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When you have a million dollar idea, what is the best course of action? Exploit it. At least it seems like that was Todd Phillip’s plan for his wildly successful Hangover series.
The Wolfpack are taking Allan to Arizona where he is sent to enter a rehab facility to help him deal with the fact he has never grown up. While on the road, the men are run off the road by a ruthless drug dealer named Marshall and told they have 3 days to find Mr. Chow or Doug will be killed.
The Hangover Part 3 is different in style then the first two, because the Hangover title is irrelevant here because no actual Hangover occurs (at least not in the plot of the overall film). It is merely featuring the same characters from the first two, trying to track down Mr. Chow a known criminal and psychopath. Somehow it just fell flat, perhaps it was the more serious undertones most of which were not funny or simply it was just the fact that this movie was nothing more then a cash grab.
Cooper, Helms and Galifianakis returned for what is hopefully the last film in the franchise. There are literally no more Hangover stories that are worth telling and hopefully Todd Phillips realizes this. The “It Ends” tagline better hold true for a trilogy that started off strong and ended on such a bland note, but it will all depend on the box office.
There was very little about The Hangover three that was redeeming, except for maybe John Goodman, Ken Jeong and the small return of Heather Graham and the child from the first film. Jeong has always been the best part of the series, his enigmatic and zany Chow serving to be the point of ridiculousness of which the series bases it self around. Goodman proved to be an intimidating antagonist for the trio of lead characters, but was rarely overtly humorous and was a tad bit too serious for what was supposed to be a comedy film. The scene between Galifianakis and Melissa McCarthy was downright hilarious and very short which is why it stood as one of the best scenes in the film.
Going into this film there was very little left in terms of story telling and yet it somehow got stretched into a downright boring filmed, filled with off the wall antics that just seemed misplaced and misguided. Some of it was funny, some of it was awful. It was the way sequels tend to be, terribly erroneous with no spark of originality for it to be even considered. It was there, and that is really the only way of describing the way in which viewing this film felt. There was nothing legendary in this film like there was in the first film. The sad part of this film is funniest scenes in the film was a short two minute scene that appeared half way through the credits.
See it only because you have seen the other two, but this needs to be last film or the Hangover four will probably receive terrible reviews across the board.
6/10
