision and before the shackles of marital bliss, every other word in our vocabulary seems to consist of the four letter kind. Well, guy to guy it does. Put a good looking woman in the same room and politeness tends to run rampant. Those of varying sexual persuasions may adapt the preceding sentences as necessary. The point of it all is that for a generation or two of years, cussing is as normal and as ignored as, well, farting after eating corned beef and cabbage.

The Hangover is a lot funnier than that example, which is why we don't write comedy. Its concept is simple: what if there was a bachelor party so ripping raucous that no one remembers any of it the next day? Or, and this is the important point: no one remembers what happened to the now missing groom to be either. With less than a day to find him, bring on the comedy!

Doug (Justin Bartha) is the lucky man about to marry the lovely Tracy (Sasha Barrese). With his three best friends in tow, he intends to spend his last weekend of freedom in Las Vegas, tooling around in a classic, cherry Mercedes-Benz, gift of future father in law Sid (Jeffrey Tambor). Doug has seen what marriage has done to his best man Phil (Bradley Cooper), a depressed school teacher locked into a marriage which doesn't allow him to let off the kind of steam that Las Vegas will. On the flip side of that coin is his other BFF, Stu (Ed Helms). Stu is carrying his most precious posession with him this weekend. It is his grandmother's wedding ring, itself a survivor of the Holocaust, and soon to sit on the ring finger of his beloved Melissa (Rachel Harris) . . . once the weekend "in wine country up in Napa Valley" is over. "Why must Stu lie to his beloved?," you may be asking yourself. Because his beloved is a flat out rhymes with witch, who has got her man well whipped on a short leash. That's why. The final member of the party is the Doug's soon to be brother in law Alan (Zach Galifianakis). You know Alan isn't in synch with the rest of the band as he's got a hippie-ish beard and prefers a jock strap to good ol' tightie whities. To be nice, Alan is just flat out weird. Which makes him a  perfect fit for Vegas 

Stu wakes up missing a tooth. and married to a stripper/escort Jade (Heather Graham). Everybody else gets arrested for stealing a police car and/or eighty grand from Chinese gangster types and/or a tiger from Mike Tyson (himself). And a baby from who knows where. Usually it's Vegas which does the stealing. What a clever change of pace <vbg>

Enough yadda yadda. Just see the thing and laugh your butt off.

On average, a first run movie ticket will run you Ten Bucks. Were Cranky able to set his own price toThe Hangover, he would have paid . . .

$8.00

Funny with a capital 'fun'

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