Hangover part III: Can you hang this one please?

Hangover part III

Starring : Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Justin Bartha, Ken Jeong
Rated: 3/10
I  personally want Mike Tyson’s paaltu tiger (remember Hangover?) to come and make a meal out of these four friends. They suck as never before and they have committed the crime of turning a rip-roaring, never-before comedy into an extremely tedious soiree, high on nuisance, low on fun and completely devoid of anything close to being comic. If it was not so annoying, it would have been embarrassing to see these four going back to Vegas with no mirth in their baggage.
From the time the head of a hapless giraffe goes flying into the windscreen of an equally hapless motorist on a freeway, you know how cruelly the franchisee has ejected the advantage the brand ofHangover had inadvertently given them.
If Hangover II was a mistake, Hangover III is a blatant crime, a heinous one at that. Cannot be forgiven even if Doug has been kidnapped, Chow is in kill-them-all mode, Alan’s going to an asylum and the other two just are not doing anything much to save the situation. Bradley Cooper has his moments but he’s not what Hangover was ever about — it was more about the Alan kind of eccentricities and should have been as raucous a group as he would have wanted it to be — of friends who had scripted hilarity in their drunken stupor.
For God’s sake, even the prostitute here has reformed into a pregnant wife of a respected surgeon! Where’s the fun, or the logic behind such an indecent makeover? If it is Hangover, it has to be unstoppably crazy, not passive and unhappening as is the case with the last of the series.
Source: Sunday Pioneer,  June 2, 2013

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