Dissapointing.

Maybe I just expected a bit too much from this movie. There was a massive hype machine going for The Hangover. Everyone called it the funniest film in years, and then when I saw it I could only say "meh." The movie is more or less a basic bachelor party-comedy, but instead of using your average chronological narrative, it shows the morning after. This idea is hailed as a fantastic solution for the movie by most, but honestly, an average comedy is still an average comedy even if you mess with the narrative. If you have a cliched story, you should naturally have good dialogue in a comedy to save it, but pretty much every single word that comes out of Zach Galifianakis's mouth sound very much so as if they were planted there. None of it sounds natural, and his character is just over the top in every aspect. The other guys I don't even remember, that's how nice they were. You know there's a problem with a character-driven comedy when the most interesting part is the last 10 minutes. When they show the wedding and the pay-off to all the hardship before it, it's actually surprisingly enjoyable to watch. Unfortunately all the hardship they go through to get to the wedding only contains a few stock laughs and a tiger, which is not the greatest deal on earth.

6/10