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| The Wolfpack delivers again! |
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| (Shawn Edwards, Fox News) |
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| Relentlessly wrong and funnier than the first. |
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| (Mark S. Allen, UPN-TV Sacramento) |
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| Epic. Outrageous. |
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| (Fred Topel) |
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| Hilarious! |
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| (Mose Persico) |
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| Hysterical. |
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| (Bonnie Laufer) |
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| Wild. |
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| (Mia Gradney, The CW) |
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| Brilliant. |
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| (Nik the Web Chick, Q102 Philadelphia) |
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| A double-shot of hilarity. |
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| (Sam Hallenbeck, NBC-TV) |
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| Pure comedic genius. |
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| (Paul Perrello, Metro Networks) |
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| I really enjoyed this movie; it really brought in what I was expecting. I feel like Todd Phillips really knew his audience, knew what they wanted and he delivered. It was one of those movies that sort of rehashed the first movie but unlike other comedies when they do rehashing of the previous movie on a sequel doesn't work. With this one it's almost like the first one but has a completely different story and I feel like you're going to laugh if not just as much in the first movie but more. I would see this movie again and again because I know I'm going to laugh every single time. |
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| (Brian Dulle, Washburn Review) |
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| It seems like the writers really put some thought into the plot on how to make it the same because I think that's what they thought people wanted and they were right. They delivered something that was recognizable to the first one but can also stand on its own and was absolutely hilarious. |
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| (Bryce Grammer, Washburn Review) |
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| It is loaded with gut-busting laughs. |
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| (Christopher Lloyd, Sarasota Herald-Tribune) |
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| Very funny, if not quite on the "pee-your-pants" level of the first film. |
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| (Chris Bumbray, Jo Blo’s Movie Emporium) |
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| The unexpectedly wonderful thing about this sequel is that it actually improves on the jokes. |
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| (Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York) |
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| The laughs aren't just staged, they're superlatively engineered... Now that we know them, the core characters are all the funnier; they've become an American suburban version of the Three Stooges. Cooper, the voice of exasperated sanity, plays Phil with great addled double takes, and Helms, as the frazzled, neurotic Stu, puts his rage and anxiety gleefully close to the surface. Even more than before, Zach Galifianakis is the wild card. Looking like a prison-camp mongrel with his shaved head, he makes Alan an overgrown damaged child with a screw loose: You never know what he'll say next, yet somehow it all connects. I wouldn't call The Hangover Part II a message movie, but it has a saucy, redemptive vibe: It says that sometimes the only way to grow up is to act as badly as you possibly can and come out the other side. And to vow — nudge, nudge — never to do it again. |
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| (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly) |
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| Sometimes you don’t want to mess with genius. The puzzle-piece structure of 2009’s The Hangover is what gave the film its momentum. Coupled with great talent and a funny script, it made it that much easier for a movie about three hungover dudes in Las Vegas to become the No. 1 comedy of all time. And who says lightning can’t strike twice?... There’s enough that’s different about this setup to create some fresh laughs... Ken Jeong makes his welcome return as Mr. Chow, this time not as an adversary but as a friend. Along with other great cameos, the film is an easy can’t-miss. |
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| (Heidi Pataland, New York Metro) |
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| Demented in all of the places that the original was zany… and every time it turned down a darker alley, I grew to appreciate the film’s courage more and more. |
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| (Sean O’Connell, Hollywood News) |
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| It's deja vu all over again in The Hangover Part II, only dirtier and more dangerous, if you can imagine that. |
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| (Steve Persall, St. Petersburg Times) |
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| The chemistry this trio has is special; the premise of the sequel seems worn, but the way they work against and with each other is what provides the pleasure. |
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| (Mary Pols, Time) |
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| Everything you loved about The Hangover's here, but now it's much, much darker. Like, characters-discovering-severed-body-parts dark... It's clear that Warner Bros. (and everyone else involved with the film) has a hit on their hands. The cast can hold their heads up high, knowing that they've delivered a second time around, and Phillips, Armstrong, and Mazin can pat themselves on the back for having the balls to turn in such a gloriously dark and twisted big, summer comedy. Go see The Hangover Part Two this weekend, my friends: you will not be disappointed. |
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| (Scott Wampler, Comedy Examiner) |
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| A slickly made pile-up of low level humour that consistently makes one laugh. See it on a Friday or Saturday night in a packed multiplex and you won't be disappointed... The makers are highly adept at tickling the funny bone so let's hope we see the wolfpack in further escapades. Somewhere in Europe next time perhaps guys? |
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| (Doug Cooper, Screenjabber) |
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| By definition, a sequel is just more of the same. In the case of The Hangover Part II, that's a very welcome redundancy indeed |
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| (Christopher Null, Filmcritic.com) |
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| Laff-out-loud raunchy ... delivers on its promise to not leave one sacred cow standing, one nationality or sexual designation unsullied. How many films can make that claim? |
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| (Glenn Lovell, CinemaDope) |
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| Is it as brilliant as No. 1? No. How could it be? But Hangover Deux still provides lots of fun laughs, and there's more Zach Galifianakis' twisted Alan. This is good. |
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| (Clint O'Connor,Cleveland Plain Dealer) |
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| The Hangover Part II is what you will expect. I don't think it was better then the first but it did a great job at being just as good. |
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| (Jolene Mendez, Entertainment Spectrum) |
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| This film is more fun than it has any business being. |
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| (Widgett Walls, Needcoffee.com) |
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| If the first film was The Godfather of comedies I'd have to call this once The Godfather Part II. |
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| (Michael A. Smith, Nolan's Pop Culture Review) |
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| Zack Galifianakis is as funny as ever, this time with a bald head. Maybe it’s all the time I’ve spent watching his Between Two Ferns skits, but I laughed harder at him in this film and he’s given more time to shine. One of his best lines is delivered with absolute deadpan: “I’m a stay at home son,” and the Los Angeles crowd I was watching it with lost the plot. The other actor that’s given more space, thank God, is Ken Jeong. He returns as mad criminal Mr Chow and steals any scene he’s in... The Hangover Part II may be formulaic, but it’s a formula that works. |
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| (David Farmer, 3news.co.nz, New Zealand) |
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| While not quite in the league of, say, The Empire Strikes Back or the film that it amusingly references with its title, The Godfather Part II, The Hangover Part II really is a sequel to savour... right to the bottom of the bottle. |
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| (Erin Free, FILMINK, Australia) |
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| Sticking with the same winning formula, Phillips has made a near carbon copy of the original. This makes it less surprising but still entertaining. |
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| (Matthew Toomey, ABC Radio Brisbane) |
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| What the film, excels at is suspense... It is less a buddy-buddy movie than a taut thriller with gangsters and car chases. |
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| (Sukhdev Sandhu, Daily Telegraph) |
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| Such is the genius of the original movie, it still feels fresh in carbon copy form with some more end credits guaranteed to have anyone who has just popped a boiled sweet in danger of laughing themselves to death. |
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| (Graham Young, Birmingham Post) |
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| Darker and meaner than the original but just as funny and horrifying. |
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| (Jane Crowther, Total Film) |
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