Movie Review: The Hangover 2

   By napierslogs: Stu is getting married. Along with Doug, Phil, and his soon-to-be brother-in-law Teddy, he regretfully invites Alan to Thailand for the wedding. After a quiet night on the beach with a beer and toasting marshmallows by the camp fire, Stu, Alan and Phil wake up in a seedy apartment in Bangkok. Doug is back at the resort, but Teddy is missing, there's a monkey with a severed finger, Alan's head is shaved, Stu has a tattoo on his face, and they can't remember any of it. The wolf-pack retrace their steps through strip clubs, tattoo parlors and cocaine-dealing monkeys on the streets of Bangkok as they try and find Teddy before the wedding. 
     Maybe the first The Hangover wasn't shocking enough for you, so what do you do? You make the second one even more insane.  Everything from the random monkey to the missing brother-in-law, this movie is more crazy.  
      This movie is entertaining, and does have it's funny moments. It's sort of like the first movie only with slightly different scenarios. I guess the saying go though, you don't leave a good thing if it worked the first time even at the risk of copy catting what you already did.  It also is way wackier than the first. Though the first movie had the guys doing really bad things, The Hangover 2 has them doing disgustingly awful things. If you get queasy easy then this won't be the movie for you.  
  Alan as always though provides the laughs where it's needed, and Stu's awkwardness fills in too.  It's got a nice bit of action in it, and I can actually remember most the movie so I didn't zone out too much. 
   It can be said that if you didn't enjoy the first one then you won't like this one. Otherwise, if The Hangover was enjoyable for you to watch there is no reason you shouldn't enjoy this one. There is no reason to get pretentious about a movie like this, and say you don't like it because it's too much like the first one. This isn't a series to be that uptight over. If the first one made you feel sick then this will induce vomiting.  If it can be thought of to be used as a shock to get a laugh then the makers of the movie use it. Las Vegas ends up looking tame compared to the antics available for someone to stumble upon in Bangkok. You can check out the movie at Amazon.