The Hangover Part II

Saw this movie a while ago but was prompted to write this review upon hearing they will be making a Part 3. While I really liked the first film, this sequel is emblematic of everything wrong with Hollywood today. It's lazy, it's rushed, it's lacking in wit or imagination and it was made solely as a cash grab. Judging by box-office receipts it was successful, but by any other standard, like taste, or creativity this is an abysmal failure. The old joke in the movie biz is the key to making a sequel to a smash hit is to basically make the same film. The makers surely took that sentiment to heart, for despite that it's a different wedding, a different locale and a different missing person, oh and there's a monkey instead of a baby this time, this is the same film!! Even if those involved had bothered to come up with something clever they still would have forgot one of the cardinal rules in making people laugh, comedy is less funny the second time around. Whats worse, it's evident that the studio had no clue why the original found such favor with the public and became the highest grossing R rated comedy of all time, so they just remade it save for a few alterations. A shame because the original is a classic comedy and by the time part 3 is over all of that will be forgotten.