I had several reasons for choosing today's fractal image. 1) the image, like the movie, is largely "blue". 2) the action takes place mostly over one night. 3) there's a wedding involved (hence the cross). 4) Robyn and I got "crossed up" at the theater. So--because of all that, I chose NightStar as the fractal for my review of The Hangover.-
The Hangover was expected to do OK but not "boffo" business at the Box Office. The movie turned out to get good reviews and was Number One for two weeks running (against some pretty stiff competition). Still, I knew this wasn't Robyn's kind of movie so I resigned myself not to see it. And then there was yesterday...
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We had Edwards discount tickets (bought Friday at Costco). We were planning to see the latest "Ice Age" movie so we headed off to our favorite theater at Corona Crossings. Imagine our surprise when we discovered the movie wasn't playing there! (Thank You Press-Enterprise idiots who didn't deliver our paper for THREE DAYS!) There was only one movie we hadn't seen that we could kindasorta agree on. That was The Hangover: we bought our tickets, went inside and hoped for the best. It has been out for almost a month but there were still a few other people in the audience. (This becomes important later.)
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The story is relatively simple: groom Doug Billings (Justin Bartha) goes off to Las Vegas with his three Friends--"smooth operator Phil (Bradley Cooper) whipped Stu (Ed Helms) and Alan (Zach Gallifanakis) who has a whole host of unfunny problems. Phil, Stu and Alan wake up in a spectacularly trashed suite to find Doug missing with them having no clue as to what happened. What follows is an extended series of painful vignettes that simply aren't funny.
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None of the characters are particularly likable and the jokes and situations simply aren't that funny. Yes, we cringed a lot--both we both managed only a could of very small chuckles. The language is VERY blue and the physical humor is crass and gross. (There was way too much "butt" humor at the expense of fat and old people--although being both things I may be particularly sensitive.) Ken Jeong (as Mr. Chow) played a character that I couldn't decide was more offensive to gays or Asian nerds. (IMHO both groups should sue him and the movie for defamation of character--it was that bad.) You know you're in a sad situation when the only (halfway) likable character is a hooker (played by Heather Graham). At least there was some half-way coute stuff running with the closing credits.
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Robyn and I loathed this movie so much we would have walked out half way through had we not had people on both sides of us). Still, we must have been in the minority: the theater was half full and everyone else seemed to be laughing a lot. I've enjoyed movies like Wedding Crashers and even Zack And Miri Make A Porno so obviously I'm no prude. Dunno what anyone else saw in the movie but I thought it was complete and utter crap.
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FINAL GRADE: F+
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